{"id":12383,"date":"2025-03-26T17:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/victor-wanyama-set-for-reunion-with-former-celtic-boss-neil-lennon-at-dunfermline\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T17:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:55:12","slug":"victor-wanyama-set-for-reunion-with-former-celtic-boss-neil-lennon-at-dunfermline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/victor-wanyama-set-for-reunion-with-former-celtic-boss-neil-lennon-at-dunfermline\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wanyama set for reunion with former Celtic boss Neil Lennon at Dunfermline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former Celtic and Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Victor Wanyama is set for a reunion with his former manager Neil Lennon, as he closes in on a return to the Scottish game with Championship side Dunfermline Athletic.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Pars have confirmed they are in advanced talks to sign the 33-year-old Kenya international, who is currently undergoing a medical.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wanyama had two years at Parkhead between 2011 and 2013 before a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/22969633\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">\u00a312.5m move to Southampton<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He then moved to Spurs in 2016 before joining Canadian MLS side CF Montreal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lennon took over at East End Park this week and faces Scott Brown&#8217;s Ayr United on Saturday, a match for which Wanyama could be available if the deal goes through and he&#8217;s fit to play.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cp8l6k88xg3o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Celtic and Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Victor Wanyama is set for a reunion with his former manager Neil Lennon, as he closes in on a return to the Scottish game with Championship side Dunfermline Athletic. The Pars have confirmed they are in advanced talks to sign the 33-year-old Kenya international, who is currently undergoing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12385,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12383\/revisions\/12385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}