Cho Kyu-seong, ‘stock price skyrocketing’, is it Mainz or Celtic?
Europe’s interest in Cho Kyu-seong (Jeonbuk), who played a big role in the 2022 Qatar World Cup, is hot.
Initially, Cho Kyu-sung was strongly connected to Celtic, a prestigious Scottish club. However, Germany’s first division Bundesliga Mainz belatedly jumped into the scouting match and quickly emerged as the next destination.
The British newspaper Evening Standard reported on the 7th (Korean time), “Cho Kyu-sung will choose to move to Germany’s Mainz instead of Scotland’s Celtic in the winter transfer market.”
The media added a detailed explanation, saying, “Jeonbuk’s technical director, Park Ji-sung, is in the process of negotiating a transfer with Mainz in London, England.”
If Cho Kyu-seong wears a Mainz uniform, he can go straight to the German Bundesliga, Europe’s top 5 league. Mainz has the advantage that it is easy to adapt because Lee Jae-seong, a teammate and senior, is playing. 메이저놀이터
Mainz finished the first half of the season in 10th place with a record of 5 wins, 4 draws and 6 losses (19 points). However, it is known that the team is considering signing a striker as the team scored a rather meager 19 goals in 15 matches.
It seems that he was attracted to Cho Kyu-seong, who was the first Korean player to score multiple goals in one game at the World Cup, and his physical ability is not inferior to European players at all.
Then Celtic fell on fire. Jeonbuk’s
Appetite by Raising Transfer Fee Sky Sports, a British media outlet, reported on the 8th that “Celtic offered Jeonbuk 3 million pounds (approximately 4.6 billion won) to recruit Korean striker Cho Kyu-sung.”
Jeonbuk, the original team, wants Cho Kyu-sung to play only in the first half of this year and advance to the big stage through the summer transfer market rather than going straight to Europe in the winter. Above all, I have no intention of sending Cho Kyu-seong, who won the K-League 1 top scorer last season, at a bargain price.
However, if a reasonable transfer fee is set for the player’s ransom, there is no way to break Cho Kyu-sung’s will to advance to Europe in Jeonbuk-do.
In addition, Fenerbahce (Turkiye), PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands), and Stade Rennes (France) were mentioned as European clubs that showed interest in Cho Kyu-sung, but at present, one of Celtic and Mainz, whose recruitment situation has been captured, is Cho Kyu-sung. is likely to become a new destination for