Jota Silva

Celtic approached Vitória Guimarães about Jota Silva in January before turning their attentions to Nicolas Kuhn.

The winger, 24, was on the Hoops' scouting radar back in the winter window as he had shown potential to become one of Brendan Rodgers' signings ahead of the title run-in. Reports this week emerged suggesting the club were keen on the attacker and Football Scotland can reveal they were previously considering a move for the playmaker


Silva has 13 goals and seven assists in all competitions this season so far and his form even back in January was attracting interest. Vitoria, however, were keen on keeping their star and Celts would eventually bring in Kuhn from Rapid Vienna, as we told you, in a deal worth around an initial £3million


Silva has since made his full Portugal debut in their 5-2 win over Sweden and is now valued by his club at around €15million or £12.9million, which would price Celtic out of any potential return for his signature

 

Would sign him based on nothing other than his name.

 

Got to assume left hand side?

 

He plays off the right more but he can and has played off the left and centrally.

I know £12.9m is expensive but we should be able to afford they sort of fees. Likely we will make around £40m from player sales/player percentages(Frimpong/Tierney).

£13m for a man who is performing above expectations in a league like Portugal should not be out of our budget. Ridiculous to even suggest that it is, in my opinion.

 

Agree. Peter will cry lol.

Potentially ominous for Palma if we are targeting another winger.

New/Maeda Kuhn/Yang/Forrest.

 

We love a “we nearly signed this guy!” Media leak don’t we?

 

I think Maeda could be away in the summer.

 

Not really we opted to sign Kuhn instead

 

Eh?

 

If we got a major bid maybe but not sure we ever would. Trying to price him would be pretty hard given how much of a mixed bag he is.

 

The article said we opted to sign Kuhn instead of the this Jota Silva.

 

True but I think because of what he is, he’d get a move. Technically, we know he's extremely poor but I genuinely can’t think of a player in world football who is as energetic as him and as relentless with their pressing. He would fit into a lot of systems extremely well, like he did with Ange.

Hard to price him, as you say. However, I would be looking for £6m for him. I think we could get that easily. His numbers are actually pretty good here. 101 games, 27 goals and 15 assists. It’s decent numbers.

 

Ah. Silly me.

 

Ah the Peter Lawell "we tried" bucket.

Nearly as boringly repetitive as these once a week Scottish Sun articles titled "I used to star fae Rangers, now I sell chicken feet to Chinese pornstars" etc etc

We would've won the CL by now with all these "couldnae gae it over the line" signings like McGinn, Toney, et al.