Competing for the starting striker spot with Kyogo Furuhashi,<\/a> Idah scored in several vital wins in the title run-in.<\/p>\n His Hoops career peaked with the winning goal in a 1-0 Scottish Cup Final victory over Rangers \u2013 a goal which ensures he will be remembered at Celtic Park<\/a> forever.<\/p>\n This led Celtic to pay \u00a39 million to bring him to the club permanently, with the striker providing a return of 20 goals in his first full season \u2013 so his departure for South Wales for a financial loss was unexpected.<\/p>\n He has now made his debut for the Swans, in a 2-2 draw against Hull City \u2013 and after the match, their manager offered his verdict.<\/p>\n Swansea manager Alan Sheehan on Adam Idah debut<\/p>\n Idah was named among the substitutes for the game, with starting forward Zan Vipotnik \u2013 once linked with Celtic \u2013 opening the scoring for the Swans.<\/p>\n The Irishman replaced Vipotnik in the 64th minute with his side 2-1 ahead \u2013 but he couldn\u2019t prevent the win from slipping at the very end of injury time.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Jim White launches bitter attack on Celtic fan media after Russell Martin\u2019s Rangers exchange<\/a><\/p>\n Speaking on Idah after the match to the club\u2019s media channels, he said: \u201cI think that when he came on we were a small bit stretched. We were a bit in protection mode.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I think Adam will be a very good player for us. I think within that, it\u2019s a difficult game to come into, but we wanted to get him in and get him up to speed.<\/p>\n \u201cIt would\u2019ve been nice to not concede in the 97th minute, but that\u2019s the nature of the game. I\u2019m incredibly disappointed, but I also know we can do better.\u201d<\/p>\n It will be interesting to see whether Sheehan sticks with Vipotnik after his goal, or switches to starting their new \u00a37 million man in their upcoming Carabao Cup fixture against Ange Postecoglou\u2019s<\/a> Nottingham Forest.<\/p>\n Will Celtic miss Adam Idah\u2019s profile?<\/p>\n At six feet and three inches tall, Idah offered Celtic an outlet which wasn\u2019t available in other options such as Furuhashi and Daizen Maeda.<\/a><\/p>\n Kelechi Iheanacho<\/a> has been brought to Parkhead, making a positive start with the winning goal in Sunday\u2019s match against Kilmarnock<\/a> \u2013 but he does not have the same aerial prowess as Idah.<\/p>\n Johnny Kenny<\/a> and Shin Yamada<\/a> may both still be in the picture, but neither offers the physical profile of the Irishman.<\/p>\n Time will tell whether a lack of a \u2018big man up top\u2019 proves to be a problem for Rodgers this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Idah\u2019s move from Celtic to Swansea City came as a surprise. It was just 18 months ago…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[23924,7336,10043,218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-142789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-adam-idah","9":"tag-brendan-rodgers","10":"tag-celtic","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142789","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=142789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Adam](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2234577396-1024x683.jpg\")
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