Celtic suna kusa da rattaba hannu kan Camilo Duran, dan wasan gaba dan Kolombiya wanda ya yi kyau a gasar UEFA Champions League tare da Qarabag a wannan kakar, yayin da manaja Martin O'Neill yake shirye ya kammala canjin sa na farko tun da ya dawo kulob din a matsayin dindindin.
Rahotanni sun nuna cewa Celtic suna shirye su biya kusan £5.5 miliyan domin Duran, adadi da ke nuna haɓakar wannan ɗan wasan ɗan shekara 24 a ƙwallon ƙafa na Turai. An sa ran zai tafi sansanin horon Celtic a Portugal kafin a kammala binciken lafiya.
Tabbaci a Champions League
Duran ya kammala kamfen na Qarabag a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin mafi kyawun 'yan wasa a zagayen playoff na Champions League, inda ya zura kwallo ta faraja akan Newcastle United yayin da ƙungiyar Azerbaijan ta fita da jimillar 8-2. Wannan kwallo ta kasance ta biyar a gasar.
Ya riga ya zura kwallaye akan Benfica, sau biyu akan Eintracht Frankfurt, da sau ɗaya a cikin kashi ga Ajax — ya kammala kamfen da kwallaye iri ɗaya a Champions League kamar Vinicius Junior, Michael Olise, da Desire Doue wanda ya kai matakin ƙarshe. Wannan wani sakamako mai ban mamaki ne ga ɗan wasan da ya zo Qarabag daga ƙwararrun Portugal na biyu bara da ƙaramin ɓangare na farashin da ake ba da rahoton yanzu.
Dan wasan gaba mai ƙarfi da sauƙin canzawa
An haife shi a Santa Marta, Duran ya girma cikin yanayi mai wahala kafin ƙwallon ƙafa ta canza hanyar rayuwarsa. Ya bar Kolombiya don babban kulob din Brazil Flamengo a matsayin aro, inda ya yi kyau kafin rauni ya dakatar da wata kwangilar dindindin da ta yiwu. Daga baya ya nufi Turai a cikin 2022, yana goga ƙwarewarsa a Portugal kafin ya hau mataki zuwa Qarabag.
Da farko yana zana layi a tsakiyar filin a Independiente Medellin, an canza shi zuwa dan wasan gaba a ƙarƙashin kocin Sebastian Botero — sauyin da ya kawo nasara. A cewar Transfermarkt, ya bayyana a wasanni 38 a matsayin dan wasan gaba na tsakiya, 25 a matsayin dan wasan reshe na dama duk da cewa yana amfani da ƙafar hagu, da tara a ɓangaren hagu.
Lokacin da aka yi amfani da shi a matsayin dan wasan gaba, ya ba da gudummawar kwallaye 14 da taimako 10. A kakarsa ta ɗaya tare da Qarabag, ya yi wasanni 45 kuma ya tara gudummawar kwallo 25 — kwallaye 15 da taimako 10 — duk da haka kulob din ya ƙare a matsayi na biyu a gasar Azerbaijan Premier League, tare da tazarar maki tara daga Sabah, ba su samu kiyaye taken ba.
'Matsin lamba yana ƙarfafa shi'
Waɗanda suka san Duran sosai sun kwatanta ɗan wasan da ke bunƙasa lokacin da duk abubuwa suke tsayawa a gabansa.
"Camilo koyaushe ya kasance ɗan tawaye kaɗan," in ji Botero. "Shi ya sa matsin lamba bai dame shi ba — yana ƙarfafa shi. Idan hankali ya ce komai yana kansa, sai ya yi komai yana ƙarfinsa don ya juya yanayin zuwa nufin sa."
Botero ya kwatanta ɗan wasan da ƙwallon ƙafa ta canza daga samartaka mai rikici zuwa ƙwararren mai ƙarfi. O'Neill ya riga ya nuna wasan riƙe ƙwallo na Duran a matsayin ƙarfin sa na musamman — ƙwarewa da Celtic zata buƙata idan dan wasan gaba zai jagoranci yanayin a cikin gida kamar yadda ya yi a Azerbaijan.
Ƙarfinsa na jiki ya bayyana a St James' Park a watan Fabrairu, lokacin da ya riski Dan Burn kafin ya ƙare da sanyin nutsuwa ya wuce Aaron Ramsdale. Irin wannan aikin da ya yi akan abokan hamayya na babbar gasar zai jawo hankalin Celtic.
O'Neill, yana magana a Drumcondra bayan Celtic suka yi tashin hankalin 1-1 da Shelbourne a wasa na abota, ya yarda cewa ƙarfafawa suna zuwa. "Muna da ƴan wasa da yawa da muke kallo," in ji shi. "Kuma ina fata a nan gaba ba mai nisa ba — na nuna watakila cikin makonni biyu ko uku — za mu sami ƴan wasa masu inganci sosai a kulob din don ƙara wa ƴan wasanmu na yanzu."
