{"id":496695,"date":"2026-02-22T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/496695\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T11:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:44:08","slug":"celtic-keep-eye-on-striker-gonzalez-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/496695\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic keep eye on striker Gonzalez &#8211; gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Celtic have sent scouts to watch Chivas striker Armando Gonzalez, with the 22-year-old Mexican rejecting a transfer to CSKA Moscow last year and having also been linked with Barcelona and West Ham United. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/sport\/25875088.celtic-interested-summer-transfer-mexican-striker\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(The National), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Celtic face strong competition from clubs in Brazil and elsewhere in Europe to sign Marcelo Saracchi, the 27-year-old left-back on loan from Boca Juniors, permanently this summer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celticway.co.uk\/news\/25875557.celtic-face-transfer-competition-permanent-saracchi-deal\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(The Celtic Way), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Celtic and Rangers will face competition from English and Italian clubs in the race to sign 21-year-old midfielder David Watson when his contract expires with Kilmarnock this summer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/rangers-and-celtic-well-placed-to-sign-top-young-player-whos-ready-to-explode\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Football Insider), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Danilo, the 26-year-old Rangers striker on loan to Nijmegen, is hoping to persuade the Dutch club to sign him permanently this summer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/sport\/25875545.danilo-reveals-rangers-transfer-stance-nec-loan-deal\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Glasgow Times), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nigeria head coach Eric Chelle has confirmed Rangers centre-half Emmanuel Fernandez is on his radar for his next squad. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/sport\/25875116.nigeria-boss-issues-key-update-amid-emmanuel-fernandez-speculation\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(The National), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New Hibernian forward Ante Suto, who qualifies for Croatia and Australia, says there has been &#8220;early contact&#8221; from the latter nation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/ante-suto-hibs-goals-vow-36758197\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Daily Record), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hamilton Academical have been taken to court by Addleshaw Goddard, the legal firm who helped save them from liquidation in August, over unpaid fees of \u00a337,000. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/local-sport\/hamilton-accies-taken-court-law-36759686\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Lanarkshire Live), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtic have sent scouts to watch Chivas striker Armando Gonzalez, with the 22-year-old Mexican rejecting a transfer to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-496695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496695","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=496695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}