{"id":9776,"date":"2025-01-24T12:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T12:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/celtic-close-to-kyogo-furuhashi-sale-and-jota-return-from-rennes\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T12:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T12:47:08","slug":"celtic-close-to-kyogo-furuhashi-sale-and-jota-return-from-rennes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/celtic-close-to-kyogo-furuhashi-sale-and-jota-return-from-rennes\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic close to Kyogo Furuhashi sale and Jota return from Rennes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kyogo arrived at Celtic from Vissel Kobe for an undisclosed fee in July 2021 and has been one of the key players in the club&#8217;s domestic dominance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has won three Premiership titles, two Scottish Cups and two League Cups with the Glasgow club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His involvement in securing those titles was pivotal, scoring 85 goals in 165 games &#8211; including 137 starts &#8211; as well as providing 15 assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Japan forward, who was contracted to 2027, has scored 12 goals from 32 games this season as Celtic have opened up a commanding lead at the top of the Scottish Premiership and qualified for the knockout phase of the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He played for 75 minutes of Wednesday&#8217;s victory against Young Boys that secured Celtic&#8217;s progress to a Champions League play-off tie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kyogo scored his first Celtic goal in his first start against Jablonec in the Europa League in August 2021 and netted a 67-minute hat-trick in his next match &#8211; a 6-0 win against Dundee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His 20-goal tally in his first season included two strikes against Hibernian in the League Cup final at Hampden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The following campaign he opened the scoring against Inverness Caledonian Thistle in the final of the Scottish Cup that sealed the Treble. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also scored twice to see off Rangers in the Scottish League Cup final earlier that season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since his debut in the Premiership he has scored 63 goals, 12 more times than the next highest scorer, Lawrence Shankland, during that period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Find all the latest football transfers on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c5yd639d19po\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">dedicated page.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cqld2lyy46qo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyogo arrived at Celtic from Vissel Kobe for an undisclosed fee in July 2021 and has been one of the key players in the club&#8217;s domestic dominance. He has won three Premiership titles, two Scottish Cups and two League Cups with the Glasgow club. His involvement in securing those titles was pivotal, scoring 85 goals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9778,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9776\/revisions\/9778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}