{"id":390749,"date":"2026-01-04T09:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/390749\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T09:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:08:08","slug":"scottish-gossip-simpson-pusey-nancy-stormzy-penrice-maloney-oneill-chesnokov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/390749\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish gossip: Simpson-Pusey, Nancy, Stormzy, Penrice, Maloney, O&#8217;Neill, Chesnokov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manchester City centre-half Jahmai Simpson-Pusey was flying to Germany on Sunday to join Cologne on loan after the 20-year-old only managed 64 minutes of action during the first half of the season while farmed out to Celtic. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/15757514\/man-city-jahmai-simpson-pusey-celtic-fc-koln\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Scottish Sun), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangers made an offer to AEK Athens for the services of 27-year-old former Heart of Midlothian left-back James Penrice that was rejected by the Greek club. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/choria80\/status\/2007234419690783023\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">(Giannis Chorianopoulos on X), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New Hearts signing Islam Chesnokov missed watching Saturday&#8217;s 1-0 victory over Livingston because his flight was delayed from Amsterdam, but head coach Derek McInnes says the 26-year-old winger is now in Scotland and will go through his visa application process on Monday as he completes his move from Tobol. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com\/sport\/football\/hearts\/hearts-explain-islam-chesnokovs-situation-uk-visa-meeting-and-some-praise-for-new-signing-jordi-altena-5461778\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Edinburgh Evening News), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hearts have confirmed the launch of their new talent strategy, &#8220;The Hearts Way&#8221;, which will run in conjunction with the Jamestown Analytics scouting system and aims to support the club&#8217;s young players through the boys and girls&#8217; academy, professional development phase and senior squads. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com\/sport\/football\/hearts\/hearts-new-talent-strategy-jamestown-key-role-four-objectives-5461550\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Edinburgh Evening News), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shaun Maloney, who assisted interim boss Martin O&#8217;Neill, is the bookmakers&#8217; favourite ahead of the Northern Irishman to be Celtic manager, with Wilfried Nancy being tipped for the sack after Saturday&#8217;s 3-1 defeat by Rangers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/sport\/football\/celtic\/latest-celtic-news\/next-celtic-manager-odds-ex-sunderland-man-utd-men-and-several-parkhead-heroes-amongst-favourites-to-replace-nancy-5448464?page=5\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(The Scotsman), external<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City centre-half Jahmai Simpson-Pusey was flying to Germany on Sunday to join Cologne on loan after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-390749","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390749","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=390749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}