Celtic pushing to sign a star of 5 million pounds sterling “creative

This is just the start of an influx of Celtic Signatures this summer.

Friday, Benjamin Nygren was revealed as a Celtic player, arriving from Nordsjælland for a reported fee of £ 1.3 m.

He is the third recruit of the hoops of the summer so far, after Kieran Tierney and Ross Doohan, but many others will follow, with Brendan Rodgers In fact pushing to sign another winger, who could actually be a bigger talent than Nygren.

Celtic search for new wingers

All this could be a change in terms of large Celtic attackers this summer.

First of all, Who will be sidelined until at least Christmas, after Break your anterior cross ligament in Tannadice in April.

Waiting for, Nicolas Kühn This seems likely to leave the club during this window, since RB Leipzig and Como are currently fighting for its signature, with reports describing that the German is Available for around 15 million pounds sterling.

Thus, the arrival of Nygren alone would be enough, from where why, according to a report by Dutch Outlet Gazet van Antwerpen, via the daily file, The “main objective” of Celtic is Michel-Oge Balikwisha by Royal Antwerp.

They claim that the Belgian Club “lowered its requested price” by around 5 million pounds sterling to around 4.5 million pounds sterling, with Antwerp “needing a financial boost”.

The 24 -year -old just has one year old On his contract in Bosuilstadion, while the Reds also did not succeed in qualifying for Europe next season, defeated 2-1 in a play-off by Royal Charleroi in May, leaving them far in a solid negotiation position.

So could Balikwisha become The eighth Belgian To play for Celtic, joining the current midfielder Arne Engels, while following the traces of Boli Bolingoli-Mbombo, Charly Musonda, Dedryck Boyata, Jason Denayer and Joos Valgaeren?

How Michel-Oge Balikwisha would improve Celtic

Balikwisha has just suffered a fairly miserable year approximately due to an injury, first requiring knee surgery in January 2024, which undermines his potential movement in Glasgow at the time, before seeing an stingy 149 minutes Action this season, before March 9, due to a thigh problem.

Nevertheless, he started each of the last ten games of Jupiler Pro League to end the countryside, scoring four goals and was a hinged figure for the Reds in the past.

In 2022/23, only 21 at the time, Balikwisha scored ten goals In all competitions as an end has won their first Belgian high flight title since 1957, also won the Belgian coupe, the young person on the target in the final victory against Mechelen, before no longer putting against the same opposition in the victory of Belgium Superbal a few months later.

In addition to that, Antwerp then qualified for the Champions League The group phases for the very first time too, with Balikwisha by taking out the clincher during the round victory of the qualifiers over Aek Athens, before also scoring when the Shakhtar Donetsk visited during the group phase themselves.

So it is clear that the Belgian wide striker has a lot of high level experience, but let’s assess how he compared to, potential and future Nygren teammate.

As already mentioned, the previous season was used for Balikwisha statistics, since it barely presented during the last campaign due to an injury.

What the table underlines is that these two wingers are in fact, stylistically, very different, with Nygren much more threat of goal, hence the reason why he scored more goals and recorded a higher number of his shots on the target.

Balikwisha, on the other hand, is a creator of large, accumulating more assistance and large chances created, as well as an exponentially larger number of cross, which is perhaps the most revealing statistics.

The analyst will be sketch agrees with this, describing the Belgian as “creative, direct and technically clear”, while Jacek Kulig of Talent of Football Note that he works better as an “inner attacker”, highlighting his “rhythm, dribble and finish” as his strength.

Elsewhere, Analyst Ben Mattinson He labels “at two feet” and “able to beat a defender anyway”.

Thus, it is clear that Balikwisha is a high quality talent that Celtic should do everything in their power to secure this summer.

Compared to Nygren, it is proven at the Jupiler Pro League level which, according to World football classificationis the eighth strongest division in the world, while the Danish Superligaen is a little lower in the 13th.

Likewise, the Belgian has experience in the Champions League, which Nygren does not have, having played in the LeagueBut not higher in terms of UEFA Club competitions.

Thus, the physical form of course allows, all this suggests that Balikwisha would be more likely to come and have an immediate impact.

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