Should Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers try and sign his former player?
It’s taken a few months, but Celtic are finally top of the Scottish Premiership table. Brendan Rodgers’s side drew 0-0 at Livingston on Sunday to earn the point needed to move above Hearts on goal difference.
It’s the first time that Celtic have reached the summit this season following a disappointing start to the campaign and you wonder if they’ll relinquish top spot from here en route to an eighth successive Premiership title – and third under Rodgers.
Of course, winning the title isn’t going to be enough for the Bhoys. They will also want the Scottish League Cup and Scottish Cup to complete an unprecedented ‘treble treble’ after Rodgers led them to a clean sweep of domestic honours during his first two years in Glasgow.
You get the feeling that the Northern Irishman will need reinforcements in January if he is to deliver three more Scottish trophies this season, and one man who will almost certainly help that dream become a reality is Divock Origi.
Signed by Rodgers for Liverpool in 2014, Origi, who cost £10 million [The Guardian], has managed only 12 minutes of competitive football under Jurgen Klopp this season and is clearly surplus to requirements, often failing to even make the German manager’s bench on a weekly basis.
It isn’t imperative that Celtic sign another striker, considering they have Odsonne Edouard and Leigh Griffiths, but Rodgers hasn’t yet replaced Moussa Dembele, who joined Lyon in September.
Plus, Rangers will almost certainly add another striker in January, to compete with Alfredo Morelos and Kyle Lafferty. They are both brilliant and although the same is true of Griffiths and Edouard, Celtic can’t afford to risk their season on both of them staying fit, not when Griffiths has missed the last month through injury.
Given his profile, Origi would be a blockbuster signing by the Parkhead club and one that might just give them the edge over Rangers and Hearts.
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