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01-07-2025
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Excelsior sign ‘hard-working' midfielder Adam Carlén
Adam Carlén has arrived as Excelsior's latest signing. The Swedish midfielder from IFK Goteborg is the newest face at the Kralingen club, who earlier in the day presented Lewis Schouten (on loan from AZ). The 25-year-old Carlén has signed a two-year contract and comes over from the Allsvenskan, where he made a solid reputation for himself over the past two and a half years. Advertisement 'I am a hard-working player who gives everything for the team', he said of himself on the club website. 'My strength lies in protecting the defence and winning duels. I am looking forward to being on the pitch and playing for the fans of Excelsior.' At Excelsior, Carlén will meet fellow countryman Casper Widell, who was an important pawn in the Rotterdammers' promotion year last season. 'He was very positive and helpful. That helped me to get a good picture of what awaits me here.' GBeNeFN | Max Bradfield
BBC News
27-06-2025
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Nygren: Celtic's new Swedish forward with echoes of Larsson
Talk of signing another Swedish international forward will naturally have Celtic fans reminiscing about the legend that was - and is - Henrik for a pittance from Feyenoord in 1997, he would spend seven trophy-filled seasons with the Glasgow club before going on to perform admirably for Barcelona and Manchester United in his twilight Nygren will be dreaming of making a similar impact at Celtic Park after completing his transfer from Nordsjaelland for a fee reportedly less than £ 23-year-old has spent three and a half years in the Danish Superliga but said in a recent Swedish television interview that he believes it is time for him to move to a bigger club, in front of a packed stadium, and to play in the Champions tick those boxes, at least if they can negotiate a play-off, but what about his profile has attracted the Scottish champions? Nygren came through IFK Goteborg's youth ranks before making his competitive debut as a 16-year-old in came shortly after he agreed professional terms with his local club despite reported interest from Bayern Munich, Inter Milan and Manchester was still only 17 when he moved on to Genk in Belgium's top flight for a reported fee of £4.2m - a record sale by had only made 15 appearances by that time, but he had already displayed his scoring prowess with six goals - with four coming in 12 appearances during his second season with the first-team as they finished seventh in Sweden's top would only play seven times for Genk, scoring once, but his European travels had meantime taken him to the Netherlands on scored seven times in 32 appearances as Heerenveen finished 12th in the Eredevisie and reached a national cup second season on loan was not quite as fruitful, failing to find the net in 19 appearances, and he joined Nordsjaelland in January 2022 after having his loan spell terminated - and cutting short his contract with Genk by two Danish venture, alongside current Rangers midfielder Mohamed Diomande, started modestly has they helped his new club avoid Nygren's career was back on track as six goals in 31 games in his first full campaign in the Superliga took Nordsjaelland to the top of the table by the end of the regular season only to be overtaken by Copenhagen after the runners-up at least led to Conference League group stage football the following season and, although they would finish third behind Fenerbahce and Ludogorets Razgrad, it would thrust Nygren into the European Swede grabbed a double in a 7-1 thrashing of the Bulgarians and upstaged that with a hat-trick in a 6-1 drubbing of the Turks - results that no doubt helped draw Nygren to Celtic's Nordsjaelland, now minus Ibrox-bound Diomande, finishing fourth in the Superliga, Nygren would chalk up 12 goals from 31 appearances overall and, although his side were only fifth this past season, he would surpass that personally by finding the net 16 times in 32 leaves Denmark having scored 35 goals in 107 appearances overall for Nordsjaelland over three and a half seasons - the fourth-highest scorer in their history and not a bad return for someone viewed as primarily a right winger. Comparisons with Kuhn and Cerny With Scotland defender Kieran Tierney back at Celtic Park on a free transfer from Arsenal and Ross Doohan returning as back-up goalkeeper from Aberdeen, Nygren becomes Brendan Rodgers' first proper new face of the is no surprise that Celtic's first outgoing fee since the opening of the transfer window has been paid for a player with Nygren's Kyogo Furuhashi sold to Rennes near the end of the January window, fellow Japan forward Daizen Maeda had - at times - been pushed up front from his normal wide left Maeda proved to be a highly effective striker, outshining specialist Adam Idah, it left Celtic short of options on the wings, especially when Jota, who had returned in January from Rennes, was the Portuguese ruled out until the end of the year and right winger Nicolas Kuhn - and, indeed, Maeda - reportedly attracting attention from clubs around Europe, another wide man with a goal threat was badly needed. Not that Nygren should be seen as an out-and-out right winger. Nygren's style is not too disimilar to that of Vaclav Cerny, the Czech international who impressed on loan to Rangers from Wolfsburg last season, often drifting infield to fire for goal with his favoured left IFK sporting director Mats Gren was quoted in a recent interview as saying that he is best as a number first two goals against Fenerbahce, for example, came after picking the ball up centrally and dribbling into the penalty his third against the Turks and his first for Sweden - as he earned his second cap in a 5-1 thumping of Northern Ireland in March - were poacher tap-ins inside the six-yard box and he has since added a curled finish against wonder Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers has described Nygren as an "exciting" player who will be a crowd to Kuhn, the German has more dribbles and creates more chances for others, but while their statistics are broadly similar, the Swede is ahead in attempts on goal, goals per game and, given his greater height, aerial duels like Larsson, Nygren will arrive as a cut-price winger, external and leave a legendary goalscorer.
