Celtic and Norwich City sweating on Kasper Høgh transfer after big Wednesday development | OneFootball

The Championship club and the SPFL giants have already started a bidding war for the Danish forward, but his price might be set to get even higher.

Norwich City and Celtic have already started a tug-of-war over the Danish forward Kasper Høgh, but his price may be about to rise as a result of his exploits in the final round of Champions League group matches.

The final evening of Champions League group fixtures was an eventful evening, but few were more eventful than at the Metropolitano in Madrid, where a shock 2-1 win for the Norwegian side Bodø/Glimt secured their passage to the knockout stage of the competition by the slimmest possible margin, on goal difference above four other clubs who were all tied on the same number of points.

This win could have significant ramifications in the Championship, where Norwich City have already become involved in something of a tug-of-war with the Scottish giants Celtic over the Danish forward Kasper Høgh. Both clubs have already submitted a bid for the forward, but Høgh's exploits in Madrid might just have pushed his price up a notch, or might even persuade his club that it's worth holding onto him until the end of their Champions League campaign.

Høgh goal could throw a spanner in the works of Norwich City plans

The Scottish Sun reported on Wednesday evening that Høgh's performance in Madrid "sent a potent reminder of what Kasper Hogh could do for them tonight," but also that "Bodø/Glimt may now want to keep him for the latter stages or indeed could rightly demand a higher fee for him.

They'd previously reported that Celtic had made a £6 million bid for the forward which his club, who paid just £600,000 for him two years ago, would find difficult to ignore, only to follow that up with a further report that Norwich City had gazumped them with an offer of "just under £7 million" for the player, confirming that the Championship club were now "locked in talks" with him.

This wasn't the first time that Høgh had caused a Champions League upset this season

Wednesday night wasn't the first time that Kasper Høgh has caused a surprise in the Champions League this season. Just over a week earlier he'd netted a brace as his team beat Manchester City 3-1 to keep their involvement in this year's competition alive.

And his goalscoring exploits haven't been limited to the Champions League since he joined Bodø/Glimt from another Norwegian side, Stabæk, in 2024. He scored seven goals in 14 games for them in a Europa League run which took them all the way to the semi-finals of that competition last season before losing narrowly to Spurs (a match in which Høgh missed a penalty), while over two seasons in the Norwegian league, the Eliteserien, he's scored 29 goals in 51 league appearances.

All of this adds up to a potential spanner in the works of any transfer happening before the end of the January transfer window. £7 million would be a lot of money to Bodø/Glimt, but the possibility of going further in the Champions League would be worth considerably more than that to them, and they could easily decide that it would be a calculated gamble to keep him until at least the summer.

Even in the event that they decide that an offer in excess of ten times what they paid for him in the first place from Norwich isn't something that they can ignore, the player himself could decide that he wants to stay with the club to see how far he can help to take them in that competition. The Norwegian league is a summer league which doesn't restart until March, so both the player and his club can be fully focused on that competition.

With just a few days left before the January transfer window closes, Norwich City, who desperately need a new attacking option, with the departure of Josh Sargent still looking close to certain, may yet find that they have to look elsewhere for attacking reinforcement, for this transfer window at the very least.