Barry Anderson of the Scotsman has claimed Celtic are deep in talks for both Josip Juranovic and Giorgos Giakoumakis.

Celtic have had a bid accepted for Croatian right back Juranovic with personal terms now being discussed.

A move for Venlo striker Giakoumakis is further away but talks are ongoing in the hope a deal can be struck for the Greek frontman.

Anderson claims the two deals, if concluded will cost the club around £5.5m

Right back is certainly a priority although Anthony Ralston has elevated some of the urgency by playing very well since the start of the campaign.

The striker situation is a bit more complex. We need Edouard to be shipped out before we bring in another striker, having five men for a position that can only be held by one player doesn’t make sense.

The alternative would be Edouard sticking around and either Leigh or Ajeti making way.

It’s interesting, the Greek striker was the top goalscorer in the Dutch top flight last season even though his side got relegated.

It’s an outlier season because Giakoumakis was never prolific before last term. Celtic should be wary of putting down a decent amount of cash for the frontman unless they’re certain they can the best out of him.

We had top analyst Marc Lambert run the rule over the player on Tuesday evening – you can read his thoughts here.

2 COMMENTS

  1. I have been looking at the proposed Celtic team for tonight. It is apparent now that big Louie’s approach is to build a consistent selection for all the matches this season and so establish the strongest team of players at Paradise with, a supporting set of players on the bench each match and in the overall group of players available for the first team. This will mean that as injuries occur a man of similar qualities can be drafted in so as to maintain a consistent team structure at all times (Something I must add; Lennon who apparently, was so insecure in his approach, that he never knew what his strongest side was and as such lost the place with the team and the fans support).

    So on yer bike big man, we are with you; let’s give him and the team tonight and be all the way with big Louie and the Bhoys!

    One other thing, if he plays at any time in the game “please” no booing of LG for he will play as a Celtic man, we must all remember that! Therefore, along with the rest of the team Give him our backing. Hail hail.

  2. Bring them in we can change 5 players in a game now and the pace Celtic play at then we need like for like players to keep that in your face intensity going for 90 mins fix that and we could win anything we want

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