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Kyogo Furuhashi is Celtic’s striker and he has proven his worth. The Japanese are in the first selection and rightly so.
Brendan Rodgers keeps saying he wants quality and adding a player as capable as Kyogo in the striking department seems the ideal scenario. We know all of this. We’ve been hearing it for weeks. But here’s the thing. Unless you are signing someone to take Kyogo’s place in the starting side, how are you going to convince a proven player with quality to come to your club to sit on the bench and play second fiddle? More pertinently, how much are you going to have to pay to get a guy who dislodges Kyogo?
It’s a dilemma Celtic have been facing lately. Fans are clamoring for signatures. Manager and captain Callum McGregor are asking for signatures, but I guess it’s a tough sell. Or buy them, if you prefer. There are 3 types available at this time of the season. The first ones are the ones that play outside of your skin. Everyone needs them and you’d better shell out the biggest prize if you need them. .
The organization of the moment is guys who don’t have games and need to play. The first question you ask them is: Why don’t you play?Why is your club letting you go? Aren’t you that smart?Of course, there are exceptions, but most of all, those who look for escape routes do so because they are not smart enough to sign up for their own team. I’ll leave you with Gustaf Lagerbielke, Marco Tillo, Yuki Kobayashi, et al.
The third organization is made up of borrowed children, strangers, and, as you might say, projects. Now you can get some smart ones. There are examples of plums in recent Januarys for Celtic. Let’s be honest, Reo Hatate was, at the time, a close project. He didn’t spend much time playing in his career, he wasn’t known by enthusiasts. here and for a minimal payout compared to his skill because no one else was looking for where Ange Postecoglou was.
Postecoglou had the advantage to start. Hatate was and still is brilliant. Matt O’Riley. No one saw him play for MK Dons either. Rodgers will now have to start the same way and locate this year’s versions of Hatate and O’Riley and not, with all due respect, Jeremy Toljan’s or Oli Burke’s versions. Nicolas Kuhn seems to me to be a commission. And Rodgers made it clear he was looking for quality, not assignments. Will the German then be a Daizen Maeda or a Marian Shved?
There are areas which are absolute priority. Greg Taylor is having to carry the entire load on his shoulders at left-back because Alexandro Bernabei isn’t good enough to replace him.
This position is essential. It’s no affront to Taylor, who continues to do the job, but at least he will be well supported and take a step forward if possible, especially with the Champions League in mind.
I’d also wonder if Rodgers might look to the opposite side and deliberate whether Alistair Johnston offers enough of a threat in the final third of the pitch for a modern-day full back. With two lefties in Liam Scales and Maik Nawrocki and two for the right in Cameron Carter-Vickers and Stephen Welsh, is a new centre-back even a priority? I’m not so sure.
The midfield is interesting. A month ago he was begging for a signing, but with Paulo Bernardo stepping up before the break and Hatate returning from injury, they represent some new additions for the second part of the season. Making long-term plans is, of course, essential. O’Riley is set to receive a significant offer this summer and Celtic want to be fit for his departure before that happens.
Ideally we would plan this replacement now because, as I have said many times, Celtic want to be better prepared for Europe next season. Frankly, the build-up to the Champions League this season has been a disaster. There has to be something Spending to make sure the name is earned because this race is firmly on and I don’t think the Rangers will die to die.
They may see a drop, but they may not go away, so Rodgers wants to bolster the drive. It doesn’t sound simple, however, Celtic have been dominating for a decade and want to convince players that they are heading to the organisation. stages of the Champions League next season. The striker is the tallest. I don’t think Oh Hyeon-gyu is that bad, and in many ways, he’s ideal for the fact that he’s young and accepts that betting on the time of Kyopass is his role in the team.
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But how do you convince someone to spend most of their life on the bench?For example, there has been talk of Lawrence Shankland. Money aside, why would he leave Hearts with the submarines and ruin their chances of participating in Euro 2024?
As many goals as he scored against Celtic, he didn’t get Kyogo out of the way unless the Japanese was injured or rested. Champions League? Cup finals? Games of the old company?, Kyogo began. End of.
It’s the job of Rodgers, Mark Lawwell and the recruitment team to find the answer. Unless you shell out big money to get someone to take Kyogo’s place, it becomes a tricky balancing act. And Celtic have to walk the wire carefully because a title’s at stake and there’s no safety net for second in Glasgow.