After last season’s continued successes for Celtic and manager Brendan Rodgers, which also included a majorly phenomenal run in the European Champions League competition and the riches that it brought us as a club when it came to sustainability and additional squad investment, it has actually been a pretty quiet summer at Parkhead.
52 year old gaffer Rodgers has done some business, and we have seen a number of departures including Scott Bain, Greg Taylor and Nicolas Kuhn, but on an equal front we have seen the arrival and spending on the likes of Benjamin Nygren, Shin Yamada and we have also quite easily convinced Kieran Tierney to return home and given the talents that those three have, there will be Hoops out there who feel we have won the jackpot at the best eth online casino, and in some ways we should take a break now as our luck will not get better than that.
The safe bet is that as our gaffer looks to reshape his squad and the options available to him, bring down the age a slight bit, whilst adding additional quality so that last season’s Champions League run to the Play Offs becomes a new, regular and consistent benchmark for us, that we will see at least a few more fresh faces arrive at the club before we reach the end of the transfer window and deadline day looms.
We all know how rife the speculation rumour mill is at the best of times, not least when the window is open, but as we head towards September with our domestic Scottish Premiership campaign having now begun and our opportunity to strengthen further begins to end, it is time to look at the rumours that just will not go away – and we have a few.
Go Ahead Eagles talent Jakob Breum remains one of them.
The 21 year old winger has long featured in the news headlines when it came to Celtic and Rodgers’ apparent interest in him, and we have even had reports suggesting that to date, we have had three improved bid turned down by his parent club as we looked to secure his services for the year ahead.
He has latterly come back onto the rumour mill because he recently missed the Go Ahead Eagles game against fellow Eredivisie side Fortuna Sittard, and naturally that meant that a fair few in the wider world of the media compared it to English side Newcastle United’s striker Alexander Isak’s current predicament, where amongst transfer interest from current reigning Premier League champions, it has been intimated that he has now gone on strike, has trained away from the team without the permission of his manager Eddie Howe, and things have now reached the stage where their gaffer feels like he cannot involve the Swedish international talent any further as they prepare for their domestic kick off in about a weeks time.
The truth is obviously different. Breum is nursing an injury and that is why it was announced that he would be absent from the game, and he picked the knock up during their defeat to PSV Eindhoven in the Johann Cruyff Shield, so despite the speculation he has remained involved.
The rumours suggest our last bid was for the sum of £3 million, but they continue to hold out for £5 million. If that bridge can be gaped, he may well be ours, but until then as much as a pull Celtic are for any player, ignore anything suggesting he is forcing a move in our favour.
He is clearly open to it, but thinking that is the case seriously disrespects him and actually makes him the kind of player we should not want.
