Eboue Kouassi has struggled for Celtic, but he could be so much more.
Eboue Kouassi might be leaving Celtic this summer without ever really establishing himself.
SDNA in Greece are claiming that Panathinaikos’ sporting director Nikos Dabizas is set to fly into Glasgow to hold talks with the Hoops about signing the 21-year-old midfielder.
But it’d be a mistake for Celtic to sell him.
He has hardly set the Scottish Premiership alight since joining the club for £3 million from Krasnodar in January of 2017 [BBC], but the Ivorian has a lot of potential.
Brendan Rodgers, who brought him to Scotland, was a fan.
In fact, the former Celtic boss once said that Kouassi would be Scott Brown’s long-term successor in the Bhoys’ midfield [The Scottish Sun], a big claim and one Rodgers wouldn’t have made if he didn’t absolutely believe it.
He definitely needs work, but why doesn’t Neil Lennon try source a loan to a Premiership club instead? It was the making of Kristoffer Ajer and Ryan Christie, so who’s to say that Kouassi, like his Celtic team-mates, couldn’t return a much better player with a year of regular football under his belt?
He won’t get that year under Lennon, given his wealth of options, but he would at a lot of Premiership clubs and a loan makes much more sense than a permanent sale for Celtic and Kouassi.
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