{"id":32357,"date":"2026-07-17T22:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T22:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/kelechi-iheanacho-striker-rejects-new-celtic-deal-for-turkeys-bursaspor\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T22:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T22:18:08","slug":"kelechi-iheanacho-striker-rejects-new-celtic-deal-for-turkeys-bursaspor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/kelechi-iheanacho-striker-rejects-new-celtic-deal-for-turkeys-bursaspor\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelechi Iheanacho: Striker rejects new Celtic deal for Turkey&#8217;s Bursaspor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Celtic have made just one signing this summer so far &#8211; Colombian striker Camilo Duran from Qarabag for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They remain short of centre-forward options before the new season amid uncertainty over the future of Japan international Daizen Maeda, who is entering the final year of his contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Manchester City and Leicester City forward Iheanacho hit nine goals for Celtic last season, having joined as a free agent after the summer transfer window closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He missed a chunk of the season with a hamstring injury and only started two games after October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Iheanacho &#8211; who joined from Sevilla in 2025 &#8211; scored six goals coming off the bench as Celtic won their final nine games to clinch a Scottish league and cup Double.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cz054lpgym7o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celtic have made just one signing this summer so far &#8211; Colombian striker Camilo Duran from Qarabag for an undisclosed fee. They remain short of centre-forward options before the new season amid uncertainty over the future of Japan international Daizen Maeda, who is entering the final year of his contract. Former Manchester City and Leicester [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32357","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\/32357","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=32357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32359,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32357\/revisions\/32359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}