Fulham striker Callum Osmand is due to have a medical with Celtic ahead of a proposed move north of the border for a nominal fee.
The Welsh youth international is out of contract at Craven Cottage this summer and has been lured to the Scottish giants after a personal approach from Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers. The 19 year-old, who scored a hat-trick in last season’s Premier League Cup final against Tottenham Hotspur at Craven Cottage, has enjoyed an excellent season for Fulham’s under-21s – scoring eighteen goals in 31 games.
Celtic website Celts Are Here broke the news of Osmand’s impending medical earlier this afternoon. The teenager is expected to become part of Celtic’s first-team squad for the new season and will only cost the Bhoys a development fee – in a similar sort of deal to the one that saw them sign former Fulham academy graduate Moussa Dembele in 2016.
Osmand’s decision represents a blow for Marco Silva, who had included him in first-team training several times this season, and leaves the Whites with just Raul Jimenez and Rodrigo Muniz as recognised senior strikers.
What the hell are we playing at. Saw him score that hatrick last year in the final. Left foot, right foot and header. A terrific prospect and we let him slip away to go and play in the Mickey Mouse league.
Why and how we let this young gem leave ! A good young promising striker !!
Can’t be very ambitious has trained with first team knows he’s not good enough to get in, can’t count hatricks in u21s to premiership it’s very low standard I’m afraid just proves how poor Scottish football is if he’s gonna jump straight in first team. U21s not only ours struggle when they play 1st and 2nd division sides good like to him got chance of men’s football
Of course…Ousmane joins a sad list of youth players who just slip away after not being advanced and encouraged by the club…this one is bitter though…a genuine striker…we all know the list but we don’t know why this keeps happening…as we sit on our hands waiting for acquisitions that will only come on deadline day we lose Osmand…where’s the rationale for Marco to stay?
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He was obviously a good prospect why did we not give him a contract and send him out on loan for a season. Another opportunity for a young player lost Whose responsibly is it to make these crazy decisions
Sadly your a smaller team in a big league …he’ll never play in Europe either for Fulham…Celtic will pay him more and give him Champions league…its a no trainer really for the lad.
He was offered a contract but turned it down so I’m not sure why the club is to blame. He’s presumably been promised some first team football at Celtic which he won’t get with us probably because he’s not actually good enough. Maybe in time he would be but when I saw him play for the U21s he seemed way below the standard we require – not that I’m any sort of judge of course.
Most SPL games are probably of League 1 standard. We need much better for our first team which makes it ultra tough for kids who may not have the confidence and patience to stick with us.
My question, do we need an academy?
If so, what purpose does it serve?
As there seem to be no pathway to the 1st team squad.
Sadly, this Club has no intension of using the development players and Josh King will be the next on our leavers conveyor belt.