Shin Yamada – Underwhelming signings and surprise packages

Other will be prepared to trust the process and regard Shin Yamada as an interesting signing who may well follow in the footsteps of Kyogo Furuhashi, Daizen Maeda and Reo Hatate as being major performers for Celtic and all coming it at unbelievable prices.

Shin Yamada appears to be highly regarded in Japan and he is one we will give our full backing to when he arrives at the club, probably within the next seven days.

Celtic have reportedly raiding the J league once again, this time for centre forward Shin Yamanda for a fee of £1.5 million from Kawasaki Frontale, that’s Reo Hatate’s old club.

We are of course in need of strengthening the centre forward area, but it goes without saying that he’s not the man we were all hoping for.

With a career record of 37 goals in 123 games the 25 year old hardly screams ‘prolific’ striker, but is obviously the club’s choice to replace Kyogo Furuhashi, and Yamada will compete with Adam Idah, Callum Osmand and Johnny Kenny or the centre forward spot.

Watching clips of the player suggests he’s more of a versatile forward, one who likes to play in and around the box, and is tidy with the ball at his feet, so he could well be a player who comes into Brendan’s plans more often than not.

However the signing of Yamada doesn’t mask our disappointment of failing to land a proven striker from a much higher level. Don’t get me wrong I hope he has the same impact as Kyogo or Daizen Maeda, and like every other new signing he deserves our full backing once he pulls on those famous green and white hoops.

It just seems like a very underwhelming addition until we see him play then he’ll get our full support and every encouragement to make a name for himself alongside his international teammates Daizen Maeda and Reo Hatate.