Celtic have signed Denmark forward Kasper Hogh on a four-year deal, with an option for a further year.<\/p>\n
Hogh, 25, joins from Bodo\/Glimt for a reported club-record fee of \u00a311 million as per British media reports.<\/p>\n
He scored 54 goals in 103 appearances for the Norwegian side in a two-year spell and played a key role in their Champions League campaign last season.<\/p>\n
“I’m so happy. When I came into the room and saw the shirt, I was really excited,” he said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“The history of the club is so big. I spoke with some people and with my family about the club.”<\/p>\n
Describing what Celtic fans can expect from him, the striker said: “I like to be in the box and score goals, but I also want to help my team-mates defensively and work hard for the team.<\/p>\n
“I’ve trained throughout the summer and I’ve already played league games in Norway, so I feel ready. I just want to get started and be thrown into the fire.”<\/p>\n
Celtic manager Martin O’Neill has welcomed the arrival of the striker to his playing squad.<\/p>\n
“I am delighted that Kasper has joined us,” Martin O’Neill said. “He is a player of real quality with a good level of experience of domestic and European competition.<\/p>\n
“Kasper is a goalscorer but also has a lot more to his game and I am sure our fans will like the way he plays.<\/p>\n
“The Club has done so well to secure a player of this quality and I am sure that Celtic and Kasper will be a really good match.<\/p>\n
“We look forward to introducing Kasper into the squad as we build towards the start of the season.”<\/p>\n
Hogh arrives following the departure of Daizen Maeda to Ipswich Town, ending the Japan international’s successful spell at Celtic after helping the club to win five league titles and five domestic cups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtic have signed Denmark forward Kasper Hogh on a four-year deal, with an option for a further year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-572758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}