‘Deal in place’ – Celtic to sign Oliver Abildgaard from Rubin Kazan

Oliver Abildgaard will be the latest player to join Celtic from Rubin Kazan after Ange Postecoglou agreed to the deal to bring in the Danish international defensive midfielder from the Russian side where he will join up with former Rubin Kazan teammates Carl Starfelt and Sead Hakšabanović.

Like Hakšabanović, Abildgaard wants out of Rubin Kazan due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the 26-year-old Danish international will be anxious to get a move ahead of the transfer window closing.

Transfer expert Fabrizio Romano updated us on this deal, stating: “Celtic are now set to sign Danish midfielder Oliver Abildgaard. Deal in place, the agreement has been reached now waiting to sign contracts.”

19th December 2021; Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland; Scottish League Cup final, Hibernian versus Celtic: Mikey Johnston of Celtic on the ball

More to follow on this one and there’s plenty of action anticipated today with fringe players like Mikey Johnston, Liam Shaw and Scott Robertson all likely to agree on loan moves while there’s possibly going to be some bids for Matt O’Riley and David Turnbull for Celtic to presumably knock-back.

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The Celtic Star founder and editor David Faulds has edited numerous Celtic books over the past decade or so including several from Lisbon Lions, Willie Wallace, Tommy Gemmell and Jim Craig. Earliest Celtic memories include a win over East Fife at Celtic Park and the 4-1 League Cup loss to Partick Thistle as a 6 year old. Best game? Easy 4-2, 1979 when Ten Men Won the League. Email editor@thecelticstar.co.uk

2 Comments

  1. More good news if/when it goes through.

    On a different note, something popped in my head earlier about a possible new supporter tactic to try unnerve opponents, but it’d need the whole support to act in unison…humour me…

    Basically on queue(maybe flags in the standing section lowered for instance) everyone falls completely silent(or as close to it as we can get) for a few seconds/whatever, and then (flags up) erupt in a roar like we would if we’d just scored, followed by the usual singing, maybe the end to end Celtic-Celtic come on you bhoys in green chant…think it’d create a belter of an atmosphere in the moment and keep opposition guessing, particularly in Europe!?

    Might sound daft to you, smiling while i type it tbh, but…

    • *it was just after reading about Madrid players saying they expect us to be noisy, so they’ll be prepared for that, but this might be something they don’t expect or are used to?