BBC News
19-06-2025
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Who is Celtic target Nygren?
In the last week Celtic have been heavily linked with Nordsjaelland forward Benjamin Nygren, and reports this morning suggest the deal is all but Swede would be Brendan Rodgers' second signing this summer after Kieran Tierney returned to the know what they're getting with the Scotland international, but Nygren is a little more who is Nygren, and what are Celtic - potentially - getting?Primarily a right winger, 23-year-old Nygren is a versatile forward who has 35 goals in 106 appearances for the Danish Superliga career kicked off in his homeland with IFK Goteborg where he made his debut as a fresh-faced 16-year-old, and after impressing, earned a big-money move to Belgian side Genk at struggled for game time, though, and spent two seasons on loan with Dutch outfit Heerenveen before rejuvenating his career with netted six goals in his first full league campaign - where Nordsjaelland finished second behind Copenhagen - 12 in his second and 16 in his third. Not bad numbers for a wide good form earned him a first international call-up, after appearing for Sweden's youth teams, and he scored his first goal for his country in a friendly against Northern Ireland in March and his second earlier this month against his tag as a winger, he exhibited great striker's instinct for his maiden Sweden goal - a tap-in within the six-yard box - before bending in a beauty against the can sometimes be a little misleading, but a look at Nygren's ought to have Celtic fans excited.
BBC News
13-06-2025
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'Askou appointment ambitious & fresh thinking' - Well Society's Watson
Well Society director Derek Watson thinks Jens Berthel Askou's "ambitious" appointment shows "fresh thinking" from "on the up" IFK Goteborg head coach Askou replaces Michael Wimmer at Fir Park having enjoyed promotion in Denmark and trophies in the Froe Islands."Many people in the media and football world - like during the previous vacancy - roll off similar names who have worked often worked in Scotland, but I think this shows fresh thinking," Watson told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland."It's out of the box, as it should be for Motherwell and for the UK's first top-flight fan-owned club."Askou has won promotion to the Danish top flight with both Vendsyssel and Horsens. In between those jobs he won a league and cup double in the Faroe Islands with HB Torshavn."It's an ambitious and exciting appointment," Watson added. "This is a manager who's had a taste of success and wants to go on to bigger and better things."The strategy that the executive board have had when they've been appointing managers reflects the significant reset that's been happening across the club across the last year."I think Motherwell have got a reputation of being a football club who develop young talent and move them, on so there is no reason it shouldn't be similar for managers. "We want young managers to come in, be ambitious and see Motherwell as a good platform to develop their career if they have success."With the new season fast approaching, Watson believes this move has put the Lanarkshire club "in a very good place"."Hopefully the manager brings in some fresh faces and some fresh ideas but I would like to hope that Motherwell are a club on the up. "I think we're in a very good place."
BBC News
12-06-2025
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Who is Askou & why have Motherwell chosen him?
Jens Berthel Askou won promotion to the Danish top flight with both Vendsyssel and Horsens. In between those jobs he won a league and cup double in the Faroe Islands with HB June 2023, he took over at IFK Goteborg for a year before joining Sparta Prague as an assistant January, he took up a similar post at FC Copenhagen working under manager Jacob Neestrup."We had a high number of impressive applicants, but we were really drawn to Jens," said Motherwell chairman Kyrk Macmillan."His track record of working with big clubs, delivering success and developing young players matches up with all our philosophies."He has handed 26 teenagers debuts in five-and-a-half seasons, which I think is evidence of Jens implementing his ideas and morals."The data and numbers impressed us, but more importantly, after speaking with Jens a number of times, he is a really ambitious character and a leader who was extremely keen to get the role here at our club."
