PRESOV, SLOVAKIA - JUNE 15: Mathias Kvistgaarden of Denmark arrives to the stadium prior to the UEFA European Under-21 Championship 2025 Group Stage match between Netherlands and Denmark at on June 15, 2025 in Presov, Slovakia. (Photo by Boris Streubel - UEFA/UEFA via Getty Images)
In what can only be described as a bizarre twist Mathias Kvistgaarden is reported to be very close to joining Norwich City!
Celtic have been linked with the Danish striker since the summer 2023 transfer window but with each passing window the fee was raised, becoming just too much for Michael Nicholson to agree a deal on.
Last summer Norwich managed to negotiate the fee for Adam Idah up from around £5m to £9m before accepting a deal from Celtic, now the Canaries have turned to a long running Celtic target to lead next season’s promotion bid.
On Friday afternoon Danish site Tipsbladet reported:
Mathias Kvistgaarden is not going to Lens, but is very close to moving to Norwich.
Tipsbladet can reveal that.
According to Tipsbladet’s information, the Championship club has made an offer for the Danish national team striker, and negotiations are so advanced that the parties now believe in a sale.
This is not least because Mathias Kvistgaarden himself has chosen a move to Norwich rather than Lens.
In Norwich, the 23-year-old Brøndby top scorer will have to fight for promotion to the Premier League, and that has appealed to the Dane more than a move to Lens.
Lens otherwise believed – as Tipsbladet could reveal – that there was an agreement with Brøndby on Thursday, but they will not get him, and instead, according to Tipsbladet’s information, the French have turned their attention to other alternatives.
Mathias Kvistgaarden is thus millimeters away from replacing his childhood club with a major sale to Norwich, which has top-level facilities, comparable to the big Premier League clubs.
But first, the last hurdles must be cleared, and they are expected to be cleared soon.
Brøndby will travel to Austria on Sunday for a training camp ahead of the upcoming Superliga season, which will most likely be without Mathias Kvistgaarden.
It had recently been suggested that Celtic would lose out on signing Kvistgaarden with Eintract Frankfurt, naturally it is difficult to compete with a club from one of the five richest leagues.
Losing out to Championship side Norwich is a different matter entirely.
Clearly Kvistgaarden will be hoping that by scoring in the Championship he can attract offers from the EPL but doing the same with Celtic with the bonus of European football would have been at least as attractive to the 23-year-old striker.
Brendan Rodgers is under contract to manage Celtic until June 2026.
If we lose out…then I guess money talks.
Lose out ? we’ll soon see if we lost out and to be honest i was never convinced he was the real deal , norwich are late to the party and if he fails with them that’ll be the last we’ll hear about him , fools and their money are soon parted and in fairness to celtic the held off while some fans thought we had nothing else to do but flash the cash and start an auction against ourselves
The biscuit tin mentality is never far away at our club,I give you the big.chap from Peterborough 2-3 years ago came up was in the building saw the facilities and then we haggled over £500,000 extra in the fee.
The same player goes to Brentford 2 years later they punt him for the best part of £30 odd million.
That’s our board in a nutshell,tight arse B******S.
We laugh at sevco being slack at missing out on players going to championship clubs and here we have one ourself.
Celtic did offer the money for him , Brentford offered more from what I’m told , they paid all of it up front , and the player himself was told that moving to Scotland may affect his chances of playing for England , maybe Celtic could have offered more money for him, we’ll never know HH
We were down a striker going into the summer and have been since January, so why wasn’t a deal done to get this guy or someone else in on the day the window opened? Other teams have signed loads of players already, so this “it’s still early in the window” crap doesn’t cut it. Kühn is also heading out the door, Jota is done until 2026, Taylor has gone and others are just sorting out formalities to leave, so we are weaker and are short of players.
Its always the same, every summer. We can do deals quickly to sell our players, but always drag it out when buying, usually on the BS pretext that we have to secure CL groups first. That doesn’t wash any more though.
Firstly, we have the money to do a whole window of transfers already sitting in the bank and while it does so, it’s just being eaten away, because it is then subject to corporation and other taxes. Which it wouldn’t be if we spent it.
Secondly, how many times have we failed to qualify for the CL groups now, precisely because of this moronic “wait and see if we qualify” nonsense? Robbing us of decent players for both those crunch games and the season ahead, as well as the CL finances that would have paid for them anyway.
Thirdly, how many times do we have to start the season bedding in new signings, that are inferior to ones we could have had and that we’ve now overpaid for because we left signing them to the last minute, in actual league games? Rather than over a full pre-season and in meaningless friendlies, where any mistakes they make don’t matter, because we didn’t sign them until deadline day or thereabouts.
When will the penny finally drop with the clowns running the club that they are not just robbing the fans of better players, better football and trophies, but that their self-defeating penny pinching is also robbing the club of the money they’re so obsessed by? They pat themselves on the back at every AGM for the great job they’ve done, but money you’ve missed out on doesn’t show up in the accounts, because its the counter factual. You can’t show what you never had.
If you could also run some Jim Bowen “come and have a look at what you would have won” shadow accounts, purely for comparison, that showed say an extra £20m in transfer fees alongside the money you would have got for CL group participation and put them next to each other in the AGM, I doubt you would see the usual round of corporate back slapping by Lawell, Nicholson and their ilk.
How many of those the papers said we were chasing turned us down because of the league we play in
Top comment, well said Bribhoy.
They gave Brendan a fair wedge last summer (took more in of course)…
Not sure how good his aquacisions turned out to be all the same…
Still ya canny argue about winning the league by 17 points all the same !