{"id":19634,"date":"2025-09-11T07:20:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T07:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/scottish-gossip-maeda-and-celtic-raskin-future-rangers-signings\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T07:20:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T07:20:01","slug":"scottish-gossip-maeda-and-celtic-raskin-future-rangers-signings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/scottish-gossip-maeda-and-celtic-raskin-future-rangers-signings\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish gossip: Maeda and Celtic, Raskin future, Rangers signings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brendan Rodgers will hold urgent talks with Daizen Maeda to get a sense of the attitude of <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Celtic<\/b>&#8216;s main striker after he publicly stated his desire to leave the champions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/15327296\/celtic-brendan-rodgers-urgent-talks-daizen-maeda-transfer-bombshell\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">(Scottish Sun)<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nicolas Raskin will return to <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Rangers<\/b> first-team training after talks with manager Russell Martin &#8211; but knows he has to earn his spot back in the side. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/15327351\/nico-raskin-return-rangers-training-showdown-talks-russell-martin\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">(Scottish Sun)<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A leaked document reveals one of the metrics potential Leeds signings are based on  is the ability to score headers from set-pieces, which could explain <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Rangers&#8217;<\/b> emphasis on players over 6ft in the summer window, given the clubs have the same ownership group. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/15326924\/rangers-owners-recruitment-strategy-summer-signings-identified\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">(Scottish Sun)<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sebastian Tounekti&#8217;s upbringing on the freezing pitches of Tromso have given the Tunisia winger a toughness that will prepare him for life at <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Celtic<\/b>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/15327173\/rise-celtic-sebastian-tounekti-tromso-arctic-glasgow\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">(Scottish Sun)<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Data and conversations&#8221; led <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">St<\/b> <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Johnstone<\/b> to sign winger Jannik Wanner from St Johnstone, says manager Simo Valakari. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecourier.co.uk\/fp\/sport\/football\/st-johnstone\/5328821\/st-johnstone-signing-jannik-wanner-livingston-data\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">(The Courier)<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ex-<b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Hibernian<\/b> forward Tam McManus was surprised Kieron Bowie did not see action for Scotland in the World Cup qualifiers &#8211; but is relieved because he was fearing an injury to the striker that would wreck Hibs&#8217; season. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/kieron-bowie-scotland-hibs-mcmanus-35883116\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">(Daily Record)<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Craig Halkett insists <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Heart<\/b> <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">of<\/b> <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Midlothian<\/b> will block out the talk of a Scottish Premiership title challenge and he is only focussed on ending their poor recent record against Rangers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/craig-halkett-insists-hearts-block-35884358\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">(Daily Record)<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Hibernian<\/b> manager Nick Montgomery has again teamed up with Ange Postecoglou by taking up a coaching role at the Australian&#8217;s new club Nottingham Forest. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/sport\/25457209.ex-hibs-manager-lands-crucial-role-premier-league-side\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">(The Herald)<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c20z53p3wrpo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan Rodgers will hold urgent talks with Daizen Maeda to get a sense of the attitude of Celtic&#8216;s main striker after he publicly stated his desire to leave the champions. (Scottish Sun), external Nicolas Raskin will return to Rangers first-team training after talks with manager Russell Martin &#8211; but knows he has to earn his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19634","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=19634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19636,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19634\/revisions\/19636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}