Roger Hannah predicts four more arrivals at Celtic this summer | OneFootball

Roger Hannah believes Celtic still have a significant amount of work to complete in the transfer market, predicting the Scottish champions will make at least four more signings before the summer window closes.

With the countdown on to the Champions League play-off against LASK Linz, attention has turned to how quickly the club can strengthen, particularly with Arne Engels and Alistair Johnston both heavily linked with exits and Reo Hatate’s future also uncertain.

Speaking on Clyde Superscoreboard, Hannah admitted he had expected Celtic to be further along in their recruitment by this stage.

He said: “I thought they’d have more business done, to be honest.

“No one’s going to be surprised when Alistair Johnston and Arne Engels go.

“Could they have Julian Araujo lined up to replace Alistair Johnston? They look as if they’ve got Mika Baur from Paderborn lined up to replace Arne Engels.

“I would imagine they would [both go], so the key is replacing them.

“They should’ve had a left-back in; I thought Saracchi would come back, to be perfectly honest. It doesn’t look as if that’s going to happen.

“I don’t know who the left-back is going to be. We spoke last week about the potential of Greg Taylor coming back, or whether they’ve got something else up their sleeve.

“But there is work needing to be done, there’s no question about that. I would still expect there’s a chance that Hatate could go as well, he’s on the bench, so he’ll need replaced as well.

“There’s a transfer window open, so Celtic will sign a winger. They always do!

“So there’s a lot of business still to be done. I would expect Celtic to sign at least four more.”

Hannah also addressed Celtic’s ongoing search for attacking reinforcements, pointing to two names who have consistently featured in transfer speculation throughout the summer.

He said: “Haissem Hassan has steadily been linked through the summer.

“There’s talk of Saudi interest in him. As far as Fares Ghedjemis – who also seems to be interesting Rangers – he’s one that they like at Frosinone. Could he come in?

“They need to move quickly. Celtic don’t do things at the pace that some other teams do.

“We’re now down to the final month of the window. I’m saying they need to get four in. Some teams do four deals in a day. Celtic don’t do that.

“So if they’re going for deals for a right-back, left-back, central midfielder, winger, maybe one more… they’re going to have to start moving on them.

“But they don’t seem to want to move on them until somebody moves out.”

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