The 2024/25 Scottish Premiership campaign is turning into another good one for Celtic fans and manager Brendan Rodgers, and we already look set for a very successful season once again.
We have now entering the November international break and a few players will get some much needed down time, whilst others will be on duty for their country, but with eleven games played in our domestic season we sit top of the table after ten wins and a draw with 31 points. We are tied in top spot with unexpectedly impressive Aberdeen, but our goal difference is greatly superior to theirs.
Our Champions League campaign is going much better than last season as well, and after four matches we have picked up two wins and a draw, and are safely within the Play Off qualification group – but importantly only two points shy of the automatic qualification spots. If you cannot wait to see if we make it given the lull in the fixture list, you can navigate to this website to investigate the growing online Casino market until the Hearts fixture cycles around.
Whilst Rodgers would be at pains to say that the entire squad have more than played their part in that (and he would not be wrong) one man is standing out right now, and you do not have to go that far back to realise why the name Nicolas Kuhn is such a surprise in this sentence.
The 24 year old versatile attacker made the switch to us back in the January transfer window from Austrian side Rapid Wien, but the German Under 20 international had a pretty torrid second half of the season as he tried to settle in, and even the most optimistic in the Parkhead faithful had written him off as a failure and somebody we needed to move on quickly for whatever we could claw back.
But this season has been night and day. He has been a key and pivotal part in our (all competitions) 15 wins, two draws and a defeat to Borussia Dortmund, and the 54 goals that we have scored in just 18 matches.
His own record reads 17 games, ten goals and eleven assists so far – meaning he has directly contributed to almost 40 per cent of those goals which is a phenomenal achievement in reality. His brace against RB Leipzig were his first Champions League goals and clubs in other European divisions are now starting to pay some real attention to him and his performances. Whilst there is nothing concrete yet, in some quarters there is even talk of a potential full international call up being on the cards in the March break.
Whatever the truth of that speculation, it is now being reported that we have received firm ‘inquiries’ from the English Premier League about our valuation of him, and his potential availability in the New Year. Fulham and Brentford are namechecked as being two clubs who have expressed an interest, but it is claimed that we have quickly slapped a fee in the region of £30 million for his services in an effort to either warn possible suitors off, or really maximise the financial benefit in our favour if a deal proves to be too good to be true.
It would be a significant mark up on the reported £3 million we originally paid for his services, and negotiations are weighted in our favour here as he remains under contract at Celtic Park until the summer of 2029. Understandably, those in the media are casting their eye backs to our record sale of 23 year old midfielder Matt O’Riley. The two capped Denmark international made the switch over the summer to Brighton and Hove Albion in a deal believed to be in the region of £25 million, so naturally that has become the ballpark area of interest for any potential Kuhn deal given his meteoric rise this season.
With it strongly believed that we want to keep him, it would take a ridiculous offer to tempt us, so £30 odd million probably is not that far off if anything is to truly happen ahead of February.
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