Celtic supporters could have been left feeling a bit underwhelmed after the deadline for the January switch handed on Monday evening with no new striker coming by means of the door.
The Hoops have been available in the market so as to add one other quantity 9 to their squad as a result of Adam Idah is the one senior, recognised, centre-forward within the squad, with Daniel Cummings and Johnny Kenny providing depth as younger strikers.
Brendan Rodgers misplaced an influential participant in the course of the window in that place after Kyogo Furuhashi accomplished a everlasting transfer to Ligue 1 facet Rennes.
The Japan worldwide, as you may see within the clips above, scored 63 targets within the Scottish Premiership throughout his time with the Hoops, together with ten this season, they usually opted to not exchange him.
Celtic have been reportedly fascinated with a deal to signal Brondby marksman Mathias Kvistgaarden, however talks broke down over the Danish facet’s valuation of the ahead, and the Bhoys didn’t discover a appropriate various earlier than the deadline.
The Scottish giants, as an alternative, ended deadline day with one new addition, on prime of bringing in Jota earlier within the window, as they swooped for Jeffrey Schlupp on mortgage from Crystal Palace.
Jeffrey Schlupp’s present market worth
The Ghana worldwide, whose contract with the Premier League facet is because of expire on the finish of the season, is at the moment valued at €6m (£5m) by Transfermarkt.
His worth has remained excessive regardless of his struggles on the pitch within the top-flight for Palace within the 2024/25 marketing campaign. He didn’t begin a single match within the first half of the season, with all 12 of his appearances coming instead, and the versatile ace didn’t contribute with any targets or assists for his crew.
Schlupp has a excessive worth, although, as a result of he arrives at Parkhead as a participant who has been an everyday within the Premier League during the last ten years or so, with 280 outings within the division for Palace and Leicester Metropolis mixed.
The 32-year-old star can, due to this fact, present useful expertise from having performed in a significant league for therefore a few years, while he’s additionally capable of supply worth by means of the flexibility he possesses on the pitch.
Jeffrey Schlupp’s prime 5 positions | |
|---|---|
Place | Begins |
Left midfield | 119 |
Central midfield | 83 |
Left-back | 75 |
Left wing | 17 |
Centre-forward | 11 |
Stats through Transfermarkt | |
As you may see within the desk above, the previous Premier League title-winner has the power to play in a mess of positions for Rodgers, though one principle is that he’ll primarily present cowl for Greg Taylor at left-back.
Alex Valle’s mortgage from Barcelona was minimize brief in January and that left a vacant spot in that place behind Taylor, which Schlupp may, now, fill.
While the Palace veteran can present high quality and expertise on a mortgage deal, which isn’t set to value Celtic thousands and thousands, the Hoops do have one back-up defender who they might remorse signing.
The defender Celtic should remorse signing
Rodgers returned to Parkhead in the summertime of 2023 to interchange Ange Postecoglou and the Northern Irish boss determined that he wanted to bolster his choices on the coronary heart of the defence.
Carl Starfelt accomplished a transfer to Celta Vigo in Spain and the Hoops reacted by bringing in three new centre-backs, Gustaf Lagerbielke, Maik Nawrocki, and Nat Phillips, while Liam Scales returned from his mortgage at Aberdeen.
The Scottish giants reportedly splashed out a major price of £4.3m to signal Nawrocki from Polish giants Legia Warsaw, probably within the hope that he would be capable to type a stable partnership with Cameron Carter-Vickers.
23/24 Premiership | Maik Nawrocki |
|---|---|
Appearances | 10 |
Begins | 7 |
Tackles + interceptions per sport | 2.0 |
Error led to objective/shot | 0 |
Duel success price | 57% |
Stats through Sofascore | |
As you may see within the desk above, the 23-year-old central defender solely went on to start out seven matches within the Premiership in the course of the 2023/24 marketing campaign, as Carter-Vickers and Scales finally turned the first-choice pairing.
Nawrocki was hardly horrible, profitable nearly all of his duels with out making any main errors, in his ten league appearances for the Hoops, however his shows weren’t spectacular sufficient to persuade Rodgers handy him extra minutes on the pitch.
Maik Nawrocki’s present market worth
On the time of writing (05/02/2025), Transfermarkt at the moment values the Polish flop at €2.5m (£2m) and which means his worth has plummeted by round £2.3m in simply 18 months at Parkhead.
He’s price method lower than Schlupp, who has not value the Hoops a switch price, and it seems as if Celtic should take a loss on him after they finally resolve to half methods, until there’s a miraculous turnaround.
Nawrocki is reportedly on a weekly wage of £12k – £624k-per-season – and which means he can have earned roughly £1.2m in wages by the top of this time period – his second yr on the membership.
This illustrates how a lot the Scottish giants have wasted on the 23-year-old dud, as they’ve spent round £5.5m on switch charges and wages, for him to solely begin seven league matches in 18 months.
The previous Legia Warsaw star has not made a single look within the Champions League or the Premiership, as Auston Trusty, Carter-Vickers, and Liam Scales have all been most well-liked forward of him.
Because of this, to this point, Nawrocki has value Celtic round £780k per league begin and his declining market worth means that they’re unlikely to recoup a lot of the cash they’ve spent on him again.
He’s a depreciating asset while sat on the bench, or within the stands, and by no means taking part in, which does make it odd that they didn’t enable him to maneuver on – completely or on mortgage – within the January switch window, supplied there was any curiosity in his companies.
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Total, because it stands, Celtic ought to remorse splashing the money on him for Rodgers again in the summertime of 2023 as a result of he has not confirmed to be a worth for cash signing, as they’ll hope Schlupp shall be within the second half of this season.
