Of more interest to Celtic fans is the prospect of Gustaf Lagerbielke coming in as a replacement from Elfsborg.
Recruiting players that are superior to the current squad while staying within a realistic salary range is proving to be the difficult part with the SPFL far from the most attractive of leagues for players to move to.
When Elfsborg defeated Sirius on Sunday, Starfelt’s agent Blash Hosseini appeared at Borås’ arena. Several sources state that the reason for the visit was to try to stitch together the Lagerbielke deal to Celtic.
If Starfelt moves to Vigo then he’ll be less than an hour’s flight from Lisbon as Celtic look to bring in a new central defender with Rodgers apparently unconvinced by Stephen Welsh and Liam Scales who played in the pre-season matches.
Throughout Ange Postecoglou’s two seasons in charge of Celtic Starfelt and Carter-Vickers was the first choice defensive pairing but it now looks unlikely that they will team up again.
Rodgers told Radio Scotland: “Carl may be leaving the club. He’s been fantastic but we may lose him. So this is a chance for Maik (Nawrocki) to build a partnership with Cameron Carter-Vickers.”
Trailing 2-1 and trying to force an equaliser a cross from the left fell to Carl Starfelt 15 yards from goal. These days many defenders go out to charge down a shot with their arms behind their back- not Goldson.
Starfelt was one of Ange Postecoglou’s first signings in July 2021, being pitched into his debut at Tynecastle as the hoops got off to a losing start under their new regime.
Welsh and Scales didn’t do themselves any harm today with transfer talk on those two shelved for now as Rodgers waits on progress on three central defenders currently unavailable.
Starfelt finished last season as the dominant force in the Celtic defence, a year ago he missed the entire pre-season through injury but now has the opportunity to emerge as a senior figure at the club.