Rosenborg and Denmark U21 forward Casper Tengstedt has opened up on his Premier League ambitions, telling TV2 that playing for Liverpool is his ‘dream’.
Erling Haaland is not the only free-scoring Scandinavian with more goals to his name than games this season.
Tengstedt, since swapping Horsens for Norwegian outfit Rosenborg over the summer, has found the target eight times in just seven outings for his new employers. Maintain this current form and it won’t be long before bigger fish start flocking to northern waters, even if Anfield currently feels like a destination well in the distance.
“My dream is to one day play in Liverpool,” explains Tengstedt. “Of course, you have to be allowed to dream.
“But, otherwise, I don’t have a career plan that says I want to go to Spain or Germany. I try to take it as it comes. I try to follow my gut feeling, just like when Rosenborg approached me.
“It was a crazy feeling (scoring so many goals). I thought; ‘hang on, that’s a bit surprising’. It was perhaps not what you had expected.”
Will Casper Tengstedt turn his Liverpool ‘dream’ into a reality?
As you might have expect, given Tengstedt’s current form, Rosenborg are flying high in Norway’s Eliteserien. The most successful side in the competition’s history are currently in third place, albeit some way behind runaway leaders Molde.
“We shouldn’t praise him too early,” head coach Kjetil Rekdal says of Tengstedt. “But he is a fantastic finisher. It is good when he gets chances.”
“(His form) is beyond expectation. He is a good striker at a good age. We can only hope that we can keep him.”
Tengstedt scored a more-than respectable 23 goals in 35 games during a fabulous final season at Horsens in his native Denmark, while setting up a further 10 more for his team-mates. You’d certainly struggle to find a better pound-for-pound signing at just £850,000.
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