Since the club from little ol Bodø made it to the Europa league semifinal last season, they’ve finally gained some well deserved recognition! As such, some of you reading this may already know who Kasper Høgh is. The 24 year old Danish striker who joined Glimt ahead of the 2024 Eliteserien season from Stabaek has had a meteoric rise since joining the Norwegian champions. After 5 goals in 14 matches for Stabaek in 2023, not many would’ve predicted him to score a goal per 90 minutes in his debut season at Bodø/Glimt, except for the Glimt scouts of course. This is already a trend, where Glimt sign a (at the time) relatively unknown striker without much proven success at their level, and develop them into regular Top 5 league players – Victor Boniface being the prime example. However, many might propose that Høgh’s strong performance was just a factor of him playing for a much stronger team. While it certainly helps to be surrounded by higher quality players, Høgh himself also developed his all-around game as the season went on and became a more complete striker.

As he started the 2025 season, Høgh once again looked to be a much improved player. This year, he started adding more playmaking to his game, averaging 0.32 assists per 90, up from 0.08 p90 in his debut Glimt season. Here is a good example of his evolved positioning and playmaking from today’s match vs. Sandefjord.

First, Høgh sees his team win the ball back in their own defensive third, and makes a quick run out to the wide channel to offer an outlet. He pulls the RCB out of position, but holds the ball up successfully and turns to bait a second Sandefjord defender in.

Then, spotting the underlapping run of his fullback, Høgh plays a perfectly weighted through ball between the two defenders marking him, leading to a clear cut chance on goal.

While very competent in the air, it would be a mistake to profile him as a target forward. Høgh has needed to become strong in holdup play, as he is often a lone outlet if Glimt are under extended pressure. He likes to drop in deeper at times and look to play through one of his teammates before arriving late in the box. When he does get the ball at his feet in the box, he produces a quality shot on target much more often than not. Høgh has consistently outperformed his xG numbers for all 3 seasons in the Eliteserien, as well as in last season’s Europa League. If a player overperforms xG in one season, there is right to have caution they may not replicate the same success. However, some players (though they are rare) can consistently outperform their xG, and that is what we are seeing so far with Kasper Høgh.

Strong out of possession, Høgh leads the Glimt press, with his main role being to force the ball up one side of the pitch. On average, he gets dribbled past (breaking the first line of the Glimt press) once every 5 matches, and wins the ball back in the final third more often than he is dribbled past. If moving to a club with a manager who can coach players in pressing, Høgh could no doubt become a very serviceable pressing forward at the Premier League level in such a system. He has only committed ~1 foul per match at Bodø/Glimt, and has only received a single yellow card on his disciplinary record.

The reason I believe that he will be available to purchase is because he recently signed a new contract extension at Glimt. This is a very common occurrence at Glimt right before a player is sold for a decent transfer fee. Høgh also just cannot stop scoring. Still scoring at a goal per 90 minutes in the league with Glimt, and at 0.6 p90 in the Europa League last season, Høgh will get a shot to prove himself in the Champions League this year. With the January window coming at the end of the Norwegian domestic season, it is often a convenient time for players to move, and I have little doubt that Høgh would succeed playing in a higher league. For reference, Høgh is scoring at a higher rate than Victor Boniface did in his final season at Glimt. I’m not sure if there’s some unofficial goals p90 threshold for Glimt strikers that other clubs have alerts for, but I’m certain that plenty of clubs around Europe’s top leagues are taking a look at Kasper Høgh right now.

A striker who has that bit of ego you want him to have when the ball finds his feet in a good scoring position, but all-around a very strong team player. By no means is Høgh a selfish player, and takes great delight in seeing his teammates score instead of him. His linkup and holdup play is strong, he is willing to battle with a bigger CB, and is a natural finisher in the box.

Just one example of a club that could 1. afford and 2. have a real use for Høgh would be Crystal Palace. I believe they’re looking for another striker to rotate alongside JP Mateta, and Kasper Høgh can play quite a similar style game to Mateta. Palace are in the Conference League this year, and Høgh already has experience scoring goals in the Europa League: with three against Olympiacos, a goal and assist against FC Porto, and a brace against Maccabi Tel-Aviv on his record.

If Høgh is still at Bodø/Glimt after the 2026 summer window, I will be shocked. It is not a question of if he will be purchased from Glimt (for a possible club record sale fee), but when. If Glimt qualify for the UCL knockouts there is a chance he could be persuaded to stay until the summer window, but I doubt his time at Glimt will last any longer than that. In today’s transfer market, there are many worse strikers than Kasper Høgh who a club could pay a lot more money for. Whoever signs him will be getting guaranteed value for money at the very least.

Kasper Høgh, ready for the next level.