Mathias Kvistgaarden

Eddie Howe probably had duds at Newcastle. Osula looks like one, by his record. And Ferguson is pointless, since we cannot convert the loan to a permanent move. He's overrated, too. For £60M one could buy developed players.

If we won't try Ueda, Budimir or some other ready-made striker with pedigree, then let's get a J-League player. At least the work ethic will be there.

 

Get what you’re saying but Brondby can’t commanding 13.5m for a player surely? Their record sale i would guess would be something like 5/6m.

 

Agree with a lot of that, my point was more when did Brondby start selling players for that kind of fee? They play in a * league like us, they’re rarely ever in European competition never mind the champions league. I’d have a guess at there record sale is around 6m, why should we be paying 13.5m?

 

Jota and O'Riley the players you mentioned were both Champions League players, both capped, and with all respect Celtic is far bigger club than Brondby will ever be.

Not dated. Relevant tbh.
Better negotiating position.

 

Jota hasn't been capped..

 

I'm sure he has U-21 caps.
But the point still stands.

 

Kvistgaarden also has U21 caps lol

His club are entitled to value him at what they think he’s worth. £12m or however much it is truly isn’t that much in modern football anymore.

 

Again I see your point but on the flip side we all know van dijk was worth more than the £14m we sold him for. Our league meant Southampton got a bargain. Perhaps it's our turn to get a bargain?

 

He may well do.

But I don't see our parsimonious board shelling out £13.5M for a converted winger/* striker from the Danish League to replace Kyogo.

If we got William Osula on a loan from Newcastle with an option to buy, and he hits it off with us, I'm sure we could persuade Eddie Howe to sell for under £10M.

That makes more business sense to me

 

The option to buy would be built into the deal so we wouldn’t need to convince Howe if the agreed fee after the loan was £10m.

 

Both had performances in Europe though.

 

According to Danish news they are asking 89DKK which is about 10milGBP.
https://indkast.dk/varsgo-brondby-kvistgaarden-kan-blive-celtics-dyreste-indkob-nogensinde

 

Offer £10m plus addons and % of next sale, hes clearly the player we want.

 

Well, in both cases it demonstrably did justify the price tag, since both were sold pretty quickly for those prices. In O’Riley’s case we had several clubs offering in that region.

Jota was a bit more of an inflated value but then I think if we had actively been trying to offload him like Brondby are we would’ve accepted a lower price and had plenty willing to match it.

I think our support are pretty good and fair in this regard actually. I think it’s generally understood European performances are crucial for us demanding big fees because it shows the player can cope against better players.

I think we’d all agree a £10m - £13.5m needs to take us up a level in Europe if we are ever going to progress as a club. To me it’s a huge risk to spend that kind of money on a 22 year old that hasn’t kicked a ball in anger in Europe - and not just for us, for any club - which is why Brondby’s rumoured price tag is unreasonably high IMO.

And I’ve posted in here I want Kvistgaarden and rate him - but we shouldn’t be overpaying just because we have money.