Derek Rae was being as diplomatic as possible when he was asked about Celtic’s link with Malick Thiaw.
The Schalke defender has been touted as a possible replacement for the outgoing Christopher Jullien who is heading to the German club on-loan.
Rae, who commentated on the Scottish game for years and is now the voice of the Bundesliga for ESPN was sceptical about Celtic rumours.
The 21-Year-old is in high demand with a very high fee from Celtic’s point of view. If there’s no news coming out of Germany at the moment, is there much in the story at all?
Celtic have already put down a fairly large outlay for Cameron Carter-Vickers and look very likely to pay big money for Jota in the coming days. Another big money fee after those two would be highly unlikely.
It would be a top signing if the club did manage to bring Malick to Glasgow. As it stands – there’s not a lot of meat on the bones. It remains a rumour rather than something more substantial.
This young German player has always supported Celtic, get him in now 🤣
£8m is a massive outlay but give it two years and he’ll probably be worth circa £28m, and that’s the kind of profit potential our Ferengi board can get behind…but it’s naught but paper pash as per usual I’m sure.