Are Norwich are still in the race for Kasper Høgh? Celtic will have to face reality, he’ll cost at least £10 million…

Anthony Joseph dropped an update on X early this afternoon to say that Celtic are in talks with Bodø/Glimt with a view to signing, Kasper Høgh, the Danish international.

However, Norwich City apparently remain in the race to sign the player too.

Unlike Celtic, they lodged a bid of £6.9 million last January.

That is slightly under the valuation placed on him by Bodø/Glimt.

But it set the barometer for bidding.

UPDATE: Celtic are in talks to sign Bodo/Glimt striker Kasper Hogh.

The Hoops have held a long-term interest in the Denmark international and made an enquiry for him in January.

Norwich City also made a £6.9m bid for Hogh then, but the 25yo decided to stay for the #UCL run. https://t.co/Srru6VmAgt

— Anthony Joseph (@AnthonyRJoseph) July 23, 2026

The reality is that Celtic are unlikely to land Høgh for less than £10 million.

Especially if Norwich remain interested in the player.

At the start of this month, Read Norwich posted an article stating with the headline, Høgh Fee Surge Gives Clement A Norwich Striker Reality Check.

I have supplied a link to the article in it’s entirety, but this paragraph in particular piqued my interest:

The Danish striker was firmly on the Canaries’ radar in January, when The72 reported that Norwich had made a bid for the Bodo/Glimt forward amid the Josh Sargent stand-off. Five months later, the picture looks very different. Sportsboom reported in April that Bodo/Glimt’s valuation had climbed into the EUR15m to EUR18m range after Hogh’s European form accelerated his market.

Now, the €15m to €18m price range is much closer to £10 million than the £7 million we’re hearing being quoted in the media of late.

If this is the kind of money Bodø/Glimt are looking for their player, then Celtic are either getting serious, or they’re just pissballing about.

Anthony Joseph might say that Celtic are in talks, but talks might be as far as it goes.

In January, Norwich’s £6.9 million bid was firmly rejected.

Which would indicate that £7 million certainly isn’t going to lure Høgh to Celtic.

We’re going to have to work much harder than that to secure his services.

Norwich themselves understand that Høgh’s current valuation comes from the risk of waiting and allowing his cost price to climb upward.

This particular segment from the Read Norwich article talks complete sense:

Norwich’s January interest made football sense. Hogh had already built a strong scoring profile in Norway, with TalkSport noting at the time that he had scored 17 league goals and produced Champions League moments powerful enough to drag wider attention onto Bodo/Glimt.

The problem is that those are precisely the indicators that rarely stay affordable. Once a forward proves he can score domestically, carry threat in Europe and attract interest beyond one league, the fee moves faster than the buying club’s planning cycle.

And this is exactly what Celtic are up against while they’re in ‘talks’ with Bodø/Glimt.

As a result of his increase in valuation, it’s unlikely that Norwich will remain in the hunt for the Danish international.

But as a club, they’ve figured out two important things.

Firstly, when you show interest in a player, waiting and ‘dithering’ – as Celtic are wont to do – results in clubs upping the ante when it comes to their player valuations.

You would think Celtic in their dealings with the very same club we’re discussing, might have learned that lesson with Adam Idah?

Norwich originally wanted £6 million for Idah, Celtic’s ‘dithering’ – in concjunction with their opening lowball offer of £3.5 million – resulted in them having to pay £9 million for Idah in the end.

Secondly, the ‘fee moves faster than the buying club’s planning cycle’.

In Celtic’s case, the fees have moved quarter of a century beyond their planning cycle.

Which means one of two things in the Celtic’s pursuit of Kasper Høgh.

The club is either getting real when it comes to player purchases, and valuations that don’t tie in with the year 2000.

Or they’ll remain in ‘talks’ with Bodø/Glimt until they’re no longer in ‘talks’ with them.

Which will most likely end abruptly if they try to lowball the Norwegian side when it comes to their valuation for the player.

The reality here is that the money made from the sale of Maeda should be ringfenced for this deal.

I would be shocked if Bodø/Glimt will accept anything less than £10 million for Høgh.

Developing story here.

Let’s see how this one pans out…

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