Celtic ready for West Ham offer as January transfer price tag set for Cameron Carter-Vickers
Celtic are after a bid “well in excess” of the £6million they paid for Cameron Carter-Vickers amid interest from West Ham, according to the Daily Record.
The Scottish outlet reported on its online edition Tuesday (16 January) that West Ham have joined Premier League rivals Brentford and Nottingham Forest in showing an interest in the defender.
Carter-Vickers, who joined Celtic from Tottenham on a four-year deal in June 2022 after an initial season on loan, has made exactly 100 appearances for the Scottish side.
The Daily Record report reads: “Cameron Carter-Vickers is wanted by West Ham, Nottingham Forest and Brentford. The Premier League trio have been monitoring the Celtic defender throughout this season.
“And while it would take a bid well in excess of the initial £6million the Hoops paid Tottenham to prise him away from Glasgow, the Parkhead hierarchy are bracing themselves for offers arriving.”
Question marks
This is an interesting development from West Ham’s perspective. The Irons are already well stocked at centre-back following the arrival of Konstantinos Mavropanos last summer.
Kurt Zouma, Angelo Ogbonna and Nayef Aguerd are also on the Hammers’ books, so there are plenty of options for David Moyes to choose from right now.
That said, question marks over the future of Aguerd refuse to go away, and it may well be that fresh interest is shown in the Morocco international from elsewhere later this year.
Ogbonna is now aged 35, meanwhile, and is surely coming to the end of his West Ham career.
That could explain why Carter-Vickers is being eyed up – a centre-back with experience of playing in Europe for Celtic.
The 26-year-old hardly had the best time of things during his previous spell in English football – he failed to make a single league appearance for Spurs – but two-and-a-half years have passed since then.
For what should be a reasonable enough fee, this transfer should not be ruled out entirely.
In other West Ham news, a report has shared how the Irons could have fallen foul of the Premier League’s PSR regulations.