Celtic set to sign “fearless” star this week

The beginning of Celtic’s pre-season is now simply over every week away, with Brendan Rodgers busy getting ready his aspect for the defence of their Premiership title at Parkhead.

On Friday 4 July, the Hoops’ schedule will start, taking over Glasgow neighbours Queen’s Park at Lesser Hampden, earlier than travelling to Eire, Lisbon, the north of England and the north of Italy.

In any case that, Rodgers’ aspect will begin their season for actual, however what number of gamers can be making their debuts in hoops that afternoon?

Celtic’s busy summer time

Even by their very own often excessive requirements, it is set to be a busy summer time at Celtic, with loads of ins and outs seemingly within the pipeline. Kieran Tierney has already moved again to Paradise and there may very well be extra to come back.

Properly, in accordance Tipsbladet, as relayed by Sport Witness, Celtic are set to finish the signing of Benjamin Nygren within the ‘subsequent few days’, seeing off curiosity from Belgian giants Anderlecht.

Fabrizio Romano reported over the weekend that the Hoops can pay €1.5m (round £1.3m) to Nordsjælland for his companies, a charge that’s considerably decrease than his estimated Transfermarkt worth of £5m, given that he’s out of contract as quickly as New 12 months’s Eve.

Now, Nordsjælland sporting director, Alexander Riget, has commented on the membership’s want to signal a brand new attacker, main the aforementioned report back to consider that it will not be lengthy earlier than Nygren takes his depart.

Why Benjamin Nygren can change Nicolas Kühn at Celtic

Nygren has loved a breakout season within the Danish Superligaen, scoring 16 instances, incomes him worldwide recognition for the primary time, debuting in opposition to Luxembourg in March and really that includes in all 4 of the Blågult’s friendlies this 12 months so far, netting in opposition to each Northern Eire in Stockholm and when Sweden confronted Hungary on the Puskás Aréna earlier this month.

His new worldwide teammate Alexander Isak is actually a fan, labelling the 23 12 months previous “fearless”, including that he “has plenty of confidence” and “he did extremely properly”, having fun with taking part in alongside a winger who “is ready to present good crosses”.

So now, Nygren is seemingly on his strategy to Glasgow, however he may have huge sneakers to fill.

Certainly, in response to German outlet Kicker, Nicolas Kühn is ready to affix Bundesliga aspect RB Leipzig, with Glasgow Occasions including that talks are at an “superior stage” with die Roten Bullen set to pay £15m for his companies.

Because the graphic above signifies, solely Matt O’Riley, Jota, Kieran Tierney and Moussa Dembélé have ever been bought for greater charges.

This comes after Kühn loved a breakout season in Glasgow, described by Michael Shearer of Breaking the Traces because the Hoops’ ‘subsequent nice attacking participant’, but it surely was very a lot a marketing campaign of two halves for the winger, because the desk beneath outlines.

Kühn’s type fell off a cliff after the flip of the 12 months, scoring simply 5 objectives throughout all competitions following a brace in opposition to St Mirren on 5 January.

Thus, whereas some supporters are disillusioned to see him depart, maybe now could be the precise time to promote a participant who arrived for simply £3m a mere 18 months in the past, representing a 500% return on funding.

However, the important thing query now could be: will Nygren be an acceptable substitute?

Properly, Sakhu Mpofu of Complete Soccer Evaluation paperwork how the Swede is at his greatest when deployed as a right-winger, provided that he likes to ‘invert into the centre’, whereas analyst Will Glavin labels Nygren a “versatile​​​​​​​” attacker who possesses a “killer intuition in entrance of objective”, all methods one may describe the outgoing Kühn, underlining their stylistic similarities.

So, let’s check out Nygren’s statistics within the Danish Superligaen this season.

Because the numbers highlights, Nygren was a formidable performer throughout this most up-to-date marketing campaign, doing so in a division that, in response to International Soccer Rankings, is the thirteenth strongest on this planet, a whopping 30 locations greater than the Premiership.

Thus, whereas Celtic supporters can be unhappy to see Kühn depart, they need to most actually be enthusiastic about Nygren’s arrival, with the reported £1.3m charge showing to be an absolute cut price, so everybody needs to be eagerly awaiting his first outing in hoops.