Kyogo Furuhashi is widely expected to leave Celtic for Rennes in the coming days.
The Japanese international striker is thought to have agreed a deal to leave the Bhoys for Rennes in a deal worth £10m to Celtic.
The 30-year-old is undoubtedly the best striker in the Celtic first-team and with the club fighting on four competition fronts this season, they need all the goals they can get. But with Kyogo’s Celtic exit almost complete, Chris Sutton is not happy with what he’s been hearing the fans say about the sale of the club’s best player.
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Chris Sutton ‘doesn’t get’ what Celtic fans are saying about Kyogo Furhashi’s sale to Rennes
Sutton told It’s All Kicking Off [27m], “Oh, I mean, the biggest transfer story is that and I don’t get this, I’d love your opinion on this.
“So Celtic have qualified for the playoff round of the Champions League, Battle of Britain in the week against Aston Villa and it looks like there’s a deal done for their main striker, Kyogo Furuhashi, the Japanese international, to go to Rennes in Ligue 1, who I think they’re 14th [in the league].
“I do not get why, I know a lot of Celtic fans are saying and this is the club thought process, £10 million pounds for a 30-year-old, that’s good money. Well, it is good money, but even if you sold him in the summer, you wouldn’t get a lot less than that.”
Chris Sutton is not happy with Celtic’s ‘mindset’ on the Kyogo sale
The Celtic hero goes on further to re-iterate his thoughts on the Parkhead club’s ambition after they have allowed Kyogo to work his ticket out of Glasgow.
“But why on earth,” Sutton continued, “I don’t get Celtic’s mindset with this one? Why don’t they try and progress further in the Champions League?
“Keep your best player, your best forward, that gives you a better chance of qualifying for the next stage. It feels like they’ve hit the ceiling, or they have a ceiling.
“Into the playoffs, it doesn’t matter. We don’t go any further. We’ve done enough. I don’t like that.”
Callum McGregor summed up Kyogo’s Celtic situation perfectly when the captain said that whilst he will be gutted to lose his teammate, the club will always go on.
Celtic fans will always remember the time when the club kept players who wanted to leave in the COVID season so that they could push for ten-in-a-row.
They all know what happened after that and whilst we are not suggesting that this could happen with Kyogo by any stretch of the imagination.
However, keeping a player who clearly wants to leave Celtic could end up being counter-productive in the longer term whether it be the value the club get for him or the affect it could have in the dressing room and, clearly, Brendan Rodgers and Celtic don’t want to risk either.
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