Journalist Christian Vaquero reports that Celtic will go after the signing of Haissem Hassan once again, only after they have dealt with the Kasper Høgh signing…
The Celtic supporters are growing increasingly frustrated and irritated at the lack of movement into the club currently, as there are glaring holes all over the place in Martin O’Neill’s squad. Having already lost several stars once the season finished in May, we are even lighter now than we were when we defeated Hearts to win the league at Celtic Park.
Julian Aruajo, Tomas Cvancara, Junior Adamu, Kelechi Iheanacho, and Marcelo Saracchi have all left the building at one point or another, whilst Daizen Maeda has completed a £10 million move to newly-promoted English Premier League club Ipswich Town, as the Japanese international closes the door on nearly five-years of loyal service at Paradise.
Depth has become a real issue now, not to mention the severe and alarming lack of quality on the wings at present too. As mentioned over and over again, Sebastian Tounekti and Michel-Ange Balikwisha are not the answer and it is very doubtful if they ever will be, to say the very least. Having wasted the guts of £10 million on those two deals, Celtic have nothing really to show for it.
Adding insult to injury, more money will have to be spent as the starting line-up is still missing Jota and James Forrest is just too old to be playing those kind of minutes now that Martin O’Neill will require, even if he does still produce the odd moment of magic nowadays.
24-year-old Egyptian star Haissem Hassan was said to be in talks with the club and had even agreed terms on a four-year deal. However, Celtic and Real Oviedo still cannot find a breakthrough in negotiations just now, meaning the player isn’t going anywhere for the time being, in what is turning into a miniature saga along with the Mika Baur deal from SC Paderborn too.
Journalist Christian Vaquero has claimed though that the Bhoys are waiting until the Kasper Høgh deal is done and dusted, before going back in with an improved offer for Oviedo’s star winger. Discussing the ongoing situation for the World Cup performer on his social media page on X, he said:
“Celtic WILL RETURN for Haissem Hassan after the signing of Kasper Hogh. The first offer of 4M€ was rejected by Real Oviedo, but after the sale of Maeda it’s expected that they’ll come back with an offer close to 5.5M€.”
🚨 El Celtic VOLVERÁ por Haissem Hassan tras el fichaje de Kasper Hogh.
🇪🇬 La primera oferta de 4M€ fue rechazada por el Real Oviedo, pero tras la venta de Maeda está previsto que volverán con una oferta cercana a los 5’5M€. https://t.co/RHNBzfTRJm
— Christian Vaquero (@ChristianVaq0) July 26, 2026
Hopefully this is accurate and the club will go back in for Haissem Hassan and get the deal sorted once and for all.
The only thing casting doubt on this reporting though, is the issue of Celtic now stepping up their pursuit of Lazio winger Matteo Cancellieri, as previously reported on Celtic Shorts, with it highly unlikely the club would be looking at signing both men during this summer’s recruitment drive.
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Supporters ha e to wait for officail Celtic F.C 1888 to tell you when players are signed any other notification is just quess work our transfer strategy is changed sort things out with player and agent signed then talk to club we have renewed contracts for some players and have bought players with a few still in negotiations and look like signing don’t read scottish media if its good for our club Celtic F.C.1888 they won’t print lot of good news is coming out of our officail bulletin not like the rest we are going for class not numbers