Celtic might finish Yang & Maeda’s Parkhead careers by signing SPFL star

Celtic wanted Benjamin Nygren to return off the bench to safe the three factors for Martin O’Neill‘s aspect within the 2-1 win over Aberdeen on Wednesday night time.

The Hoops had been drawing 1-1 with the Dons, after Kevin Nisbet cancelled out Kieran Tierney’s opener, and the Swedish star got here on to divert James Forrest’s cross into the again of the web.

Nygren has now scored 19 targets in all competitions for the Scottish Premiership giants in his first season in Glasgow, together with a return of 15 targets in 20 league begins.

The 24-year-old star, who has additionally registered 4 assists within the league, is the membership’s high goalscorer in all competitions and within the Premiership, having hit the bottom operating after his transfer from Denmark final summer season.

After usually enjoying with no consideration winger or as a centre-forward final season, it was considerably shocking to see Nygren emerge as an everyday starter in a central midfield position this time period.

The primary place Celtic have to strengthen this summer season

Celtic misplaced a big attacking risk once they offered Nicolas Kuhn to Como for £16.5m final summer season, because the German winger supplied targets and assists regularly.

The Hoops opted towards signing a pure proper winger, although, as they signed left wingers Michel-Ange Balikwisha and Sebastian Tounekti, leaving Forrest and Hyun-jun Yang as the principle right-sided choices.

Yang had a burst of 4 targets in seven video games between the twenty seventh December and the twenty fifth January when it regarded like he might nail down the precise wing spot, however he has failed to supply a aim or an help in 9 matches since that run.

Daizen Maeda has additionally been an possibility on the precise flank, however the Japan worldwide has failed to attain or help a aim in his final ten appearances in all competitions, and has solely scored seven targets from 11.53 xG within the Premiership.

Celtic, subsequently, are clearly in want of a proper winger to return in and at last exchange Kuhn as a result of Forrest is a veteran back-up, Maeda has underperformed considerably in entrance of aim, and Yang has lacked consistency in his play within the remaining third.

Celtic exhibiting an curiosity in Premiership winger

The Scottish giants appear to agree that they should bolster their choices in that space of the pitch, as a result of they’re reportedly involved in a Premiership proper winger.

In accordance with the Celtic Method, the Hoops have an curiosity in signing Motherwell winger Elijah Simply when the summer season switch window opens for enterprise on the finish of this season.

If the membership can get a deal over the road for the New Zealand worldwide forward of the 2026/27 marketing campaign, Simply might finish Yang and Maeda’s respective careers at Parkhead.

As aforementioned, Yang has struggled for consistency and Maeda has been extremely wasteful in entrance of aim, they usually may very well be on the chopping block in the summertime if the subsequent everlasting supervisor needs to reshape his attacking choices.

Signing Simply from Motherwell would offer the subsequent boss, whether or not that’s Martin O’Neill or an exterior substitute, with a winger who has extra to supply to the crew out huge than these two forwards.

The 25-year-old star, who was described as a “sensational” signing for Motherwell by Sky Sports activities pundit James McFadden, has confirmed himself to be an efficient performer at Premiership degree.

He has scored six targets from 5.37 xG within the league for Motherwell this season, which is a much more spectacular ending price than Maeda’s seven targets from 11.53 xG for the Hoops.

25/26 Premiership	Simply	Yang
Appearances	25	22
xG	5.37	5.34
Targets	6	4
Huge possibilities created	9	2
xA	5.13	1.87
Assists	6	0

Simply’s statistics compared to Yang additionally counsel that he can be an enormous improve on the South Korea worldwide, having scored extra targets and created greater than 4 occasions as many ‘massive possibilities’ within the league.

While there aren’t any ensures in soccer and his kind could not proceed in the identical manner at Celtic, the Motherwell star’s statistics this season point out that he can be the very best proper winger at Parkhead if he signed in the summertime.

Simply is a simpler finisher than each Maeda and Yang and gives far more creativity than the latter, who performs in the identical place, and his arrival in Glasgow might put each of their futures on the membership unsure.

If the New Zealand worldwide is available in to be the first-choice out huge for the Scottish giants, the 2 present Hoops gamers could have to think about whether or not or to not transfer on in the summertime window.