Celtic hit gold with star sold for more than Kyogo

Celtic ahead Daizen Maeda continued his sensational season with one more purpose within the membership’s 5-1 win over Kilmarnock within the Scottish Premiership final weekend.

The Hoops romped to a cushty victory in entrance of their dwelling assist to bounce again from their disappointing 1-0 defeat away to St. Johnstone of their earlier outing within the top-flight.

An in depth-range strike from Maeda, in addition to some beautiful objectives from Reo Hatate and Cameron Carter-Vickers, helped the Scottish giants on their solution to all three factors.

Brendan Rodgers’ Japanese marksman has been in phenomenal kind in entrance of purpose all through the 2024/25 marketing campaign, notching his thirty first purpose of the season towards Kilmarnock.

The skilled ahead has scored 31 objectives and offered 9 assists in 45 appearances in all competitions for the Hoops to date this time period, which exhibits that he has offered a daily menace in entrance of purpose as each a scorer and a creator for Celtic.

Rodgers wanted him, and others, to step up on the prime finish of the pitch after the membership sanctioned the sale of confirmed goalscorer Kyogo Furuhashi within the January switch window.

How a lot Rennes paid for Kyogo Furuhashi

Shortly after Celtic’s 1-0 win over Younger Boys within the Champions League, there was discuss a attainable transfer to France for the Japanese ahead earlier than the deadline.

Six days on from that victory, which turned out to be the striker’s final look for the membership, Rennes formally accomplished the signing of Kyogo for a reported payment of £10m.

Deciding to maneuver on from the Japan worldwide halfway via the marketing campaign was a big gamble by the Scottish giants, given the standard that he had offered through the years in Glasgow.

Kyogo joined the membership from Vissel Kobe on a everlasting switch in the summertime of 2021 underneath the administration of Ange Postecoglou, and hit the bottom operating with 20 objectives in all competitions within the 2021/22 marketing campaign.

As you may see within the desk above, the Japanese centre-forward was a constant purpose menace for the Scottish giants all through his time in Glasgow, scoring at the least 12 objectives in all 4 of his seasons at Parkhead.

His greatest yr in a Hoops jersey was, as is apparent by wanting on the desk, the 2022/23 marketing campaign as he plundered a staggering 34 objectives in all competitions for Celtic.

His kind in entrance of purpose over these seasons ultimately allowed the membership to rake in £10m for his companies within the January switch window, however he’s not the most costly striker offered by the Hoops previously decade.

How a lot Celtic paid for Odsonne Edouard

In the summertime of 2018, Celtic determined to splash the money on a brand new centre-forward to deliver Odsonne Edouard from Paris Saint-Germain to Paradise in a club-record £9m switch.

The French marksman had spent the 2017/18 season on mortgage in Glasgow, scoring 11 objectives in 28 matches, and that satisfied the board to signal the attacker on a everlasting deal in a file switch forward of the next marketing campaign.

Edouard adopted that up with a return of twenty-two objectives and eight assists in 52 matches in all competitions throughout the 2018/19 season, together with 15 objectives within the Premiership – as proven within the highlights above.

The previous PSG starlet went on to be a dependable menace on the prime finish of the pitch for the Scottish giants for a number of years, racking up 87 objectives and 37 assists in 179 outings for the membership in all competitions.

These statistics present that Celtic hit the jackpot by forking out a club-record payment to signal him on a everlasting deal as a result of he went on to turn out to be a prolific scorer for the Hoops in his three seasons in Glasgow as a everlasting participant.

The Hoops then went on to strike gold on the centre-forward by making a major revenue on the attacker once they offered him to Premier League facet Crystal Palace forward of the 2021/22 marketing campaign.

How Celtic hit the jackpot with Odsonne Edouard

The English facet swooped for his companies in the summertime of 2021, as they appeared to bolster their choices on the prime finish of the pitch, they usually agreed a reported deal value as much as £18.5m.

Eagles chairman Steve Parish described Edouard as a striker with “confirmed high quality”, based mostly on his time with Celtic, and that’s the reason Palace had been keen to commit an enormous sum of cash to signal him.

The French centre-forward’s worth, subsequently, soared by a whopping £9.5m throughout his spell with the Hoops, from the £9m that they initially paid for him, and that exhibits that they hit the jackpot with him.

Edouard was additionally offered for £8.5m greater than Kyogo was in January, regardless of his spectacular purpose return for the Bhoys, which speaks to how effectively the membership did to rake in that payment from Palace.

Celtic additionally hit gold with the sale of the Frenchman as a result of he has solely scored 21 objectives in all competitions in his 4 years in England to this point, with all 21 of these coming for Palace and none in his present mortgage spell with Leicester Metropolis.

As you may see within the desk above, his market worth has plummeted from £18.5m to £8.5m within the final 4 years because of his lack of objectives for Palace and Leicester since his transfer away from Parkhead.

This implies that the Scottish giants performed a blinder by cashing in on him in the summertime of 2021 as a result of he has regressed since leaving Glasgow and is now value even lower than the preliminary £9m that the Hoops paid to signal him from PSG.