Celtic could sign a “very exciting” Kyogo upgrade in £11m star

Will Celtic make an announcement signing this January?

Thus far, the Hoops are but to make any additions to the squad at Parkhead throughout this winter switch window, regardless of the actual fact lesser-spotted squad members Stephen Welsh, Odin Thiago Holm and Alexandro Bernabei have all departed.

Nonetheless, Brendan Rodgers is definitely keen so as to add some firepower to his ahead line, so can the Celts persuade one in every of Europe’s most in-demand strikers to return to Glasgow?

Celtic focusing on a brand new centre-forward

As reported by Mark Pirie of the Daily Record, Celtic might have a look at Brøndby striker Mathias Kvistgaarden once more having ‘been on the agenda’ in latest switch home windows.

Nevertheless, the Scottish Premiership champions face competitors from Bundesliga aspect Eintracht Frankfurt who, in keeping with a report by Florian Plettenberg of Sky Sports Deutschland, imagine he might change Omar Marmoush, who’s on his technique to Manchester City for a whopping £67m.

It’s believed that Brøndby worth Kvistgaarden at a mighty £11m, which might equal Celtic’s club-record transfer fee, spending the identical quantity to signal Arne Engles on deadline day final summer season.

So would he be price it?

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What Mathias Kvistgaarden would deliver to Celtic

Described as a “clinical, complete striker” by one onlooker, he definitely matches that fill contemplating the 22-year-old has scored 38 goals in 110 appearances for Brøndby, together with 14 already this season, most just lately notably bagging a hat-trick in opposition to Midtjylland throughout a thumping 5-1 victory in Herning.

Jan Witting Wen on BlueSky notes that Kvistgaarden has achieved the distinctive feat of scoring in opposition to each single completely different opponent he is confronted within the Danish Superligaen, showing prone to go away Brøndbyvester this month, however might Glasgow be his vacation spot?

Celtic supporters have been blessed to get pleasure from some top-class strikers over the past decade: Odsonne Édouard, Moussa Dembélé and Giorgos Giakoumakis to call a couple of who’ve come and gone.

Present striker Kyōgo Furuhashi is not unhealthy both, bagging 85 goals in just 164 appearances in hoops, however the Japan worldwide has been linked with a transfer away this month.

Major League Soccer had been compelled to apologise after accidentally asserting that Kyōgo had joined Atlanta United, when in actual fact it was his compatriot Cayman Togashi who’d moved to the 5 Stripes, with the league’s assertion saying “MLS extends its honest apologies to the impacted events”.

Nonetheless, on condition that the striker is now 30, if an enormous supply was on the desk, it could be robust for the Hoops to show down, so let’s have a look at how Kyōgo and Kvistgaarden examine.

By way of pure statistics, the “very thrilling prospect” – as described by one Danish scout – Kvistgaarden has been extra spectacular than Kyōgo for the reason that begin of final season, scoring extra targets per 90, registering extra assists and discovering the goal with extra pictures.

According to FotMob, Kyōgo has missed 17 large possibilities this season, no less than 5 greater than anybody else within the Premiership, regardless of being the division’s joint-top scorer, alongside Sam Dalby.

So, there certainly is not a Celtic fan on the planet that does not suppose that Kyōgo is an effective participant, with Ryan McDonald labelling him the membership’s greatest striker since Henrik Larsson, which is excessive reward, however Kvistgaarden is undoubtedly a top-talent so, if Rodgers can persuade him to signal, the membership should do all the pieces of their energy to safe the Danish ahead’s signature.

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