SPL king → A pet dog FW and Baek Seung-ho are in the same team! BBC confirms three-year deal

Jul 06, 2025

SPL king → A pet dog FW and Baek Seung-ho are in the same team! BBC confirms three-year deal
◇photo source=Kyogo Furuhashi on Instagram



Japanese national team striker Kyogo Furuhashi will share the same team with Baek Seung-ho from the new season.

The BBC reported on the 6th (Korea time) 'Birmingham City, which starts from the new season championship (second division), recruited Furuhashi from French Ligue 1 Rennes' he said. The contract period is three years, and the transfer fee is a non-disclosure condition. Earlier, French sports magazine Lekif predicted that Birmingham would pay 10 million pounds (about 18.6 billion won) to Rennes for a transfer fee.

Six months ago, Furuhashi was the best striker in the Scottish Premier League. He scored 20 goals in his first season at Celtic from Vissel Kobe. In the 2022-2023 season, his second year, he won the SPL top scorer and player of the year award with a total of 34 goals. Although he slowed down to 19 goals in the 2023-2024 season, he continued his smooth performance by scoring 12 goals in the first half of the 2024-2025 season alone. However, he was shunned by the Japanese national team all the time. Controversy arose as it was excluded from the final entry of last year's Qatar Asian Cup as well as the 2022 Qatar World Cup. Japanese national team coach Hajime Moriyasu was criticized for focusing on the value of the league's name rather than player performance.




SPL king → A pet dog FW and Baek Seung-ho are in the same team! BBC confirms three-year deal
◇photo source=Kyogo Furuhashi on Instagram
Ren signed Furuhashi for £10m for Celtic in January. Jorge Sampaoli, who led Siren, said, `I have high expectations for Furuhashi. He expressed high expectations, saying, "The player who can give us depth and a lot of help." Japanese media also predicted that Furuhashi will go to France and help compete for the starting position of the national team.

But the result is a disastrous failure. Sampaoli was dismissed shortly after due to poor performance, and Furuhashi has been shunned ever since. He played in 16 league games, but his playing time was only 120 minutes, which was virtually classified as out of power.

Birmingham advanced to the Championship last season by winning League One (third division). In addition to Baek Seung-ho, Tomoki Iwata is active as the main player. The BBC reported that in addition to Furuhashi, Birmingham signed Nigerian full-back Bright Osei-Samuel and Jamaican winger Demarai Gray on loan, midfielder Tommy Doyle and goalkeeper James Biddle' explained the recent power reinforcement flow.








This article was translated by Naver AI translator.