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title: "Celtic: Alan Hutton feels that Odsonne Edouard is worth £25m or more"
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author: "Liam Togher"
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published: "2019-10-11T17:20:10Z"
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# Celtic: Alan Hutton feels that Odsonne Edouard is worth £25m or more

**Former Scotland defender Alan Hutton has echoed his international colleague Kris Boyd’s claim that Celtic forward Odsonne Edouard is worth at least £25m in the current market.**

Boyd told [Sky Sports](https://www.skysports.com/) \[[via Evening Times](https://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/17959608.manchester-united-splash-30m-celtic-star-edouard-claims-kris-boyd/)\] that the 21-year-old French forward would be worthy of a move to the English Premier League for between £25m and £30m and advised Manchester United to try and sign the player.

Speaking to [Football Insider](https://www.footballinsider247.com/exclusive-alan-hutton-reacts-to-edouard-celtic-transfer-claims/), Hutton agreed that Edouard would be worthy of such a fee in the modern transfer market, alluding to the Celtic man’s superb scoring form at club and international level.

Hutton told [Football Insider](https://www.footballinsider247.com/exclusive-alan-hutton-reacts-to-edouard-celtic-transfer-claims/): “In today’s day and age some of the transfer fees are outrageous. At the end of the day, this is a boy who is scoring lots of goals, doing well, he’s an under-21 international – he’s got everything going for him at the moment.

“You can’t really deny the price tag, in today’s market I don’t think anyone would argue with the £25m.”

When you look at Edouard’s scoring return not just this season but over the last year, it’s quite understandable why Hutton has spoken of him so highly.

The 21-year-old has [nine goals](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/odsonne-edouard/leistungsdaten/spieler/344152) to his name in [17 appearances](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/odsonne-edouard/leistungsdaten/spieler/344152) this term (0.53 goals per game) and, at that rate, he is on course to succeed his 2018/19 tally of [22 goals in 52 games](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/odsonne-edouard/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/344152) (0.42 goals per game).

Impressive as his scoring return for Celtic has been, it is overshadowed by his form for the French under-21 side. He only [made his debut last month](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/odsonne-edouard/nationalmannschaft/spieler/344152/verein_id/9323) but [scored twice on both of his first two appearances](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/odsonne-edouard/nationalmannschaft/spieler/344152/verein_id/9323) at that level and [added two more in last night’s 5-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan](https://www.uefa.com/under21/season=2021/matches/round=2001101/match=2026509/) in European qualifying.

Edouard’s overall record for Celtic currently stands at [42 goals in 98 appearances](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/odsonne-edouard/leistungsdatenverein/spieler/344152) (0.43 goals per game). Fellow countryman Moussa Dembele was sold by the club for £19.7m in August 2018, as per [BBC](https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/45377409), after scoring [51 goals in 94 appearances](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/moussa-dembele/leistungsdatenverein/spieler/229004) (0.54 per game).

While the Lyon striker had a greater goal return at Celtic than Edouard can currently boast, and left for a smaller fee than that quoted by Boyd and Hutton, the spending on some strikers in the English Premier League would make £25m seem a quite modest price tag for Edouard by comparison.

Bournemouth spent £19m on Dominic Solanke earlier this year (as per [BBC](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46763610)) after a return of [one goal in 27 Liverpool appearances](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/dominic-solanke/leistungsdatenverein/spieler/258889) (0.04 per game), while Brighton parted with around £20m in the summer (as per [BBC](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48975141)) for Neal Maupay, who despite an [impressive return with Brentford](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/neal-maupay/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/217115) in the English Championship had scored just [seven times in 59 top-flight appearances](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/neal-maupay/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/217115) (0.12 goals per game) in France.

When those fees are taken into account, Hutton is right in saying that £25m is a very reasonable valuation of Edouard, a player who has proven he can score goals at top-flight level and who is in fantastic form for club and country.

***Celtic fans, do you think Edouard is worth more than £25m? What is the minimum fee that you would accept for him? Join in the discussion by commenting below!***