Kyogo Furuhashi

Don’t agree, look at rangers in Europe. Hearts did okay (for them) and to say they were bottom at that point. until they * it up last game. Then rest of the league is pretty even at the minute. Aberdeen obviously have absolutely capitulated but to still be 4th shows how well they started.

the league as a whole I think it’s actually not too bad at the minute. It’s not all just hoof ball from other teams too.

 

Gutted HH

 

If they've no dependency on each other, that makes sense. If they're dependent on each other, then setting fees at £8m and £10m is meaningless. If you agree there's a £2m value gap, you might as well set them at £14m and £16m to inflate value. In a way, I'm surprised they've not done this knowing both are likely to go through.

 

• Kyogo Furuhashi will join Stade Rennais for €10.5 million.
• Author of 85 goals in 165 matches, the Japanese striker left an indelible mark on Celtic.
• Stade Rennais travels to AS Monaco's pitch this Saturday (5 p.m.

Before opening the most beautiful chapter of his career in Scotland, Kyogo Furuhashi first revealed himself in the country, in his training club FC Gifu, before becoming a reference in the J-League following his signing with Vissel Kobe in 2018.

Fueled by the caviar of a certain Andrés Iniesta , the native of Ikoma then displayed a formidable complementarity with the Spanish world champion, who has never run out of praise for him.


Having scored 15 goals in 21 games during his final season in Japan in 2021, Furuhashi is finally heading to Europe armed with the advice of one of the best players of his generation. "Playing together on the pitch really helped me develop a lot of my qualities and he really encouraged me to stay true to my style of play ," Kyogo said in an interview with the BBC .

 

Merde…

Whits the French fur ‘Dicky Shooder’ ?

 

Celtic selling Kyogo sends a clear signal and it's not a good one so here's exactly why I don't get it – Chris Sutton
The Parkhead hero isn't impressed by the bold move in the market by he Hoops

Selling Kyogo Furuhashi feels like Celtic have just put their hands up and admitted there’s a ceiling on their Champions League ambitions.

That the end of the road has been reached in Europe this term, whilst an unnecessary risk has been taken at home. If you wanted to be ultra-critical, you could even say it’s money over magic. Celtic deserve big congratulations for qualifying into the Champions League play-off stages. Brendan Rodgers and the players have really delivered at the top table and it’s been brilliant to see after years of underachievement at the top level.


But they can aim for more. And the title isn’t won either. I get annoyed when people say it is all over. It’s why I just don’t get this Kyogo sale. There is a right time and a wrong time to leave.

Rodgers said Kyogo wanted to go. I get that. Fair enough, sell him in the summer, but why now in the midst of a campaign where more can be achieved? After three-and-a-half years, he clearly wanted a new challenge, but that’s not his call to make. Not when under contract. Yes you can go, but when we decide. Not you.

I’m not in the dressing room, but Kyogo doesn’t seem like a bad egg, or the sort to cause unrest. Callum McGregor said recently he was still a happy wee guy. Rodgers said this issue has been on the go for a couple of months, but Kyogo was still delivering in the past fortnight with big goals at Ross County a fortnight ago and being dangerous against Young Boys, so it’s not like the tools had been packed away.

The manager also says he fits in perfectly to how the team wants to play, so surely just tell him he can go in the summer. Not at a time when there is more to aim for. It’s as if Celtic have reached the play-offs for the Champions League and now think: That’ll do. I always think about ambition, the what if?

It’ll be extremely tough in the play-off, but you stand a far-better chance of making another step if you have your best players and Kyogo was the best striker by a stretch. Celtic now go to Villa Park for a Battle of Britain without their main man and Daizen Maeda suspended. That’s odd timing.

The club is brilliantly run upstairs and I understand there’s a business decision involved, some fans and pundits saying that it’s a good deal, but I don’t see it that way at all. You can tell me that £10million is a good fee for a 30-year-old all you like, but that’s nothing in the modern game for a game-changer and nothing when it comes to the riches which are being dragged in the door from Europe.

And, incidentally, 30 is not old. Look at Mo Salah down the road at Liverpool and it’s not as if Celtic are like Rangers and need the money. Why not give it your best shot to reach the next stage. Like I said, it’s like a hands-up.

Put it this way, I couldn’t imagine Henrik Larsson being sold midway through our run to Seville. Kyogo’s an enormous loss and Celtic must have a top-class replacement lined-up. You couldn’t possibly sell the Asian now otherwise. If they get someone as good or even better, I’ll be the first to hold my own hands up.

It might be that the new boy turns out to be even better than Kyogo in the long run, but some boys need time to bed in and you are running a risk. Yes Celtic are massive odds-on in the title race, but no-one can ever take things for granted. All it takes is a couple of defeats to start a wobble.

In Dingwall a fortnight ago, Celtic would have dropped points had Kyogo not come up with the goods. I’ve not having a go at Adam Idah, but he just doesn’t have the same abilities at the moment to alter matches, no matter his part in the late moment against Young Boys.

