Among the flurry of arrivals at Celtic Park in the last hours of transfer deadline was Feyenoord right back Jordan Lotomba…
The Swiss international signed a deal until the end of the season as Martin O’Neill swooped to strengthen the right back area in the midst of Alistair Johnston’s injury which will rule him out the Canadian international for up to eight weeks.
Some interesting news has since emerged, with it being claimed that Celtic turned down a loan transfer opportunity to sign Bayern Munich right back Sacha Boey.
The Bundesliga Champions were ‘open’ to talks with Celtic for their defender but the club opted for Lotomba instead – who subsequently signed on a season-long deal from Dutch side Feyenoord.
Swiss international Lotomba, 27, joined Celtic on 2nd September, which was effectively the club’s deadline day given their European squad submission requirements. Business officially concluded for Scottish teams the following day.
Former French youth international Boey is a player Celtic had previously shown an interest in back in 2021 whilst he was playing for Rennes, however the full-back decided to move to Galatasaray instead.
According to Mark Hendry writing via Celts are Here: “It is understood Celtic did speak with representation regarding the defender and had made it clear how much of his salary they were willing to pay.
And we understand Bayern would have had to eat a loss of around £2.7million, which they were willing to do. Ultimately, when it came down to the final decision, Celtic opted to go in a different direction.”
Such a claim will turn heads among the Celtic supporters, as Boey is clearly a player with real quality, having cost Bayern €30 million back in 2024, albeit he’s struggled to get regular game time, which resulted in the 25 year old returning to Galatasaray on a loan deal in the second half of last season.
Celtic however decided to pursue a deal with Swiss international Lotomba which hopefully is an indication that he too is going to be a top quality addition having beaten Boey to the chance to wear the hoops.
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2 Comments
It’s not rocket science, you know !
They got the guy from Feyenoord for fuck all £££.
It’s ALWAYS about the money with these parasites !
ALWAYS THE MONEY !!!!!
Why always trying to promote a negative spin upon points?
We already know that the final decision is made by MoN, upon potential incoming players?
So the negative spin is really directed at MoN and his decision making imo?
Boey did plenty of stalling regarding joining us in 2021. Ange had enough and opted for josip instead?
So how did that decision taken, actually work out for our club?
So now MoN has decided the flexibility element of Lotomba is a better option for how he intends to set up our team and match day squad?
Especially within our Scottish campaign, where the use of having full backs available to cover both positions. This applies even more so, with only using 2 defensive options on the subs bench, in a CB and now a full back, especially as Donovan can cover both full backs positions also?
That also allows for the extra midfield option, allowing for 6 midfielders, along with 6 attacking options within our 20man SPFL match day squad?
Even in our europa league campaign, we have 3 LB options now? 4 at RB?
Personally believe that there is nothing wrong with the decision taken by MoN whatsoever, the opposite in fact. Especially as we are well covered with the Thursday/Sunday turnaround in matches now, for the requirements needed for an entire season, especially if MoN is looking for our team to be playing with far more intensity that was on show last season?
So is that actually the wrong decision taken by MoN?
I don’t think so anyway.