Celtic Often praised for his transfer strategy at Parkhead, actually rated it as the best operating club in the UK Fair Game Index last year.

Over the past decade or so, the hoop has Large profits With people like Ange Postecoglou, Brendan Rodgers and Neil Lennon for sale such as Matt O’RileyMoussa Dembélé, Kristoffer Ajer, Virgil Van Dijk There are many others.

Kyogo Furuhashi is probably the most famous example lately. A scorer 12 goals for Kyle Featured Lottery this semesterHe left in January To £10 million.

But, especially a forward, the Celtics have to figure out that he has now surpassed that man.

How the Celtics deal with Kyogo’s departure

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The striker’s red form continues on weekends, fighting The Heart of Middle Lothianto reach 30 goals, Described by previous Hebrews The heart midfielder Michael Stewart is the “top class”.

But other Celtic strikers have not reached their closest heights except Maeda, as outlined by the table below.

Nicolas Kühn’s form is particularly disappointing, considering he scored 14 in the first half of the campaign, of course he is a Celtic player this season, but now only scores twice since January 5. That is to say, he looks good and can replace Kyogo’s output in time.

Adam Idah At the same time, despite being signed The huge fee is £9.5 million from Norwich Last summer.

So if they could complete a deal to sign a “world-class” forward a few years ago, could they solve the central problem of basketball? He is better than JD.com now.

World-class forward Celtics almost signed

Back in the summer of 2020, the Celtics almost signed Ivan Tony from Peterborough Unitedthen manager Neil Lennon Later admitted“We’re close to getting him…I’m really interested”.

Tony He said it himself“I went there…I was actually on the training ground” Lennoxtown, which is the distance to the move.

Instead, Tony joins Brentford £5 millionin his first season launch of the Bee Promotion, completed EFL Champion‘ Top scorerBefore the club scored 36 goals in the Premier League.

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manager Thomas Frank Describe him as “World-class” before selling to England International Saudi Professional League Last summer, the side of Al Ahli, the cost The reported fee is £40 million.

In the top flights in Saudi Arabia, only Cristiano RonaldoAbderrazak Hamdallah and Marcos Leonardo A goal has been scored Better than Toney this season, so let’s evaluate the season statistics since he almost signed the Celtics.

Ivan Toney is in the division during the 2022/23 Premier League season The third highest scoreronly after Erling Haaland and Harry Kane, although the following campaigns were severely hampered His eight-month ban Violation of FA betting regulations.

Now in Saudi Arabia, Tony and Middle East football expert Uri Levy Described his Al Ahli performance as “Great”, advocates that he accepts the England recall.

Matthias Jaissle’s team has scored 22 goals so far this season, meaning he scored goals while also achieving higher levels in the season’s goals by Adam Idah (14) and Nicolas Kühn (18). Global Football Ranking It is believed that the Saudi professional league will become the 31st strongest split in the world. Scottish Premier League Decline 34th.

So, while they continue to do domestic dominance, it’s hard to say that the Celtics won’t be stronger in Toney’s offense.

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