CELTIC’S £5million flop striker Albian Ajeti could be on his way back to Parkhead.
Hoops fans can relax, though, the Swiss frontman has not emerged as an unlikely target for Brendan Rodgers in this transfer window.
Ajeti, who was bought from West Ham by Neil Lennon in the summer of 2000, scored a miserly nine goals in two years at Parkhead and had an unsuccessful loan spell at Austrian outfit Sturm Graz before he was offloaded for a cut-price £500,000 to Gaziantep in September 2023.
He scored one goal in only five outings for the Turkish club before being freed.
SIT-DOWN STRIKER…Albian Ajeti in familiar pose after another miss.
The misfiring forward returned to former team Basel in January last year and they are one of the sides seeded Celts could be drawn against when the Champions League play-off ballot is made on Monday.
Ajeti has claimed 10 goals in 30 league appearances for the Swiss title winners who have already confirmed their place in the unseeded section the draw.
Rodgers’ men could face one of five opponents in their pursuit of the gatecrashing the multi-million stages of Europe’s elite competition.
