£5 million for Kone, Celtic should be all over that…
Richard Kone of Wycombe Wanderers looks on during the Sky Bet League One match between Wycombe Wanderers FC and Barnsley FC at Adams Park on January 28, 2025 in High Wycombe, England. (Photo by Cameron Howard/Getty Images)
A player whose name has been mentioned on the Celtic transfer rumour mill several times in recent weeks now has had a £5 million price tag placed on his head, and it’s a deal we should be all over.
The player in question is Wycombe Wanderers striker Richard Kone who has been the subject of two recent failed bids from English championship clubs, and it’s a deal we should be looking to make as he aims to to bolster our attacking options ahead of the new campaign.
Kone scored 18 goals league goals on his way to being named League One Player of the Year and Leicester and Swansea are among the clubs pushing for his signature. Where are Celtic?
The price tag has been set at £5 million for an up and coming talent is nothing these days, and the young Ivorian is a player who would fit our transfer strategy, but more importantly he would inject some much needed quality into our squad.
Matt O’Riley of Milton Keynes Dons gestures during the Sky Bet League One match between Gillingham and Milton Keynes Dons at MEMS Priestfield Stadium on March 02, 2021 (Photo by James Chance/Getty Images)
Some may scoff that he plays in England’s third tier, but so did Matt O’Riley when we came knocking and look how that turned out!
A certain Gary Hooper also made his name in the lower reaches of English football before being brought north by Neil Lennon, and was and still is highly regarded and respected in the eyes of the Celtic supporters due to his goalscoring exploits.
Gary Hooper scored twice during Celtic’s win over Dundee United at Celtic Park on 22 January 2013. Photo Vagelis Georgariou
It’s a deal that is well within our reach, but then again the way our club operates in recruitment it could all prove too much…
It’s only modest ambition this one but is that still too much for the Celtic Board to sanction?
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The board are keeping the cash , the fans need to stop giving them cash it’s the only thing thatcwill stop this madness of corporate greed
Every man and his dog knows we need proper replacements for Kyogo and Kuhn yet here we are again with Lawwell and his Board – quick to sell off players and loan them out but as ever, dragging their heels until the last minute to reinvest any significant amount of the large sums accumulated.
Boasting about how much is in the bank, then offering paltry amounts of £1/£2m for players valued at £5m and being rejected out of hand, looks like they are not really serious about bringing in the quality we need to replace the goals scored by those two.
What is serious, is that it’s beginning to look like, once again, Rodgers is being undermined by the same individual who did so last time – and we all know who that is.