KYOGO FURUHASHI is threatening to run away with the Premiership’s high scorer award.
However Ally McCoist is not positive if his success in Scotland would routinely translate to the Premier League.
The Celtic striker hit 20 league objectives for the season within the 3-1 victory over Hearts and naturally for any participant in Scottish soccer who does nicely, they get linked with a transfer to England.
Kyogo price the Parkhead membership £4.5million in 2021 and on present kind, if he was to make the change to a Prem facet, Celtic would make a wholesome revenue on that quantity.
Whereas Hoops hero Chris Sutton is satisfied the Japanese striker might go onto even larger and higher issues ought to he go away Glasgow, Rangers legend McCoist has his doubts.
Kyogo now has 25 objectives in all competitions this season and wishes simply 5 extra to succeed in half a century with Celtic.
Sutton and McCoist have been discussing the 28-year-old’s kind on BT Sport’s Scottish Soccer Additional, with Sutton stating: “25 objectives and to assume a few weeks in the past on this present, Ally was questioning whether or not he might play within the Premier League!
“He’s put Rangers to the sword within the cup ultimate and he is as much as 25 objectives. Do you charge him now Ally? Is he rising on you?”
To which McCoist replied: “I’ve at all times rated him. If you happen to look again at any of my feedback, I’ve rated him very extremely.”
However Sutton endured: “You questioned whether or not he might play down south, didn’t you?”
“Yeah, I did and I most likely nonetheless do,” admitted McCoist.
Sutton then requested: “What does he need to do? Rating 40? Put Rangers to the sword in one other ultimate?”
McCoist then pointed to the truth that the final striker to excel within the Hoops was Odsonne Edouard, and he hasn’t precisely lit it up within the Premier League since his transfer to Crystal Palace.
He defined: “Whenever you consider somebody like Edouard, who once more, was wonderful with Celtic, and has gone down south and executed okay. He’s executed okay, so I would nonetheless have a query mark over Kyogo.
“I’m not saying for a minute that I don’t like him. Completely, you can’t argue along with his objectives, he performs on the shoulder, wonderful. I’ve at all times been a fan of Kyogo and I actually like his type, as I’m with [Daizen] Maeda and [Reo] Hatate.”