Benjamin Nygren is currently the frontrunner to be Celtic’s Player of the Year.
Without often standing out for 90 minutes, the midfielder has still undoubtedly been one of the team’s most important players.
Without his goals – 19 at the moment, ten more than any other Celtic player – it doesn’t bear thinking about where Martin O’Neill’s side would currently be in the table.
Despite Nygren’s contribution, however, his recent performances on the international stage have led to some daft conversations online.
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Nygren contributed to goals in both the semi-final and final of Sweden’s World Cup qualifying play-offs, in which they were ultimately successful.
In both games, the Celtic man started in Graham Potter’s front three alongside £58m Viktor Gyokeres and £54m Anthony Elanga.
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Logically, this means that Nygren’s value will now have skyrocketed since his £1.28m move to Glasgow ahead of this season.
Some Celtic fans have noted this as being reason enough to sell in the summer, given that he has reached peak value.
But has anyone remembered that we are Celtic fans, not businesspeople? Cheering on the sale of one of your team’s best players as a fan is simply bizarre.
Sometimes, a player becomes so in-demand that a sale is inevitable, like Moussa Dembele in 2018 or Matt O’Riley in 2024.
But this isn’t one of those cases. Nygren has plenty of room to improve, despite his exceptional goal record. Jumping at another ‘step up’ from Celtic would be a major risk.
It’s far from a guarantee that he will leave this summer; Daizen Maeda, for instance, looks far more likely to call time on his Glasgow spell after three-and-a-half years.
That fact makes it even more strange that fans would like to see Nygren walk out alongside him, leaving the team’s already-lacking attack even more decimated.
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In Kyogo Furuhashi, Adam Idah and Nicolas Kuhn, Celtic lost an incredible amount of goals in 2025, 53 to be precise.
Fans who celebrated the “high value” sales of that trio are probably the ones now ruing Celtic’s struggles in attack this season.
Time and time again, the club’s recruitment has shown that they can’t be trusted with money – we’d be better off with good players on the pitch.
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