Celtic open initial talks to sign £8m star who’s the next Bitton

Is it set to be a busy summer time at Celtic?

After lacking out on the treble, crushed on penalties by Aberdeen within the Scottish Cup Closing, the Hoops are anticipated to closely reinforce their squad this summer time.

Properly, with an important Champions League play-off tie circled in crimson on the calendar, happening on the finish of August, Brendan Rodgers will need his summer time enterprise to be executed early, so are the Premiership champions about to land a brand new recruit?

Celtic concentrating on a brand new midfielder

Defenders are actually the order of the day for the Celts this summer time with Kieran Tierney’s return to Parkhead one among Scottish soccer’s worst-kept secrets and techniques.

Nevertheless, the full-back is not the one participant who might be closing in on a transfer to Paradise in line with stories.

As per Portuguese outlet A Bola, Celtic have ‘opened preliminary talks’ to signal midfielder Demir Ege Tıknaz.

They define the truth that the 20-year-old spent this season on mortgage at Rio Ave from Beşiktaş, and the Portuguese membership have an choice to make this transfer everlasting for €5m (round £4.2m).

Nevertheless, given curiosity from Celtic, in addition to Lille, Rio Ave are making ready to make a fast revenue on Tıknaz, inserting a €10m (round £8m) price-tag on his head.

So, would he be signing for the Scottish champions, and which former Celt is he paying homage to?

Demir Ege Tıknaz: the following Nir Bitton?

Author Ryan McGinlay believes that Tıknaz’s ‘resemblance in play-style to Nir Bitton is uncanny’ and, ought to he arrive, if the Turkey worldwide had even half as profitable a Celtic profession, he’d be doing effectively.

Bitton signed from FC Ashdod in 2013 and would stay at Celtic for 9 years, making 271 appearances and successful 18 main trophies.

Naturally a defensive midfielder, the Israeli worldwide would steadily fill in at centre-back too, with Kieran Devlin of the Athletic praising Bitton’s ‘studying of the sport’ and ‘composure in possession’, with Joe Sullivan labelling him ‘versatile and extremely dependable’.

So, might Tıknaz be one thing related?

Properly, analyst Ben Mattinson believes the Turkiye U21 worldwide ‘reads the sport effectively’ permitting him to ‘step up and intercept​​​​​​​’, praising his ‘timing of tackles​​​​​​​’ and talent to ‘steal the ball’, including that he possesses a ‘first rate passing vary’ too.

Meantime, in an interview with Sarah Shephard of the Athletic, Tıknaz​​​​​​​ himself says he has the same enjoying model to that of Sergio Busquets, stating “I all the time wish to have possession… I’m type of a playmaker… I can play box-to-box too”.

Properly, in line with Aryan Suraj Chadha of Objective, the Turkish teenager is among the most ‘sought-after skills throughout Europe’, so let’s assess his statistics within the Primeira Liga this season.

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Value stating at the start that, in line with a examine by Bernd Frick, Tommy Kweku Quansah and Markus Lang, the Primeira Liga is among the ‘least balanced leagues’ in European soccer, so the truth that Tıknaz was enjoying for Rio Ave, who completed eleventh, makes his statistics all of the extra spectacular.

The Turkish midfielder ranks extremely for metrics each out and in of possession, sat third in terms of interceptions, whereas additionally registering noteworthy numbers in terms of his cross completion share in addition to passes into the ultimate third.

Thus, all obtainable proof suggests Tıknaz is a high-quality, high-potential participant, one which Celtic ought to completely be trying to snap up.

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