With lower than two weeks till the top of the summer season switch window, Celtic have now reportedly reached an settlement in precept to signal an attacking goal for Brendan Rodgers.
Celtic nonetheless chasing reinforcements
Even after one other flawless begin to the Scottish Premiership marketing campaign, defending champions Celtic are nonetheless on the hunt for reinforcements this month. The Bhoys shall be properly conscious of simply how vital it’s to construct while on prime and although the likes of Benjamin Nygren characterize that ambition, there’s nonetheless room for extra contemporary faces.
“In fact, we have to push. We have to all the time, I stated it earlier than the opposite week, I need Celtic to dwell in the absolute best place it may be on and off the pitch.
“And that’s not solely gamers, that’s about infrastructure, that’s academy, that’s every thing to do with Celtic, getting at the perfect operation that we probably can. And I do know for that, that may all the time be about success on the pitch. Whenever you get success on the pitch, every thing else flows from that.” (Rodgers on incomings)
One of many gamers who has discovered himself on Celtic’s radar as of late is Jamie Vardy. The previous Leicester Metropolis ahead thrived underneath Rodgers on the King Energy and will now reunite along with his outdated supervisor now that he has left the Foxes as a free agent.
Even at 38 years outdated, Vardy would nonetheless have loads to supply the present Celtic aspect each on and off the pitch. Simply final season, the Premier League veteran scored 10 targets in all competitions as a struggling Leicester aspect suffered relegation. Any issues that he would not have the ability to depart his mark on the Scottish Premiership ought to, subsequently, be put to relaxation.
Vardy’s not the one goal on Celtic’s radar, nonetheless, and it seems as if they’re now edging nearer and nearer to lastly welcoming a long-term goal.
Celtic attain settlement in precept for Balikwisha
Based on Sacha Tavolieri, Celtic have now reached an settlement in precept to signal Michel-Ange Balikwisha from Royal Antwerp. As ever with the winger, although, the deal is way from easy. As per Tavolieri, although that settlement has been reached and a medical was scheduled, there stays inner points that want fixing earlier than Balikwisha can turn into a Celtic participant in the end.
It is considerably of a groundhog day for Celtic followers, who have been denied the prospect to welcome Balikwisha final season when he suffered an premature harm.
Now, one yr on, it seems as if there are different points standing in the way in which of any deal turning into official. Whether or not that lastly adjustments within the subsequent 11 days is the large query.