Cho Kyu-seong is the greatest star born at the Qatar World Cup last year. It is not just a story within the standard of the Korean national team. His exciting multi-goal against Ghana drew the world’s attention. Interest in his outstanding appearance also exploded. A love call from European soccer continued for Cho Kyu-sung. Germany’s Bundesliga’s Mainz and Scotland’s strongest team, Celtic, were the most active teams to embrace Cho Kyu-sung. Celtic’s biggest rival, the Rangers, and North American Major League Soccer’s Minnesota also sent direct offers or interest to Cho.
Even a transfer fee approaching 4.5 billion won to Hanwha was mentioned, but after a long thought of nearly two months, Cho Kyu-seong decided to stay with his current team, Jeonbuk Hyundai. In the process of preparing for the 2023 season, Jeonbuk assigned the number 10, the symbol of the ace, as Cho Kyu-seong’s uniform number. He digested his battery training in Spain and steadily participated in practice matches. As January passed, the European football winter transfer window ended. The new transfer window opens in June, after the season ends. Mainz, in urgent need of reinforcements, brought in French national striker Ludovic Azorc.
Celtic also quickly changed targets. I bet on Suwon Samsung striker Oh Hyeon-gyu, who I was interested in along with Cho Kyu-seong. Oh Hyun-kyu, who went to the Qatar World Cup as a reserve member due to the uncertain speed of Son Heung-min’s recovery from injury, ended up remaining as the 27th member who could not play. However, Celtic had put Oh Hyun-kyu on the scouting list for nearly a year.
Oh Hyun-gyu, who was initially offered a transfer fee of about 1.5 billion won, wore a Celtic uniform with compensation of about 3.8 billion won through two adjustments to Suwon. In the game on February 12, he scored his debut goal after 4 matches after joining. Oh Hyun-kyu’s quick soft landing became a hot topic. 스포츠토토 Usually, there is a prejudice that if an Asian player goes to Europe through the winter transfer window, it is not easy to adapt and the chances of success are low. However, with Oh Hyun-gyu’s early momentum at Celtic, such talk is colorless. Meeting Anje Postecoglu, who has been coaching for a long time in Australia and Japan, is a good start. He had no prejudice against Asian players, and rather, he continued to play under the consideration of coach Anje, who had confidence in Oh Hyun-kyu. He played 8 minutes on his debut, 15 and 11 minutes later, and scored his debut goal on 12 February, playing 27 minutes.