Celtic supporters haven’t been shouting too loudly about the new signings that have come into the building this summer.
In total, seven new players have been added to Brendan Rodgers’ squad for the forthcoming campaign from the 2025 summer transfer window.
Two of those players are the versatile attacker Benjamin Nygren, who arrived from FC Nordsjælland, and Hayato Inamura, who can also play in multiple roles, and joined from the J-League in Japan.
Whilst the Celtic Park faithful have expressed their frustration at how the window has gone or is going, you probably can’t argue too much about what is being produced by the above two so far.
Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty ImagesWhat is being said about Celtic duo Hayato Inamura and Benjamin Nygren
What’s interesting here is that, even though Nygren plays on the right, he has played as an eight in pre-season, and Inamura has been deployed at left-back, despite being a natural left-sided centre-half.
Either way, former Celtic youth player and boyhood fan Paul Slane told Open Goal that he has heard how Inamura has been ‘outstanding’ so far.
Slane also wanted to give Nygren his flowers, including suggestions that he has ‘looked better than (Arne) Engels’ in the middle of the park.
Si Ferry asks: “Have you heard anything about the new signings?”
Slane responds: “Inamura, I heard, has been outstanding. (He could play) left centre-half and left-back. Nygren has been incredible. A lot of people compared it to Engels, saying that he looks a lot better than Engels.”
James McFadden’s take on Celtic signing Nygren
The transfer fee Celtic paid for Nygren was £2 million, and just like Nicolas Kuhn and Matt O’Riley previously, this could prove to be another serious bit of business.
There is the other side, and that’s Engels being purchased for a club-record transfer of £11 million, which has always been used against him.
But, as James McFadden wanted to highlight, it’s all about getting the ‘right player’ in, and nothing else.
“He (Nygren) was worth what £1.5 million?” asks McFadden. “And he (Engels) was £11 million. I get that you want to buy these players.
“But as long as it is the right player. You can’t just go and say, ‘right, we have signed a player for £10 million, and he is going to be brilliant.’”