Celtic are reportedly considering three players that featured in a Europa Conference League qualifier early this week. The Scottish Champions are in the market for attackers and it is reported that Celtic’s Head of Football Operations, Paul Tisdale, personally attended at the game between Hammarby and Charleroi to scout possible transfer targets.
As reported by Sun Sport, Celtic are looking to strengthen in the final third and require reinforcements as soon as possible.
The report states that Tisdale watched Swedish U21 striker Jusef Erabi, Nikola Stulic and winger Parfait Guiagon.
Erabi is 22 and has scored 29 goals and laid on 4 assists in 93 appearances for Hammarby. The player is valued upwards of £4m and is known for his strength. Celtic have Adam Idah as the first choice striker but the manager has previously spoken about having two first pick strikers and then a third, development attacker supplementing the strikers.
Stulic, 23, is a Serbian centre forward for Charleroi. The striker has made 56 appearances for the Belgian side, finding the net 18 times and adding 3 assists. Guiagon, meanwhile, is attracting interest too. The Ivory Coast winger has made 70 appearances in which he has scored 13 times and assisted on 13 occasions.
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There have been a number of players linked with Celtic this summer with the club said to be ‘considering’ and ‘assessing’ options. However, supporters are becoming increasingly agitated due to the proximity of the UEFA Champions League Playoffs. The reality is that the squad is weaker than it was last season owing to Kyogo and Nicolas Kühn being sold. The backline and the midfield is arguably stronger with the additions of Kieran Tierney and Benji Nygren. However, the front line looks weak in its current form with only Callum Osmand and Shin Yamada arriving. Although, it remains to be seen what role the manager envisages for each of these players.
Looking around for cheaper options
Utter shite,!
No body can deal with or trust this board.
Tisdale looks like a wide boy !
Hey, come on now. Tisdale is not a wide boy. We have to admit that Rodgers may very well be a superb coach who can improve a player. However, he always wants to pat far too much for below average players, such as Idah, who could not score goals at Norwich in the English Championship.
If Idah is our first choice striker, God help us. Shin is a far better player. A far better player who is in the Japanese squad. You have to ask yourselveswould Idah get into that squad and the answer is an emphatic NO!!!
We need another striker to help Shin and the development striker will be the lad from Fulham whose name I forget, just now. We can then sell Idah for what we can get for him. With luck, around eight million, though in all honesty, he is worth about two[
Rodgers wants the Irish job in the future. That is why he is favouring players such as Liam Scales, who for sure is a real tryer and of course the blessed Idah. I say this as an Irish citizen. The board could always sack Rodgers and get someone in who is not so damned arrogant and who will stop the politics.
Sure, we want a manager who will push us forward, higher and higher, but spending big money on less than average players is not the way forward. The supporters would be screaming at the manager and the board for being so stupid and rightly so, if this turned out to be the case..
Are you seriously telling me that Rodgers was right to insist on paying over twenty million for Engels and Idah. Engels is, perhaps a player who will yet prove his doubters wrong but the money we paid was over the top and Rodgers is to blame for that.