J-League rumour site names the fee Celtic will pay for Yosuke Ideguchi

Yosuke Ideguchi appears to have sealed his move to Celtic for a fee of £840,000. 

The claim comes from a J-League transfer rumours site who had picked up on the story on December 9. 

With 10,500 followers them while following just 73 Twitter accounts @jleague_rumour seems to have found its niche in what can sometimes be a hysterical market.  The tweets are all in Japanese.

TRANSLATION: 

Midfielder Yosuke Ideguchi to full transfer to Celtic. The transfer fee is estimated to be more than 130 million yen. 

Ideguchi has already had a spell in Europe but failed to make any impact with Leeds United where he was sent out on loan  to Leonesa in Spain and Gruether Furth. 

While Celtic’s other J-League targets Reo Hatate and Daizen Maeda are currently in the Japanese international squad Ideguchi hasn’t been capped since 2017. 

That could be a positive should the move to Celtic be completed, giving the midfielder the opportunity to settle in rather than travelling back to Asia six or seven times a year for international commitments.