Jackson’s makes bold Celtic transfer predictions

Keith Jackson is expecting Celtic to be busy in the next few days of the transfer window!

Three weeks in and only Nicolas Kuhn has so far arrived, another winger on the back of the summer signings of Luis Palma, Marco Tilio and Yang Hyun-jun.

After being knocked out of the Champions League by Lazio in November Brendan Rodgers revealed that he had been looking for four quality signings since he arrived in June. With Palma the only arrival regularly selected it is safe to assume that the requirements of the former Leicester boss hasn’t been met.

So far it has been slow progress in the January window, under Ange Postecoglou signings were lined up in advance of the window opening, last season Alistair Johnston made his debut at Ibrox on January 2.

Celtic have just one more match, at home to Ross County on Saturday, before the window closes, in their Monday Morning Jury section, the Daily Record asked:

Eleven days remain in the transfer window .. where do you expect to see big arrivals in Scotland, if any?

The first reply was:

KEITH: The Shankland situation will need to be watched closely and a move to Ibrox remains very much on the cards. But Celtic will be busy in the next few days as well. Expect Brendan Rodgers to nail down a No.9 of his own before the market shuts down.

With Daizen Maeda and Oh Hyeon-gyu on duty at the Asian Cup Rocco Vata has unexpectedly emerged as Celtic’s back up striker.

After four appearances off the bench as a winger last season the arrival of three more competitors in that position seems to have convinced the Irish u-21 internationalist to see his future elsewhere.

Yesterday’s goal against Buckie Thistle is unlikely to have changed Celtic’s plans for the remainder of the window but until Jackson’s Number 9 prediction turns up Vata will be Kyogo’s deputy while Japan and South Korea’s are involved in the Asian Cup.

Jackson has strong contacts at Celtic, in June 2021 Peter Lawwell gave his last newspaper interview as CEO to the veteran Record reporter.