Brendan Rodgers has five Celtic transfer wishes this summer as Hoops star heads for the exit door


Brendan Rodgers is wanting to add to his squad in five position this summer transfer window, it’s been claimed.
The Irishman oversaw his side’s glory in the Premiership and Scottish Cup as a double was clinched. It wasn’t a plain-sailing season though and recruitment was one of the areas that was lamented, with some shrewd moves needed in the summer.
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Hide AdIt is claimed by the Daily Mail that there are five areas of the park the Celtic boss is looking to strengthen - goalkeeper, left-back, central defence, midfield and attack. A new number one is needed after Joe Hart’s retirement, and Greg Taylor is the club’s only senior left-back.
Centre-half recruits like Maik Nawrocki and Gustaf Lagerbielke have failed to make a sustained impact. Rodgers wants to bring in Paulo Bernardo permanently after the midfielder’s loan from Benfica and Adam Idah is a striker he is keen to land after a telling impact on loan from Norwich City.
At the back, Chris Mepham of Bournemouth is one that Rodgers is believed to have on his mind. There could be exits too and the same report states that Lagerbielke is ‘expected to go’ over the summer months. He hasn’t featured mjuch since his summer move from Elfsborg last year and watched a move to Italy fall through in January.
Nawrocki’s ex-club Legia Warsaw are claimed to have made a move to bring him back on loan, but the defender has turned that down. Yuki Kobayashi is another defender on the Parkhead fringes with an uncertain future.
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