Ange Postecoglou is comfortable about Celtic’s progress in the transfer market.
Just before heading to Austria for 10 days of training and three matches the hoops boss added Jota and Alexandro Bernabei to his squad.
No business has been completed while the squad was on the continent but on Wednesday lunchtime there was a flurry of speculation that Edouard Michut of Paris Saint Germain was a transfer target, Fabrizio Romano went as far as tweeting that talks were at an advanced stage.
After beating Banik Ostrava 4-2 the Celtic boss dampened down expectations that Michut was Celtic-bound but did admit that transfer business was progressing with just over two weeks to go until the SPFL Premiership opener at home to Aberdeen.
The Daily Record reports Postecoglou saying:
In terms of us, we have got a plan that we are sticking to and so far I am pretty happy with the progress we are making on all fronts and hopefully there will be some news coming out before the season starts. We are going through the process and making sure we get the ones that we need.
I’m sure over the next couple of weeks I’ll have discussions with players who potentially are facing a future elsewhere and we’ll make decisions on that.
We are still working away in the background. We know what we need. We are working with some targets we have, but we are in no rush to get it done. There is nothing, in terms of players we are being linked to at the moment, that’s going to happen in the near future. Or at all, in some of the cases.
Fausto Vera of Argentinos Juniors and free agent Aaron Mooy have both been linked with Celtic without any real substance other than vague connections. Last month Celtic signed their first Argentinian when Alexandro Bernabei was recruited from Lanus while Australian internationalist Mooy has played under Postecoglou for Australia and is believed to be in Scotland where his wife’s family live.
