Celtic have announced the transfer of Yosuke Ideguchi to Vissel Kobe, the club that supplied the hoops with Kyogo Furuhashi and Yuki Kobayashi.
Two years ago the midfielder joined Celtic alongside Reo Hatate and Daizen Maeda but a nasty injury on his debut away to Alloa Athletic in the Scottish Cup effectively grounded his Celtic career before it had started. Matt O’Riley made his debut in the next fixture, away to Hearts.
Billed as a holding midfielder with a previous stint in Europe at Leeds United, Ideguchi found that position barely existed at Celtic where they enjoy 70% possession in many domestic matches. James McCarthy and Oliver Abildgaard suffered similar fates.
It appears that Celtic have received a 1m euros fee for the midfielder, the same fee that they paid to Gamba Osaka two years ago. With exchange rate fluctuations there may be a small profit or loss.
Yosuke Ideguchi has today joined J.League Champions, @visselkobe on a permanent transfer.
Best of luck, Yosuke! ? pic.twitter.com/GyISkx307T
— Celtic Football Club (@CelticFC) January 9, 2024
Ideguchi made five substitute appearances in his ‘debut’ season and spent the 2023 J-League season on loan at Avispa Fukuoka where he was short listed for the Player of the Year Award.
Further departures are expected from Celtic but it has been a slow start, incoming and outgoing, start to the January window.
Yes alloa was allowed to kick us off the park I think we got more than one injury disgraceful refereeing player should have had red card for dangerous tackling by a thug
Sent out by Their Hun supporting manager to assault and main knowing they’d get off with it and they did…
Just another sorry story in the sorry mess that is Scottish Bloody Football !
I watched that match live and it was a sneaky horrendous “tackle” from behind and a definite red card…but not for the “un-sighted” referee.
When you think that Maeda was sent off against Atletico for catching the toe of the
opposition player, yet the Alloa thug stayed on the park. I feel really sorry for Ideguchi.
What an awful impression he must have of Scottish football now.
Editor: Don Robertson was the referee, SFA issued a retrospective red card, as they did the previous month for a Robertson yellow after Calum Butcher’s attack on David Turnbull at Tannadice, Robertson’s career has gone from strength to strength.