Nicolas Kuhn was written off too quickly, but he needs to start showing Sundays form on a regular basis. The former Rapid Vienna attacker hasn’t had the best of starts to his Celtic career and was written off by most already despite only joining the club 8 weeks ago.
The German winger has flattered to deceive and didn’t look like he was any better than the players that we currently have in his position.
But have we been too quick to judge him? We’ve got to remind ourselves that he’s just settling in. Plus Brendan Rodgers recently spoke of his fight to get back to his full weight after losing almost a stone during Rapid Wien’s winter break. That could all be mitigating circumstances in his failure to impress so far.
Kuhn looked a totally rejuvenated player in the 4-2 Scottish cup win over Livingston on Sunday. He was lively throughout and looked like a player who loves to entertain and take players on.
He’s certainly a player that we could warm to at Celtic Park, a bit like Yang. Both are similar exciting players and it would be great to have both on top of their game on a consistent basis.
That’s the challenge now for Kuhn. He’s got to perform on a regular basis. If he does that then we will have a great player on our hands, and a lot of his critics will be eating large slices of humble pie.