Saints And Celtic Said To Have Lost Out On Number One Goalkeeping Target

Reports are coming through that Southampton and Celtic have both been too slow in pursuing their top goalkeeping target in this transfer window and will now have to look elsewhere.

insidefutbol.com have revealed that Bayer Leverkusen keeper Patrick Pentz, said to be Southampton's top target right up until today has signed a 4 year contract with Brondby.

Pentz spent last season on loan at the Danish club and they wasted no time to agree a deal with him, although with the transfer window not officially opening until Friday, no actual pen could be put to paper until then.

But perhaps Saints are not too disappointed, Pentz who started his career in his native Austria, has not yet set the World alight, he made his name with Austria Wien and was their regular keeper up until 2022, he then moved to Reims in France in the summer of that year but played just 7 games before losing his place.

he then went to Bayer Leverkusen for the second half of the 2022/23 season, but did not play a game,he was only an unused sub and the German side loaned him out to Brondby in the summer of 2023.

That has now seemingly turned into a four year permanent deal with the transfer fee probably around £2.5 million, so it is questionable whether Saints would really be that keen on signing a keeper valued so low for what is going to be a tough Premier League season.

So perhaps this report suggests an agent trying to up the ante for his client ahead of the contract being completed on Friday.

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