Celtic are preparing a strong financial offer to sign Brøndby midfielder Benjamin Tahirovic this summer, with FC Porto and Rangers both circling – and the Hoops looking to move first and move decisively.
As reported by MSN Sport, Celtic are readying a serious financial package to land Tahirovic from the Danish Superliga side, with the move potentially representing the first concrete summer business of the window. The report describes the offer as ‘strong’, which in transfer terms typically signals the club are prepared to go beyond the baseline and make a statement of intent to both the selling club and the player’s camp.
Tahirovic is a central midfielder operating for Brøndby, one of Scandinavia’s most reliable production lines for export-ready talent. Celtic’s recruitment team has reportedly been drawing up summer targets since January, so this is no last-minute scramble – it’s part of a longer planning cycle that has been building quietly in the background for months.
The competition is real and worth taking seriously. Porto are a serious European club who can offer Champions League football and a Portuguese market that has a proven track record of developing young talent. Rangers, frankly, are the less credible threat – but a domestic rival snapping up a target we’ve identified would sting regardless of the fee involved. Speed matters here. If the offer is structured right and Celtic move quickly, they can make this one before it becomes a bidding war.
I’d be honest with you, though – we’re still in the early stages. No formal bid has been confirmed as submitted yet, and the language of a ‘strong financial offer being prepared’ is the kind of phrasing that tells you the approach is imminent rather than done. This is the stage where agent conversations happen, where contract structures get floated, and where clubs often quietly back away if the numbers don’t stack up. That’s worth keeping in mind before we get too far ahead of ourselves. What it does tell us, however, is that our recruitment team are not sitting on their hands – and after a summer in which we need genuine midfield reinforcement, that matters. You can see the broader shape of our summer recruitment strategy taking form, and Tahirovic appears to be very much part of that picture alongside other midfield targets currently being assessed.
Celtic moving early, backing their interest with a strong financial package, and going toe-to-toe with a club the size of Porto for a target – that’s the version of this club we want to see, folks. Let’s get it done before someone else does.
Conor Spence