Maeda can’t play the central role like Kyogo. He doesn’t have the same touch or the ability to play around corners with his back to goal. A quality centre-forward must be found because Jota is not for like-for-like. Kieran Tierney will also please the fans, but he’s not a striker either.

Jota is fascinating. He’s barely played since leaving Celtic. If people expect the same Jota to come back, then great. but I have my doubts.

How hungry is he? He had that hunger the first time around, but he needs to prove himself again. Three starts for Rennes this term. He’ll need time. And you need guys ready to crack on without a bedding-in period.

For me, it just sends out the wrong signal to sell Kyogo. It suggests Celtic feel that the season’s targets have already been accomplished by reaching the play-off stages and thinking the title is already in the bag with the League Cup is already won.

Don’t get me wrong, if you had said that to Celtic fans at the beginning of the season that they’d win another title and get beyond the league phase in Europe, they’d have been delighted. But talk about pricking the balloon straight after the qualification was secured.

Celtic are in a great position at the moment at home and the expectation is to try and push forward. Finding an upgrade on Kyogo would most-certainly represent pushing on, but, like I said, it’s going to take a helluva player to do it and you are also asking a lot for him to sparkle instantly. However, the facts are he’ll have to because Kyogo has been the brightest attacking light, arguably, since Henrik.

 

I agree, underwhelming. I thought he would have held out for a bigger club but I guess you can only play the hand you are dealt.
I see talk that he wanted to play in a top 5 european league and that he wasnt to fight for a place in Japans next WC squad but I do think he wanted the move to Atlanta as his mood seems to have been affected after talk of the move broke down.

I could have seen him in Spain for a Villarreal/Valencia/Sevilla and i think the style in La Liga would have suited him. Maybe given the fee, that he is pushing 30, is probably on decent wages and hasnt been in the best form, it might have been a hard sell for better clubs

 

Sutton is absolutely spot on here.

 

I don't think he is at all. In fact, I think he's miles off it with this article and I think he's generally pretty spot on, most of the time.

Kyogo wanted to leave and I think you can clearly see from Rodgers press conference that, without coming out and saying it to the media, Kyogo was pushing behind the scenes pretty hard to get the move he wanted. What was McGregor going to say when he was asked about Kyogo? 'Aye, he's been swanning about the bit * raging for the last few months.' Never going to happen. Would be completely unprofessional of a captain to do that.

I think you can also see his demeanor completely changed, especially on the pitch. We all put it down to other factors. He wasn't getting the service, he wasn't being played right or the manager had changed the system and he didn't like it. Instead of people just seeing that he was off form. He wasn't doing enough in games for me and I think it's right that if he wants to move on and we want to get a decent fee for him, that he goes, with all of our blessings. This means we can get another striker in, we can get another winger in, which we look to be doing in Jota, and get them both up to speed before we the summer window, meaning we have a pretty settled team before the qualifiers kick in, again.

This gives us 6 months to bed a striker into the way we play, get them up to speed and really firing on all cylinders before a good, strong pre-season. Players like Kuhn and Engels have taken 6 months or so to bed themselves into the culture and the way this football club needs to be represented. With the league essentially sewn up and progression in the Champions League already guaranteed, it's the perfect time to sell Kyogo and bring in a new striker. I don't think Jota or Tierney will take much time at all, to get up to speed. Wouldn't surprise me to see Jota starting next week, to be honest with you. Tierney looks like it's a summer transfer. Get Kvistgaarden in this window and I think, come the summer, he will be like a completely different player to the one we initially bring in.

 

Hindsight is a wonderful thing that none of us possess, we all thought the wee man wasn’t quite cooking the gas on the pitch this season and you could see his frustration during games. Now we all now why, the downside is wee man didn’t get the chance to say goodbye at the end of a game but hopefully he can come back and say his goodbyes to the crowd during a half time and he will see that the faithful hold him in the highest regard.
Good luck on your new journey at Rennes.

 

Just put on a beret and a string of onions round your neck and say it. That should cover it

 

Incredibly callous and dangerous thing to say... he also needs to have a moustache.

 

How's he going to manage to shrug for 75% of the time with a dodgy shoulder?

 

Oh well good luck to him

 

Thank * he's not moving to Italy. With the way they use their hands to communicate, he'd be popping that shoulder out every * conversation.

 

I get suttons argument but throwing in the towel in Europe? Wind it in big man fs.

Why is he going on about Kyogo being this unsellable player, irreplaceable akin to Henrik? That's laughable.

No mention of the wee man's struggles with form last 18 months, the (relatively) poor goal return this season, or even the idea that we may be looking at someone far more suited to Rodgers' style.

Aye it's not great timing, but don't be going off on one as if our season is now in danger. Ya big *.

 

If Kyogo was happy to stay until summer he would have. He clearly wasn’t

 

Can we move this to ex players. 99 per cent he is gone