Bojan Miovski found the net against at Rangers on Wednesday night with one pundit feeling that Celtic missed a trick not bringing the £8 million-rated goalscorer to Parkhead during the January transfer window.
Neil Warnock, after his first game in charge of Aberdeen, described Bojan Miovski as the finest centre-forward in Scottish football. On this evidence, it is difficult to disagree. Miovski took his tally to 20 goals for the season at Ibrox, and in some style too, shrugging off Connor Goldson and flicking the ball brilliantly past Jack Butland.
And, with Kyogo Furuhashi struggling to rediscover the form of the Ange Postecoglou era and with the signing of Adam Idah hardly one to get the blood pumping, former Dundee, St Mirren and Kilmarnock ace Stephen McGinn cannot understand why Celtic did not throw every penny in their coffers at Aberdeen’s direction.
Celtic told they should have signed Bojan Miovski
“The Miovski one, I just can’t get my head around,” McGinn tells Go Radio. “Celtic play one up front in Kyogo. He’s not hit the same heights (as in previous seasons).
“(Miovski) can occupy two centre-halves. Is he the finished product in terms of a Celtic Champions League striker? No. But is anybody that they sign? He’s 24 and an international. I just felt it was a no-brainer.”
According to Sky Sports, Aberdeen want £8 million for Miovski. Such a fee means Celtic would have to break a Scottish Premiership record, with the Montenegrin marksman becoming the most expensive player ever to move between two top-flight clubs.
Rodgers, meanwhile, is throwing his backing behind Idah, even if his arrival has done little to quell the fears of supporters concerned that an underwhelming window could hand Rangers the advantage in the Premiership race.
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“The thing is he’s got 20 odd games behind him this season (for Norwich City) before coming to us. So he’s game ready and fit and ready to play,” Rodgers tells the Daily Record, Celtic travelling to Hibernian tonight.
“If I can unlock the talent, he has then this is a boy that can be a top-level striker. He’s not just a boy where, even if you max out everything, he can only get to a certain level. This is everything – this is 6ft 2in, power, speed.
“So once he finds the relationships with the other players and the runs – and we’ll play to his strengths because he wants to run in behind – then he’s going to be a real handful. Then working with him on the training pitch and seeing his finishing yesterday – left foot, right foot, spin, strike – he was absolutely brilliant.
“Last time, when I was here, we had the beginnings of what was going to be a great combination between Moussa Dembele and Odsonne Edouard. It was all set and it was really exciting. But then obviously we lost one (Dembele joining Lyon).
“But there’s a chance for us to do that over the coming months to give us that threat and that quality while still maintaining the structure we want to play with.”
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