Ally McCoist believes Celtic could be the ideal home for Raheem Sterling to reignite his career.
The 30-year-old currently finds himself out of the first team picture at Chelsea.
Enzo Maresca has forced the former Manchester City and Liverpool star to train with the club's youths away from his fellow teammates, with the attacker deemed surplus to requirements.
Sterling has two more years remaining on his long-term contract at Stamford Bridge, which is believed to be worth in excess of £300,000 per-week.
So, if Sterling were to move from Chelsea in a bid to get regular football once more, he would have to cut his losses.
Celtic have been linked with the one-time England international given Brendan Rodgers worked with him at Anfield.
And McCoist could see it working, if the player is willing to take a financial hit.
He told football betting site: "You'd have to say his parent club would still shoulder the vast majority of his wages because there's absolutely no way that Celtic could compete or would want to pay that level of wage.
"It's an interesting one, though, because the one thing you have to say is, for Raheem Sterling, what does he want to do? I think the ball's in his court as well, as much as anything.
"He probably understands and realises he's not going to get that wage at another club. So, he's going to have to take a hit somewhere along the line. It's just how much he wants to take a hit and where he wants to take that hit. But that hit is going to have to be taken, no doubt about it.
"It'll be an opportunity to kickstart his career again in Scotland, because it's a shame. He looks lost. He certainly looks unrecognisable to the Raheem Sterling that we knew back in the day at Liverpool and obviously Chelsea and things like that when he was firing on all cylinders.
"It seems like yesterday, the talk was of him getting back into Gareth Southgate’s squad. But again, for whatever reason, I don't know what it is, lack of confidence or lack of form, he's dipped and he's going to have to do something.
"And I don't care what they say, they're massive, massive clubs in Glasgow. And if you can come up there and hit the ground running, then your status within the city and your status within the club will get you back pages again, where you want to be.
"What you're doing on the pitch, you're in the spotlight, you're seriously in it. You're under the spotlight here when you're up in Glasgow. And it's something I think he could handle fine. I think he could handle the football fine.
"But as I say, it's just how he wants to go about it. But he's going to have to get back playing somewhere soon."
