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Celtic have been told that Brondthrough will have to be “impressed” with a bid for Mathias Kvistgaarden if they need to sell director of football Carsten V. Jensen.
Brendan Rodgers is looking for reinforcements amid the Hoops’ faltering defence for the Scottish Premiership’s name, with a new striker highlighted as a must-have by the manager, with Kyogo Furuhashi and Oh Hyeon-gyu set to leave for the Asian Cup in January. Danish striker Kvistgaarden was on Celtic’s radar last summer with a £4. 1m offer rejected for the 21-year-old, and the Hoops look set to reignite their interest next month.
But Brondthrough seems keen to toy with the sale of Kvistgaarden, with Jensen insisting they are in no hurry to sell key club stars amid a three-way naming battle with Midtjylland and FC Copenhagen. He was asked via Tipsbladet about a possible sale of Kvistgaarden in the January window. Jensen replied: “The stated purpose is to fight for the championship as much as we can and we need to push forward until the end. So, it’s not so smart in this context to send your most productive players back and put cash in the bank. .
“We’re handling this from an angle that says we want to remain the united organization. But needless to say, we will also have to be guilty in controlling the company. If you’re impressed by something, I want to communicate it and but that’s not the expectation or the technique at all, and it’s also with the help of the board that we stay united in this team and in further progression over the winter, and then we’re going to see how far we can go in the spring.
“This is what we want, this is what we want and this is what we are looking for. We hope and we will come out the other side of January, strengthened through a smart start, and that it will be more or less one (a) same group, minus some changes for the players who want to swoon and get some minutes, and then maybe a single player who has the most productive quality in the team can be added.