With us roughly at the midpoint in March, Celtic and manager Brendan Rodgers are now quickly running out of games to play in the remainder of the 2024/25 campaign and it has undoubtedly been another great season for regulars at Parkhead and it is highly likely to end with the success that we had all craved from the campaign.
Having already long lifted the League Cup this year, Celtic also enjoyed some memorable European nights in the Champions League where we eclipsed our own (more recent) historical aspirations before narrowly losing to German Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich at the Play Off stage. Even allowing for those enjoyable distractions, we have also continued to go great guns in the domestic league competition and having given ourselves a fantastic advantage early doors, we have not let it slip and silverware and another title is ours again given we hold a very credible 16 point advantage with a positive 70 goal difference. Then, of course, we have the Scottish Cup to go.
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With another potential triple on the cards, that also naturally lends itself to what kind of business we are likely to do over the summer when the transfer window opens again as we will undoubtedly be looking to strengthen to not only consolidate our ongoing domestic dominance, but with the hopes of matching (or going one step further) on a European front in the 2025/26 campaign.
Every fan can probably think of a player or two who should be actively moved on to free up our budgets a touch more and one of the players who falls into that category is Gustaf Lagerbielke, and the 24 year old Swedish international has featured regularly on the speculation rumour mill over the last few months.
For whatever reason the former IF Elfsborg centre half just did not settle in at Celtic Park and he failed to really impress in the handful of chances that he was given in the first team, and with Rodgers will stocked in the middle of the park with the likes of Cameron Carter-Vickers, Auston Trusty and Liam Scales, his loan out to FC Twente was in the best interests of everyone.
Having initially paid a reported £3.5 million for him, more recent reports are now suggesting that we have now put a £3 million price tag on his head for his loan club to match given his impressive performances for them, or potential other suitors who have been tracking his recent progress.
To draw a permanent line, that seems a very fair fee indeed so everyone can move on with friendly terms and we can well expect offers come the end of the season.
