Luis Palma missed training with ARIS Thessalonika on Thursday as talks intensify over a move to Celtic.
Giannis Chorianopoulos, the editor of Greek publisher Sporttime made the claim, three years ago Chorianopoulos led the line with coverage of Vasilas Barkas moving to Celtic and was also a reliable source on the movements of Giorgos Giakoumakis.
The loss of Jota to Saudi side Al Ittihad at the start of July has hit Celtic hard with Palma apparently identified as a replacement for the former Benfica winger.
The goal scoring winger is the subject of a bid of around £3.5m which has brought all parties round the negotiating table with less than a week left in the transfer window.
?Luis Palma was out of Aris Thessaloniki training, ahead of his transfer. Greek club contacted his agent. Celtic seem to be the favourites to sign Palma. Offers from non European clubs also, Palma wants to continue playing in Europe ??@CelticFC #ARIS #CelticFC #Celtic
— Giannis Chorianopoulos (@choria80) August 24, 2023
Palma has played four UEFA Conference qualifiers this season, scoring at home to Dinamo Kiev but ARIS lost out to the Ukrainian side on aggregate.
Time isn’t really something that Celtic have in abundence with the closing days of the transfer window looking like a frantic time for the Recruitment Team to shore up the squad ahead of the Champions League with September starting with a trip to Ibrox.
We have several fully fit wingers available and complaining about lack of game time on the books, so why are we wasting time and money on this area when we have no defenders and are badly in need of a new first choice goalie!!?? Surely getting cover in at the back is more of a priority just now!? Haksabanovic wants away due to lack of game time and Vata (a kid we would no doubt be looking to blow £2-3m on right now, as yet another project player, if he played for someone else) could go too, due to the same lack of chances. We have players as good as, if not better than, this guy on the books already. If we were signing say a Podence, fair enough, but can we please stop signing lots of £2-3m squad fillers/projects and start just signing the couple of high quality, first team ready, £7.5-15m players that we were told were all we needed to take us up a level at the start of the window?
Should be spending money on Podence a proven quality that will go right into the first team
But nah as always go for the cheaper player , more money in their pockets and the dafties are happy because the huns were once after him