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Player-turned-agent Danny Fox vows ‘I’ll listen to what my players want!’

Danny Fox works as an agent these days. If you want to know why, just listen to him tell the tale of his disastrous move to Celtic in 2009.

by
Chris Dunlavy
22 February 2026

Danny Fox left Coventry City to play for Celtic

Danny Fox works as an agent these days. If you want to know why, just listen to him tell the tale of his disastrous move to Celtic in 2009.

Back then, the 39-year-old was a young full-back in a rich vein of form for Chris Coleman’s Coventry City.
Marauding runs, spectacular free-kicks, bone-crunching tackles - Fox had the lot, and was eventually voted into the 2008-09 Championship team of the year.
Inevitably, interest followed. Several Premier League sides made inquiries, including Newcastle United, but it was Celtic and West Bromwich Albion who lodged concrete offers.

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