Former Celtic defender Dedryck Boyata has finally been released by Club Brugge...after he cost them a staggering £190,000 per match.
The 34-year-old Belgian stopper was a guest in November for the Champions League clash between his former club Celtic and Club Brugge and even did the half time draw at Parkhead.
He lashed out at his treatment at Brugge, where he compared himself to a 'hyper-contagious disease' after he was banished from the first team and told to train with the kids.
He made the last of his 26 appearances at Brugge 11 months ago and when his transfer fee from Hertha Berlin and his bumper salary was added up, it was worked out he cost the club an eye-watering £190,000 for every game he completed.
Boyata said ahead of the Celtic game: "Sometimes I train alone, sometimes with the reserves and regularly I get a program that I have to do at home - away from the training centre. I mainly struggle with the fact that I am isolated from everything and everyone.
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"They wanted me to change in a small room where the cleaning crew keeps their stuff. I refused. I pick up my clothes there and just do it in the dressing room.
"And because I'm only allowed to train in the afternoon, I can't eat at the club anymore. That way they want to make sure that I have no contact with my teammates in any way.
"It's like I have a hyper-contagious disease."
Boyata made 135 appearances in a successful three-and-a-half year spell at Celtic and left on a free five years ago.
