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Porto, Marseille and Fiorentina have joined the so-called race to sign Nico Raskin.
A year ago Jack Butland was at the centre of similar transfer fantasies with Alfredo Morelos, Borna Barisic and Ryan Kent previously involved in similar summer nonsense.
Raskin had a decent couple of months for a team that lost their league by 17 points, was knocked out of their national cup competition at home by a lower league team and won once Europa League tie on penalties.
As consolation he has made four appearances for Belgium totalling 205 minutes of playing time.
That could bump his value up to the £5-7m range, nowhere near the £25m that social media has placed on the midfielder based simply on the fee that Celtic got last August for Matt O’Riley.
Unfortunately for the Gullible & Deluded O’Riley won six trophies with Celtic, played in 12 Champions League matches and picked up two UEFA Man of the Match awards at that level.
There will be some token interest in Raskin, no-one will be going overboard for a 5 foot 6 central midfielder that has scored six goals for his new club since moving from Standard Liege in January 2023.
Towards the end of a piece desperately trying to talk up interest in Raskin from Wolves, Jackson casually throws together:
Aston Villa have been linked with a possible big money offer for the midfielder this summer but Wolves are unlikely to allow their Midlands rivals to get the jump on them after keeping tabs on Raskin for so long.
The former Standard Liege player burst into Belgium’s national side towards the end of last season and his impact on the international stage has attracted a range of clubs including Porto, Marseille and Fiorentina.
Standard Liege are due 20% of any profit on the sale of Raskin who moved to Ibrox for £1m in the same window the dredged up Todd Cantwell.
That sounds very much like the clubs that were keeping tabs on Morleos three, four and five years ago.
Fees of £20m were quoted, then it dropped towards £10m, when the striker was available as a free agent there wasn’t a sniff of interest as Morelos returned to obscurity in Brazil and Colombia.
NOTE: Lyall Cameron will be introduced to the medical facilities at Murray Park tomorrow after picking up a calf strain during his signing ceremony, his transfer fee from Dundee has still to be decided.
So they’ve started churning out Deludemol in quad strength?
Aye, okay, BRING IT ON!
BTW, I’m guessing drinking lavvy water leads to talking pish as well as sh1te?
What a FN shower! Just go away.
Has anyone mentioned the lad is in the words of a prophet,”A we Thug “ into the bargain,on his CV.
Using rumours ( Villa ) posted on the swamp and using them as fact in another story
Oldest trick in the book with these cunts
25 million for Raskin the munchkin? Hang on, I’m just away up to my loft to dig out my Adidas Beckenbauers! They might need a bit of gorilla tape on them but I’ll get as many minutes of them as he had last season!
Im surprised it’s not 50 mill being thrown around the place re the little fella..
That’s using the dodgy sevco dollar calculations of course!
There will be more people showing interest in a tramps jacket than wee fatty Raskin the pot belly Belgium.
He is correct about not being too far from Celtic.
Around 5-6 miles I think so pretty close.
Ha Ha – Very good Hanjir !!!
£25m for a player who can sign a pre contract agreement with another team in 6 short months, MMMmmmmm………
HH
£25 million bang bangs for pot belly man,2 chances none and fuck all,he looks like a reject from a munchkins convention.
He “burst on the scene” ? All I remember is him getting booked for trying to tear off another player’s shirt and running around like a knackered headless chicken.
On that display he must be worth about £500 K.