{"id":280827,"date":"2025-11-13T02:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/280827\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T02:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:25:10","slug":"scottish-football-expert-explains-why-he-thinks-celtic-havent-gone-in-for-kieran-mckenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/280827\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish football expert explains why he thinks Celtic haven&#8217;t gone in for Kieran McKenna"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Scottish football expert has a theory as to why Celtic have not opted to make a move for Kieran McKenna.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/news\/kieran-mckenna-breaks-celtic-silence-with-firm-message-after-scottish-representatives-joke\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celtic reportedly held interest in McKenna<\/a>, who remained coy when addressed about his Ipswich Town future.<\/p>\n<p>Talks about the Northern Irishman potentially heading to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/club\/stadium\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Parkhead<\/a> have quietened down in recent weeks, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/tag\/wilfried-nancy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wilfried Nancy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/tag\/kjetil-knutsen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kjetil Knutsen<\/a> the two overwhelming favourites.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, Gordon Waddell believes one thing is holding the Hoops back from going for the highly-rated Championship boss.<\/p>\n<p>       Poll: Who would you like to become the new Celtic manager?     Kieran McKenna compensation clause may have denied Celtic move<\/p>\n<p>In order to lure<a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/tag\/kieran-mckenna\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> McKenna<\/a> away from Ipswich, Celtic would have had to have paid a healthy compensation fee to Ipswich.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/news\/brendan-rodgers-celtic-compensation-fee-explained\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">payout to Brendan Rodgers<\/a> on top of that would soon make the numbers add up, and Waddell thinks it may have been enough to put Celtic off.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p0mg598r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">BBC\u2019s Scottish Football podcast<\/a>, he said: \u201cThere\u2019s this notion from both sets of supporters that \u2018we deserve the best\u2019 and you\u2019re only going to get the best if you pay for the best.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you\u2019re not going to get a Jurgen Klopp to come in or McKenna down at Ipswich, it\u2019s going cost them \u00a35m to pay his release clause and also then an extraordinary set of wages and bring his staff. They\u2019re not going to do that, they won\u2019t pay that money.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2230994987-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Kieran McKenna applauds the fans during Preston North End v Ipswich Town in the Sky Bet Championship\" class=\"wp-image-331420\" \/>Photo by Richard Martin-Roberts \u2013 CameraSport via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo they have to think outside the box, but there\u2019s where you find the risk for any number of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of questions and I\u2019m not sure what Celtic\u2019s answer is because there\u2019s not an obvious choice for them this time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Scottish football expert has a theory as to why Celtic have not opted to make a move&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,18414,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-280827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-kieran-mckenna","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}