Celtic hit gold by selling Rodgers’s “extraordinary young talent” for £ 20m

Celtic’with a march to another Scotland Prime Minister The Parkhead title continued this week.

Tuesday night, the hoops turned away to Aberdeen 5-1 in Parkhead, Daizen Maeda Achieving the first and last goals of the evening, with Jot, Callum McGregor and Yang Hyun-Jun on the target between.

Celts therefore remain 13 points from Renjers At the top, on the eve of Saturday’s trip to St Mirren.

Meanwhile, a former Celtic striker who Brendan Rodgers He thought so high, he did not live to expect somewhere else, enjoying two years filled with trophies in Glasgow, but now he has disappeared in the football desert.

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Double Daizen Maeda on Tuesday took his up to 54 goals For Kelt, amazing 25 of which come this season, hence why the current right back Alistair Johnston Described the Japanese forward as “One of the players in Europe in the most serious forms.”

In the meantime, speaking on Premier Sports’ Scottish Football Social ClubFormer Hibs midfielder and Hearts Michael Stewart believes that Maeda “reinforced the level of” this season, becoming a “top class”.

So, let’s analyze how it is compared to Celtics’s second best center center in the last decade or something.

As the drawing table, a bit surprising, Leigh Griffiths boasts the best minute of a minute on the goal of any Celtic striker in the past decade, and also spent the longest time at the club.

One of the central attacks on that list, which has collected very impressive statistics during his stay in Glasgow, has not really experienced Hype since he was leaving for Pastures Nova.

Celtic hit gold by selling a “world class” striker

Just before his 20th birthday, Moussa Demmbelé joined the Celtics on a free transfer from Fulhambecoming gender First signing for the club Back in 2016.

Well, the Frenchman would make a pretty impression, he would immediately score key goals during Champions League Qualifications against Astana and Hapoel Be’er Sheva, before they have achieved the perfect hat-trick during their Old Firm Debia, Thumping 5-1 victory, becoming the first Celtic player to achieve Glasgow derby Hat-trick Of Stevie Chalmers 1966.

Then Demmbelé played and in the group of champions group, inserting a bracelet on the other day against Manchester Citybefore he also moved away in Borussia Mönchengladbach.

This makes him one of only nine Celtic players who scored three or more goals in one European Cup campaign since 1978, as stated below.

His manager Rodgers described the attacker as “Outstanding young talent,” Before he added he It has the potential to be a “world class”.

Total Dembélé scored a hit 32 goals During his first season in Celtick and then 16 times Next campaign, winning TREB, before it was sold to Olympia Lyonnais for £ 20mat that time a Scottish transfer fee.

He reached a distinguished 70 goals in 172 appearances For Lyon, spending a short period on loan at Atlético Madrid, just on which they are located seven times For Los Colchoneros, no match starts, but earning a La Liga winner medal.

After his contract of Lyon 2023, Dembélé Joined the Saudi Pro League Al -ettifaq.

There, to his release in JanuaryHis manager was former Rangers chief Steven Gerrard, who also played with the current Scotland International Jack Hendry, as well as former Liverpool midfielder Georgonio Wijnaldum.

Dembélé scored 12 Saudi Pro League goals last season, Only 12 players Managed more, network 21 times All in all, but they won’t add this number soon, At surgery On a ruptured Achilles tendon, she had suffered al-Obhdood earlier this month.

At the age of 28, the Frenchman should be in his premiere, but now he will be placed aside about nine months, so this is his Transfermarkt value He dropped to around £ 7m, was worth about six times at his peak, proving that Celtics had been right to make it right when he did.