Celtic told £10m transfer left Brendan Rodgers Treble bid ‘exposed’

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Celtic have done some sterling work in the transfer window over the past few years.

Buying players like Matt O’Riley, Reo Hatate and Alistair Johnston has proven that Celtic can find quality players without having to spend fortunes.

In turn, those players then get sold on for a vast profit as Celtic reap the financial rewards of a sound recruitment policy that keeps the club successful both on and off the park.

However, sometimes the club can get transfers wrong. Celtic fans have witnessed some players who have been brought in and fail to make the grade at the club.

But Celtic have been told that they left Brendan Rodgers’ treble bid ‘exposed’ after selling a player for £10m this season.

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Celtic selling Kyogo Furuhashi left Brendan Rodgers ‘exposed’

Kyogo Furuhashi left Celtic for Rennes in the January transfer window for a solid fee of £10m.

The Japanese striker was a revelation at Celtic but after it was agreed that he could leave the club in January, Peter Martin has claimed that the transfer left Brendan Rodgers’ treble bid ‘exposed’.

Martin told PLZ Soccer [33m 50s], “You’ve got to give Celtic credit for what they’ve achieved. I thought they played the best football I’ve seen in a long time from them in Munich in that stadium.

“But this is the point I’m making, of where it didn’t actually go according to plan for Brendan Rodgers in the treble.

“You cannot sell your best striker in a January transfer window and not replace him. They left the manager exposed. Exposed to a game that they might have won in Munich had they replaced him with an option of a striker to replace Kyogo’s goals.

“There are times when he might have been off the boil, but Kyogo, as a player, was somebody that could score goals.

“He could score them against Rangers, he could score them in big games. They exposed themselves in Munich when they didn’t have anybody to call on. And they exposed themselves again because, quite simply, they couldn’t break them down.

“They couldn’t get that movement that Kyogo has and when he wasn’t there, they didn’t replace him. And I thought that was the most telling part of it all.”

Kyogo Furuhashi’s excellent record at Celtic

Kyogo helped continue Celtic’s dominance of Scottish football after the blip that was the COVID season.

In his three-and-a-half years at Celtic, here is how Kyogo’s stats have fared:

Kyogo was clearly central to Celtic’s successes over the years but would he really have made the difference against Bayern Munich and Aberdeen?

Sadly, we will never know.