{"id":113495,"date":"2025-09-04T08:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/113495\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T08:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:06:11","slug":"kasper-dolberg-lifts-lid-on-celtic-rejection-as-he-reveals-how-transfer-request-sparked-deadline-day-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/113495\/","title":{"rendered":"Kasper Dolberg lifts lid on Celtic rejection as he reveals how transfer request sparked deadline day move"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hoops failed in their attempts to sign the striker who has returned to former club Ajax<\/p>\n

22:07, 03 Sep 2025Updated 22:43, 03 Sep 2025<\/p>\n

Kasper Dolberg(Image: Ritzau Scanpix\/AFP via Getty Ima)<\/p>\n

Kasper Dolberg has revealed that he simply could not pass up the chance to re-join Ajax after snubbing Celtic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After agreeing a \u00a37million deal to sell Adam Idah to Swansea<\/a>, the Hoops saw two bids rejected by Anderlecht for the Denmark international, who reportedly had no interest in making the move to Parkhead.<\/p>\n

Instead, the 27-year-old – who has scored 44 goals across the last two seasons – has returned to Amsterdam six years after the Dutch giants sold him to Nice in Ligue 1 for \u00a319million.<\/p>\n

But in a social media message addressing his Anderlecht exit, Dolberg<\/a> insists he informed the club of his intentions as soon as he learned of Ajax’s interest.<\/p>\n

He wrote on Instagram: “Two years ago, I joined your club, that turned out to be exactly the right place for me.<\/p>\n

“No, we didn\u2019t win a trophy together. How I wish we could have shared that moment.<\/p>\n

However, we shared a lot of other things. Passion. Mutual respect. A city for my family. My little girls were born here. Brussels will always be special for us.<\/p>\n

“An opportunity to go back to Ajax arrived late in the window. I asked the club to allow the move to happen. I simply could not let this opportunity slip away to go back. To go home.<\/p>\n

Kasper Dolberg(Image: Belga\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m very grateful that Anderlecht has granted me this move. It shows the mutual respect we have had for each other over the past two years.<\/p>\n

“To you, fans: thank you for your continuous support. Amsterdam is not that far. Come and visit.”<\/p>\n

Despite Ajax<\/a>‘s late play to bring Dolberg back to the Johan Cruyff Arena, technical director Alex Kroes reveals that he had been on their radar for a significant period of time.<\/p>\n

Asked about how long Dolberg was on their list, he replied: “For months.<\/p>\n

“He became older and more mature (after leaving Ajax). He will never be the most extrovert person in the world but he doesn’t have to be.<\/p>\n

“He still has that flair. He has been scoring goals over the past years, very pretty goals.<\/p>\n

“He adds something to the team. We have him, Wout Weghorst and Don-Angelo Konadu.<\/p>\n

“He will get a chance to develop himself, there will be plenty of matches in which we will need all three of them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hoops failed in their attempts to sign the striker who has returned to former club Ajax 22:07,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[24129,7336,2817,18667,1669,218,54685,8058,101,2719,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-113495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-ajax","9":"tag-brendan-rodgers","10":"tag-celtic-fc","11":"tag-celtic-transfer-news","12":"tag-champions-league","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-kasper-dolberg","15":"tag-scottish-premiership","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-transfer-talk","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}