REPORTS are emerging that Celtic have stepped up their efforts to sign an alternative to Fraser Forster and have now made a formal bid for the AEK Athens goalkeeper and Greek International Vasílios Bárkas.
Exclusive @sportimegreece : #Celtic have made an official offer for AEK Athens' goalkepper Vassilis Barkas (3,5m. euros + 1 bonus). AEK rejected the offer, their demands begin from 7m. #Celtic #Celticfc #AEK #Barkas
— gian chorianopoulos (@choria80) July 22, 2020
“Long-time interested Celtic have submitted an offer of 3.5M + 1 bonus to AEK for Vasílios Bárkas (26), according to Sportime. The Greek club are hoping for 7-8M for their goalkeeper, who are close to a deal with Celtic on their side.” Football Grec France is reporting.
Intéressé de longue date, le Celtic a soumis une offre de 3.5M+1 de bonus à l’AEK pour Vasílios Bárkas (26 ans), selon Sportime. Le club grec espère 7-8M pour son gardien, qui est proche d’un accord avec le Celtic de son côté. pic.twitter.com/e0pGB0BsMB
— Football Grec France (@footgrec) July 22, 2020
AEK Athens are set to sell their star keeper in order to provide the club with much needed funds for their own transfer priorities this summer. Informed sports journalist Stephen McGowan at the Daily Mail broke the news at the start of this month that Celtic had enquired about Bárkas and had been quoted a price of €5million.
Celtic quoted £5m for AEK Athens goalkeeper Vasilios Barkas.https://t.co/CAhxMjH8i1 via @MailSport
— stephen.mcgowan (@mcgowan_stephen) July 3, 2020
If Fraser Forster wants to be back at Paradise for this season and behind then he’s going to have to make his intentions known to Neil Lennon pretty quickly or he could find that it’s Vasílios Bárkas who is going to be the first pick Celtic keeper.
The quoted bid fee of €3.5m with a €1m bonus for AEK (presumably paid if Celtic reach the Champions League) might be enough to get the deal done but there is bound to be haggling and further twists in this story yet. It’s never easy, is it?
UPDATE…
A proposal of €3.5 million from #Celtic for Vasilis Barkas has been rejected by #AEK. Technical director Ilija Ivić informed Melissanidis about the offer, he said "no", and set the starting price at €7 million
It remains to be seen if Celtic will submit a second offer pic.twitter.com/K50KF1gLe4
— Hellas Football (@HellasFooty) July 22, 2020
We’ll follow this story closely and see if we can get more information for you.
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