The Adam Idah warning that Celtic MISSED before agreeing gargantuan fee as £10m price set for second mega transfer

Celtic are set to bring back Adam Idah for a whopping £9.5million - and Norwich appear to have dropped a clue over the massive price tag DURING crunch talks this weekend.

Record Sport understands that the Scottish Premiership champions will pay out around £8.5million up front to bring the Ireland international back to Glasgow's east end after a successful six-month loan spell last season. There will also be a £1million payday for the English Championship side in add-ons alongside a 15 per cent sell-on clause as he looks set to pen a five-year-deal.

Brendan Rodgers' has made no secret of his intentions to bring the striker back to Celtic Park this summer - with talks over a move escalating last weekend with Kyogo Furuhashi suffering an injury scare. But the final package that has been rubber stamped has raised eyebrows among some fans and pundits with the 23-year-old’s fee among the highest fees ever paid out by Celtic - sitting just below the £9million splashed out on Odsonne Edouard in 2018.

But while talks ramped up last weekend, Norwich made no secret of their intentions to demand big money for their stars. In the wake of defeat to Oxford on the opening day of the season, boss Johannes Hoff Thorup was bullish over the club's stance on selling their stars.

In a clue hiding in plain sight for Celtic, he warned in the Pink Un: "I know fans love this time of season where there are so many rumours and so many media stories, but I prefer the start of September. We're not a club where we just give our players away for free, so other teams can see that they have to pay, but end of the day we have to listen when an offer comes like that. "

The spending spree may not stop there for the Hoops, with Liverpool setting out