Celtic fans have taken to Twitter to react after a journalist named Ignazio Genuardi revealed that the Hoops hope to retain the services of Odsonne Edouard beyond the current campaign, and plan to achieve this with a lucrative contract offer.
Genuardi reports that the reigning Scottish champions are set to offer the French forward a ‘significant salary increase’ as well as an agreement to let him leave in the summer of 2021.
Premier League outfit Leicester – who are looking a good bet to achieve a place in the Champions League for next season – are believed to be sniffing around the former Paris Saint-Germain striker, although Neil Lennon would surely love to keep hold of the 22-year-old given his absurd numbers so far this season.
Edouard has netted an extraordinary 26 goals while also grabbing an eye-catching 17 assists in 43 games for the Hoops this term, having also scored 22 goals last season – he really is becoming a truly brilliant centre-forward.
It comes as no surprise that Leicester are interested, but it should be encouraging for Celtic supporters to see that the club are making every effort to keep their prize asset.
Let’s see how the Celtic fans on Twitter reacted to the news…
To kick off the reaction, one fan said it would be amazing if Celtic could keep Edouard for one more season – given how well he has played this term, and his obvious improvement from last season, the Frenchman could fire the Hoops to even better things next year.
Elsewhere, these fans outlined how much they’d like the exit clause in Edouard’s contract to be.
One fan imagined it would be £35m, while another said that it should be no less than £50m – it seems optimistic that Celtic will make the latter fee on their striker, although given his importance to the club, they can quite rightly demand whatever they want.
Lastly, ‘SM’ said that Peter Lawwell runs Celtic and expressed doubt that any kind of gentleman’s agreement will be made.
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However, given everything Edouard has done for the club, it would be cruel to deny him an exit and a chance to play at the highest level.
In other news, Scott Brown has posted a 12-word Instagram message after the win over St Johnstone…
