It is being reported in Portugal that Celtic haven’t contacted Estoril to discuss the transfer of Tiago Araujo.
Back in November Stephen McGowan of the Daily Mail and others flagged up the defender as a potential transfer target but it seems that interest has cooled off on the former Benfica defender.
This morning respected Portuguese publisher O Jogo reported:
Tiago Araújo’s good season has aroused the greed of some European clubs and one of them is Celtic.
This interest is not new and has already been reported, but the Scottish Press guarantees that the Glasgow team continues to keep an eye on the 22-year-old left-back.
According to the same sources, he is preparing a proposal to present to the Canarian SAD.
From what O JOGO found, Estoril’s officials have not yet been contacted by the British club and do not intend to release the defender for less than four million euros, especially because half of the pass belongs to Benfica.
Judging those comments it seems that there is no serious interest in Araujo from Celtic beyond claims in November that he was a potential signing. Effectively Ojogo is following up on the early claims with no concrete developments to report on this month.
With a third of the transfer window completed it is likely that some detailed discussions would have been held with clubs and agents to sound out how likely a January move is.
After 18 months at Estoril there doesn’t appear to be any serious evidence that Araujo is an upgrade on Greg Taylor, with Alexandro Bernabei already at the club 4m euros would be a lot of budget being spent on a back up option when Rodgers is clearly in need of arrivals capable of making an instant improvement on the team.
Celtic will move when it’s right usually when they sign one player one or two follow shortly due back training for cup game week on sat so we can’t have anymore squad players need to 16 players that ridgers can pick for occasion out of Europe we have a squad if fit to won spl and Cup we have been hurt by top team players having long injuries takes them time to get up to full fitness and player confident his injury won’t occur again stop him from going full out on pitch most injured players are on the way back just mentally how the act no manager new tactics things are beginning to settle last four or five games Rodgers has put out same team except for centre half partnership most know the pairing fullbacks to midfield is picking itself wuth hiata returning him and bernardo will be fighting for place McGregor O”Riley are mainstays abda will be on right if fit forest sub kyko up front with ho away on international duty need a striker palma on left Johnston sub if not sold yes we are short in forward areas and leftback Khan supposedly can operate along the forward line I’d say striker is important at moment if we win spl which we lost six points in two games no I can’t see us losing anymore with teams we have come up against unless they have a big improvement yes git the plastic pitches but we all could see what happened at rugby park that won’t happen again tynecastle we usually play well teams practise setplays we don’t lose much goals in open play but we are un a good mindset got to go to ibrox with no support if we play as expected should win that and league Celtic Park game was big for two teams that’s why there so much talk about var decision but after seen offside there only one club keeping up the witching and its personal thing there are trying to distract the fact Celtic were the better team till we had to substitute bernardo seemed to upset our rythmn even though we were playing ten men should have put game to bed last minute nerves for a team that was so dominant to draw or loss was unbelievable Rodgers will not want to be in that situation again by having to put on subs that help the opposition more than his own team
Punctuation jack,you make good points but by god it’s a hard read.
Bernardo never jumped the advertising boards. So why was he booked?
For celebrating his goals against the Huns!