Jordan Larsson is about to be out there as a free agent because the son of Celtic legend Henrik has his contract at Spartak Moscow ripped up. And he is beforehand admitted an emotional transfer to Celtic could be arduous to show down - even when following in his dad's footsteps could be a frightening job.
Larsson Jr was sizzling property at Spartak and netted a powerful 26 objectives his first 62 appearances in Russia. However he was loaned out to AIK in April amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Fabrizio Romano reported on Monday that he's set to depart the Moscow membership on a free switch.
It is claimed he is had a number of approaches already after discovering his taking pictures boots once more in Sweden and though it is unclear if Celtic are amongst them, he was linked with a swap to Glasgow again in 2020. Coming off the again of his first season in Russia, he admitted then it was "tempting" attributable to his dad's connection at Parkhead - though conceded it may very well be a hinderance as he seems to carve out his personal identify.
He mentioned: “For me Celtic will all the time have a particular place in my coronary heart. Not that I’ve performed there in that sense, nevertheless it was the primary place the place I noticed soccer as a younger child going with my mom to see video games when my father was taking part in.
"That’s the place I've the most important recollections in my head: ‘You’ll By no means Stroll Alone’ you may have all of the scarves earlier than the video games and every part so in fact it would all the time have a particular place in my coronary heart. However on the similar time, since my father is who he's on the membership, I believe for me personally if I might ever have the possibility to play there then I want to set up myself much more, make my very own identify earlier than I might play there. However in fact it’s tempting.”
Celtic are well-stocked on the striker entrance with Kyogo and Giorgos Giakoumakis set to battle it out for begins subsequent season. A brand new midfielder is believed to be prime of the agenda as soon as offers for winger Jota and left-back Alexandro Bernabei are tied up.