Brentford have made a second bid for Celtic target Dara O’Shea and are confident of securing him from Burnley. The Premier League side have reportedly bid in the hope to lure the Irishman to London.
According to transfer journalist Graeme Bailey at HITC, O’Shea is wanted by Thomas Frank’s Brentford as they prepare for the new season.
O’Shea joined Burnley in a deal worth £7m last summer for their assault on the top division, making 37 appearances and scoring 4 times and providing 4 assists. However, the report appears to suggest that Burnley would be looking to make a handsome profit on the Ireland Internationalist. This would likely put him outside of the realistic transfer bracket for the Scottish Champions.
Celtic are in the market for a new left sided central defender to partner Cameron Carter-Vickers with Liam Scales and Stephen welsh playing supporting roles. The club appears to be active in offloading players, with Gustaf Lagerbielke, Maik Nawrocki and Yuki Kobayashi all available this summer.
O’Shea was a target but anything over the £7m mark would be unlikely for Celtic to go for given that they look to be run in the most sustainable manner. It is likely that O’Shea will go for +£10m and Celtic are always going to struggle to justify a fee of that size.
Would agree.
Personally wouldn’t have rated O’Shea so high in value myself, and was surprised that Burnley paid out such an amount of 7M in the first place imo?
Anyway, trying to get any player on a current existing EPL contract, was going to be a longshot for our wage budget imo?
Wasn’t a rumour that I really bought into in all honesty in the first place either, especially as Scott mckenna looking like a more realistic option imo?
And that never materialised either?
So would presume that Rodgers has identified a potential CB, still a guessing game as to who we might have in mind all the same imo?
Same old Celtic biscuit tin mentality , wee could actually afford 10million , with the unspent money wee raked in for Jota , even the Kieran Tierney money was never properly spent
We will sign some diddy on loan with hours to go in window, it’s the lawwell way
John A
Probably even that.
His performance on Sunday was a mixture of really good, ok and poor.
As honest as the day is long, never hides and has improves to minimise gaffes but, given his, and that position’s, prominence on the ball, we could be so much better.
Scales, sorry !