Schmeichel playing through injury 'unfair' on Celtic, says McGeady
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Aiden McGeady has sympathy for Kasper Schmeichel as his career hangs in the balance - but says it was "unfair" on Celtic for the goalkeeper to play while injured.
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The Denmark international has revealed he might have played his last game because of a serious shoulder problem that requires two surgeries.
Schmeichel told CBS Sports Golazo that since breaking his shoulder on international duty a year ago, he has suffered "after-effects that have been hard to live with and play with".
He 39-year-old, who is out of contract in the summer, has missed Celtic's past five matches and faces up to a year of recovery.
Former Celtic winger McGeady told BBC Scotland: "My reaction was one of shock, to be honest, but a bit of sympathy as well because it's never nice to potentially be staring at retirement, especially when it's not in your own terms.
"Kasper in his first season at Celtic, I think he was fantastic. He was getting a lot of plaudits and a lot of praise and rightly so.
"This season he's come in for some criticism, some just, some unjust, but there was a bit of a drop-off in his performances. I think that was noticeable for everybody.
"I think probably what was on his mind was the potential of the World Cup and his contract's up at the end of the season as well. But everybody involved in football has played with an injury. Everybody's done it.
"But it does make you think it's unfair on the club itself and the team because you have a player playing with an injury for a long term and it's making a marked adjustment on his performances and it's very difficult for a club.
"Celtic are in a different position to what they've been in previous seasons, but you're needing every single player as close to 100% as you can get.
"You can't really be carrying any passengers and essentially we've been told it has been happening this season, which is a shame really because he doesn't want his career to end like this.
"I wouldn't want that either, but it might leave a bit of a sour taste with some of the fans and potentially some of the staff as well who might have been unaware of the extent of the injury he's had."