For Celtic, the defending Scottish Premiership winners, the summer is already promising to be quite significant.
With Joe Hart’s impending retirement, Brendan Rodgers will require a new goalkeeper. The team is also without natural left-sided full-backs as a result of Alexandro Bernabei’s departure. Adam Idah, a Norwich City loanee who is making an impression while on loan, is another player whose future is now up in the air.
Additionally, Celtic could have to look elsewhere for a central midfield player. Especially if Matt O’Riley, who is highly regarded by many, is offered a deal that The Hoops just cannot reject and Paulo Bernardo rejoins Benfica.
If O’Riley departs, though, Ardon Jashari won’t be around to fill those responsibilities. With two months of the season remaining, a player who has been linked to Celtic on and off for more than a year suddenly seems to have a deal finalized.
Jashari will move from FC Luzern in his home Switzerland to Belgian powerhouse Club Brugge, according to Het Nieuwsblad and Het Laaste Nieuws.
Apparently paying more than £4 million for the Luzern captain, Brugge are eager to appoint Manchester United great Ruud van Nistelrooy as their new head coach. It is anticipated that sooner rather than later, Jashari will make his public debut at the Jan Breydel Stadium.
That puts an end to any speculation that Jashari, who played for Switzerland in the World Cup in Qatar and whose box-to-box skills earned him comparisons to Jude Bellingham, might be considered again by a Celtic team whose hiring practices have drawn harsh criticism ever since Rodgers returned.
In recent transfer windows, Jashari, who is still only 21 years old, has also been connected to Leeds United and Arsenal.
Jashari is a leader because of his disposition. Scout Oliver Zesiger compares the young player to former Arsenal captain Granit Xhaka of Bayer Leverkusen, saying, “You rarely see that at this age.”
Granit has greater physical strength. However, the ball can be moved forward by both players. The two are very adept at reading a game and recovering possession of the ball. He will undoubtedly wind up at a team in one of the top five leagues in Europe if things keep going this way.
Perhaps that trip begins with a stay at Club Brugge.
Meanwhile, HITC is aware that Coaimhin Kelleher of Liverpool is Celtic’s top target in the goalkeeping position. The Glasgow giants have also observed Ugurcan Cakir, the skipper of Trabzonspor.
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