Celtic transfer news: £6m striker signing had “no doubts” about joining Martin O’Neill’s side

Scottish Premiership champions Celtic person announced the signing of striker Camilo Duran from Qarabag FK.

The 24-year-old Colombian has penned a five-year declaration and arrives from the Azerbaijan Premier League runners-up for an undisclosed fee, believed to beryllium worthy £6m.

Celtic's caller No.11 had emerged arsenic a superior people for the Glaswegian giants pursuing a stellar play with Qarabag, wherever helium impressed some domestically and successful the Champions League.

He scored 15 goals and provided 10 assists successful 45 games for Qarabag crossed each competitions successful the 2025-26 campaign, including 5 goals scored successful 10 Champions League outings.

Comfortable operating crossed the frontline arsenic a centre-forward oregon retired wide, Duran has go Celtic’s archetypal signing of the summertime transportation model and their archetypal since the imperishable assignment of manager Martin O'Neill.

“I'm precise happy, it's a imagination travel existent to motion for a large nine similar Celtic, the biggest successful Scotland, and I'm conscionable excited to get going and people tons of goals,” Duran told CelticPlayer.

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Duran targeting Champions League occurrence astatine Celtic

“When I archetypal heard of the involvement determination was perfectly nary uncertainty successful my caput and I'm conscionable excited to get playing with the boys.

“It was a imagination travel existent playing successful the Champions League,” helium said. “That's what you imagination of arsenic a kid, truthful to people goals was astonishing and that's what I privation to proceed doing here, scoring goals successful the Champions League.

“I springiness it my each successful each game, with a batch of effort and dedication, and hopefully the goals volition come.

“It's an honour to beryllium the archetypal Colombian to play for Celtic. It's been a imagination of excavation since I was a kid (to play for my country) and I anticipation that being present astatine Celtic and moving well, past 1 time that volition go true.

“I’ve told the manager however blessed I americium to beryllium present and that I volition hopefully repay him with my performances. It's a existent honour to deterioration this jersey and I anticipation that this twelvemonth we'll beryllium champions.”

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Celtic person already begun their pre-season campaign, drafting 1-1 with Shelbourne connected Tuesday, and Duran could beryllium acceptable to marque his debut for the nine successful a affable against Sporting Lisbon adjacent Tuesday.

Duran could marque his competitory debut for the Hoops erstwhile they statesman the defence of their Scottish top-flight rubric astatine location to Dundee connected August 3, earlier entering the Champions League playoff rounds.