GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - JANUARY 13: Luis Palma during a Celtic training session at the Lennoxtown Training Centre, on January 13, 2025, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Craig Foy/SNS Group via Getty Images)
Luis Palma is expected to be presented as a Lech Poznan player on Saturday, signing up for a season long loan.
The winger has three years left to run on his Celtic contract and has been out of Brendan Rodgers’ plans for the best part of 18 months.
Palma picked up a league winners medal at Olympiakos in May but the Greek club passed up on the chance to make that deal a permanent move.
Despite the sale of Nicolas Kuhn and a long term injury to Jota the door at Celtic remains closed to Palma with Futbol Central America reporting:
Central American Football has learned in EXCLUSIVE that Luis Enrique Palma Oseguera will be presented on Monday, July 21.
Palma will travel from Honduras to Poland on Saturday , where he will wear the colours of his new club in Europe two days later.
Journalist Álvaro De La Rocha also learned that Luis Enrique will wear the number 77 on his back; the goal is to regain his best form.
Palma was playing at the Gold Cup up until July 3 which eats into his close season ahead of a move to Poland.
Poznan are in the Champions League qualifiers but it will be asking of a Honduran internationalist to move to Poland and have an instant impact on their chances of reaching the riches of the 36 team group stage. On Tuesday they are at home to Icelandic champions Breidablik.
Psssed up the chance of a permanent deal at Olympiakos…
He must be on far too much money at Parkhead then for sure !
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That’s rather damning: letting Palma go when we could do with a – decent – winger.
There is a talented player in there somewhere, but BR just can’t coach it out of him?
If a player’s decision making is consistently poor, then it might be best to just cut your losses?
A relatively expensive loan player on the books for the next 3 years…?
Palma has been on the list of “not good enoughs” and “deadwood needing trimmed” mantra for all last season.
Now some want him retained if we cant get anyone else in.
No way, let him go out again.
Same with Kuhn, this nonsense he should have just be told he had to stay till after the play off game, no chance, he would just down tools if he found out a move was blocked.
Get realistic about these things.
Lech Poznan won the Ekraklasa (extra quality, I think) League by one point last year
The 2025/2026 season has started with one game played. Lech lost. I will follow Luis
Palma’s progress in Poland. Luis can play at a high level. A brace against Mexico November 2024. A hat trick
in an Irish friendly and some good goals for Celtic. A former Celt/pundit and Chris Sutton both
said Luis cut in looking for a gap in the defense too much, instead of a quick targeted pass from wider out.
That’s easily fixed. They said he cut in to favour his right foot. Well, I have seen him swing a center from the left side using his left foot a number of times. If you are moving from the left parallel to the bye-line hoping for a gap, wouldn’t you most likely strike for goal using the right foot. Once I observed him send a low chip shot from
a few meters out from the bye-line using the outstep of his right boot that swung slightly into an celt attacker, who missed a sitter, I am not his agent so that’s all. I believe Luis can exceed our expectations.