As we predicted earlier today Nottingham Forest did return with a massive third bid for Arne Engels of £20m plus an additional £5m in add-ons, taking their valuation of the Celtic midfielder to an incredible £25m…
Yet Celtic don’t seem to be interested in selling Engels at this stage with ground still to be made up in the Scottish Premiership where Celtic sit in second place, ix points behind league leaders Hearts as a direct consequence of the dreadful decision by the Celtic Board to bring in Wilfried Nancy to replace Brendan Rodgers.
Ironically it was Rodgers who pushed for the £11m signing of Engels from Bundesliga side Augsburg with that record fee often being a used as a rod to beat the former manager with by those who clearly didn’t rate or didn’t want to rate the Belgian.
Yet Engels’ numbers at Celtic are impressive, a fact that a Premier League club has identified and seem determined to get their man. The English transfer window closes at 7pm so time is running out on this one.
Engels is more likely to move in the summer and Celtic can certainly expect to receive that kind of money in that window, which will certainly give the next permanent manager some working capital to pursue his own signing targets.
And as Conall McGinty pointed out after the second and before the third bid from Nottingham Forest for Arne Engels, we’ll hear no more about Engels being a waste of money. In fact Celtic will easily double their investment, but no-one will apologies or thank Brendan Rodgers for his shrewd judgement in bringing Arne Engels to Celtic.
So let me get this straight, when Brendan was at the helm and Celtic signed players who ended up below par, they were signed by the board but Engels (and all his mediocre performances) was actually signed by Brendan now that a PL club are throwing some of their sofa change at him?
The fact of that matter is this, Engels is an average footballer, much like the vast majority of mid-lower table teams in the PL but, average footballers can be bought a lot cheaper from north of the border than they can from the continent. NF are not interested in his talent, they are interested in his talent:cost ratio.
You’re really struggling to justify your comments now.
Give up, you’ve lost.