Jakob Breum remains a name high on Celtic’s transfer list, but progress has stalled. The club has made three bids, with the latest reaching around £3 million, though Go Ahead Eagles aren’t budging.
Breum is under contract until 2027, and his former club Odense are due 25 per cent of any future sale. That sell-on clause bumps the overall cost up, with Go Ahead Eagles looking for a final fee somewhere between £5 and £7 million. It’s a major factor in the current standoff.
Inside the club, there’s a growing sense that the fee is becoming too much of a hurdle. Breum is highly rated, but the board doesn’t appear willing to go beyond what they feel is reasonable. With such a large gap between what’s been offered and what’s being asked, the situation remains deadlocked.
Celtic’s scouting department sees Breum as a strong attacking option and someone who could add real quality in the long run. But the cautious approach from the board shows a clear line between ambition and budget. It’s unclear whether talks will continue, or if the club will turn their attention elsewhere.
Journalist Mark Hendry has now provided a significant update about the club’s stance on the deal.
He said: (CeltsAreHere Substack), “Jakub Breum is admired, but Celtic won’t open the wallet. Go figure.”
Breum sits right at the heart of the gap between Celtic’s £3 million offer and Go Ahead Eagles’ £6.5 million asking price. He’s a creative player who could improve Celtic’s attacking options for years, but the high cost, especially with Odense’s 25 per cent cut, makes the deal tougher to justify.
The board’s hesitation to go any higher shows they’re thinking things through carefully. Celtic have made it clear they’re interested, with real offers on the table, but they’ve stayed cautious. It’s a pattern we’ve seen before: methodical, patient, and not willing to overspend.
For now, the next move belongs to Go Ahead Eagles. If they lower their demands or take a more realistic view of the market, there’s still a chance the deal gets done. But if they hold firm, Celtic will either need to pay more or walk away.
If the transfer doesn’t happen, it could still affect how Celtic go about future deals. It might lead to a closer look at sell-on clauses, pricing structures, and how the club negotiates. As for Breum, he could end up attracting other clubs willing to pay more, especially with his contract running until 2027.
However it ends, the Breum situation shows the fine line Celtic are trying to walk between strengthening the squad and keeping control of the budget as the new season gets closer.
The miserly Celtic Board can’t keep turning to other targets everytime a club asks for more than £3m for a player. They’re rapidly running out of targets and the more clubs realise their desperation, the higher player prices will rise. Besides that, all the decent players in Europe are gone now, snapped up by other clubs early in the season. This kind of false economics at Parkhead is what led to a desperate scatter for players on the last day of last season’s transfer window, a desperation that saw the prices of Engels, Idah and Trusty skyrocket beyond these players abilities. £26m was paid for three players worth only a fraction of that value. That’s what selling clubs do when they know their counterparts are so incompetent they get desperate in the last weeks or days of the window.
That entire regime at Celtic needs clearing out and proper business people with an eye for speculating to accumulate being brought in, people with vision, ambition and, at the very least, competence.
It’s high time this old pals act run by Dermot Desmond was put to bed. Celtic is going nowhere in Europe as long as these misers are running the show. If they don’t want to take calculated risks then they shouldn’t be in business.
The transfer window has basically been closed as all the good players that were available have been sold.
Let’s not kid ourselves ,our club are scouring the market for very average players that won’t improve the team but will save the board money to provide them with larger bonuses.
These people are not Celtic fans!
That’s typical of Lawwell’s way of doing things – only really interested in banking money. His arrogance knows no bounds and we all know the good players he’s lost us in the past with his meddling and dithering.
He sold Kyogo and Kuhn with no thought to the goals lost to us or replacements being bought.
Everyone knows we need a winger and a striker but his greed seems to have blinded him to that fact.
Indeed it wouldn’t surprise me that he’ll sell Maida if an offer exceeding £15m comes in.
As for, the invisible man, Nicholson, it’s also obvious he’s just Lawwell’s puppet – put in place by him so that he (Lawwell) can continue treating the club as his own fiefdom.
How to force Desmond out ? That is the question. He’s said before he won’t sell which means he has to be FORCED OUT ! That is the urgent agenda for the 65% Shareholding that Desmond doesn’t control. This is now an existential situation- shareholders must be sounded out as to whether they’re prepared to GO TO WAR.
i have a bad feeling about Wed night and if Celtic fail to qualify for CL Group
stage then Rodgers will be leaving at the end of the season. The Kazaks conceded 24 fouls against Slovan, in other words they are DIRTY !
I hope I’m wrong but…..