Celtic will discover it as difficult to replace Daizen Maeda this summer time as they did Japan crew-mate Kyogo Furuhashi 18 months in the past, in accordance to former midfielder Scott Allan.
Reports claim Ipswich Town, promoted to the Premier League, have agreed a deal in precept with Celtic to signal 28-12 months-previous ahead Maeda for an preliminary £8m payment that might rise to £10m with add-ons.
BBC pundit and former Celtic striker Chris Sutton mentioned on X: “Maeda is worth much more than £10m and will find himself playing Championship football the following season. Bad deal for Celtic and Maeda.”
But Allan informed the BBC Scottish Football Podcast: “When they’re in the last year of their contract, it’s very hard to demand a lot more than that, especially when the player had already touched on last year that he was wanting to move.
“If Daizan Maeda has two, three years left his contract, I feel you get considerably greater than than £10m.”
Allan, though, suggests Celtic would be losing one of the key players who secured another league title last season through his “depth” and “operating energy”.
“Most importantly, the final two seasons he is added a number of targets to his sport and none extra so than after the [league] break up final season, when he actually got here alive and for me he was a catalyst to getting Celtic over a line,” he mentioned.
“So he is a big loss. He’s one of many gamers that is going to be actually arduous to replace for Celtic.
“They didn’t do it with Kyogo and the goals and the movement that he had up front. And I think they will really struggle to replace Maeda’s attributes as well.”
