Celtic urged to launch transfer raid on Birmingham City for star who'd solve key issue
The striker has been at Birmingham City and shone at Celtic previously.
Celtic have been urged to turn to Birmingham City if they want to alleviate their issues in the striker department.
The Hoops have found a cutting edge hard to come by and it’s partly the reason why Wilfried Nancy has been replaced by Martin O’Neill as head coach after just eight games. Celtic have been left to rely on Johnny Kenny and Shin Yamada as natural options after summer signings Kelechi Iheanacho and Callum Osmand picked up injuries,
Accusations of not replacing Kyogo Furuhashi, who left in January 2025, and Adam Idah have been lodged at Celtic in some quarters and it’s been a difficult 12 months for the former. Kyogo joined Rennes and after a calamitous six months in France, moved to Birmingham City, where he’s yet to score in the Championship. Hoops hero Charlie Mulgrew was discussing the forward who netted 85 times at Celtic on Go Radio and reckons his ex-side should put in a call to Kyogo, amid rumours of a return.
Kyogo return to Celtic verdict
Mulgrew said: “I would be trying to get Kyogo straight away. I've heard the rumours. If he's available. I would 100% bring Kyogo back. You know, he would get a player that's not scored loads of goals at Birmingham? If he's available, you get a player back who's happy, at home, and yeah, he's a proven goalscorer.”
The former defender also reckons for both sides of the Old Firm, exits will also be on the agenda. Mulgrew added: “I think the thing about Celtic and Rangers is getting players out the door as well. You need to get players on big wages that are maybe at their biggest move they've had or the biggest wage they've been on in their career.
“It's getting them out and the majority of the time you need to send them on loan with a percentage of their wage getting paid. It's hard to sell them on because they're not going to move somewhere for less wages. So that's the difficult bit. Both teams need to get players out.
Martin O’Neill on Celtic transfer business
“I think both managers would happily take in seven or eight players. They're probably not going to get that but I think they would. If they could get seven or eight out, they would take seven or eight in. That's not going to happen. So the the four or five they do bring in, they need to be the key areas, I think.”
O’Neill said of transfer business this week: "We definitely need to supplement the squad, absolutely no question about that. Shaun Maloney has been working in the background in certain things, I think he would get to know some players.
"It's up to me as quickly as possible, because eventually, I would like to be sitting here in front of you and saying 'listen, all these players are my choice', that's what I really like to do. I'll reiterate, we need the players in, and as quickly as possible. If the board were to listen to me, then we would have about 56 players. I will try and narrow it, we definitely know what positions that we need to strengthen in and that's what we're going to try and do."