NICOLAS KUHN has been watched by Newcastle this season – but another club is preparing to put their interest in black and white.
That’s according to a report in Germany.
Nicolas Kuhn has had an incredible season at Celtic so far[/caption]
He arrived last January in a deal worth around £3million[/caption]
The winger previously played at Ajax (above) Bayern Munich and RB Leipzig[/caption]
The Celtic winger has been on inspired form this season – lighting up the Champions League against his fellow countrymen RB Leipzig and Bayern Munich.
He scored the opener in the Allianz Arena on Tuesday – six days after he thought he’d done likewise within 26 SECONDS at Parkhead.
And that sort of blistering form – and pace – has not gone unnoticed back home.
For a man who was pilloried by an Austrian football expert on his arrival in Glasgow he has revitalised his reputation and then some.
Kuhn has hit 18 goals this term – including three in the Champions League – and laid on 11 in 37 appearances so far.
There are plenty more opportunities to hit the half century before the summer too.
However then is when Celtic’s resolve may be tested.
The ex-Ajax and Rapid Vienna wide man is said to be on a three-man wanted list for Eintracht Frankfurt next season.
The Europa League winners of 2022 – at Rangers‘ expense – crashed out of the same competition to Roma this week.
But they are said to be keen on Kuhn as well as two others in a bid to bolster their attack for the new season.
Celtic would stand to make a significant profit on the 25-year-old they signed for £3million last January – IF they decided to cash in.
According to BILD and the Frankfurter Neue Presse he is a target alongside Ritsu Doan of Freiburg and Strasbourg’s Dilane Bakwa.
But Newcastle stole a march on the Germans and scouted him during the first leg of the Hoops Champions League knock-out play-off against Bayern Munich.
Earlier in the season he was also linked with a move to Brentford.
It’s a far cry from his arrival which was PANNED on Clyde 1’s SuperScoreboard by an Austrian football expert.
Dorian Schuster said Kuhn was “honestly terrible” when asked for an insider’s view on the incoming Celtic signing.
He did concede he was “a special player, in the sense that he has fantastic dribbling skills,” before a scathing assessment of his spell in Austria’s top flight.
Schuster added: “On the other hand his shooting is – honestly – sometimes terrible and he wastes many chances in the Austrian Bundesliga and that could be a major issue in the Champions League for Celtic.
Eintracht Frankfurt defeated Rangers in the 2022 Europa League final[/caption]
“He played in the second league in Germany and his first season in Vienna was quite a mess – he was quite often injured and he never reached the heights of his skills or fitness.
“Sometimes he was used as an attacking midfielder but is now only used on a right winger, his left foot is good as well. Cutting in on the left foot and his right is also good – there’s no worries about that.
“He never reached the first team at Ajax or Bayern Munich so he was loaned to a second-tier side in Germany and afterwards he moved to Rapid Vienna.
“I honestly don’t know if it will work out in the Scottish League.
“He is a fast player but as I mentioned injury prone and I don’t know if he will have fun with Scottish defenders.”
Kuhn though has proven his doubters wrong.
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