{"id":653235,"date":"2026-05-06T11:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/653235\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T11:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:56:08","slug":"scottish-gossip-leonard-engels-stewart-olusanya-astley-nsio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/653235\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish gossip: Leonard, Engels, Stewart, Olusanya, Astley, Nsio,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Celtic have put Marc Leonard firmly on their summer radar and will continue to monitor the 24-year-old midfielder in his final three games of the season on loan to title rivals Heart of Midlothian from Birmingham City. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-transfer-news\/marc-leonard-celtic-transfer-radar-37111921\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Daily Record), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Celtic are keeping tabs on Falkirk striker Barney Stewart and have the 22-year-old on their radar as an option to bolster their attack this summer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/barney-stewart-in-the-frame-for-celtic-move-as-summer-swoop-plotted-to-sign-falkirk-star\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Football Insider), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">RB Leipzig are closely monitoring Arne Engels with a departure from Celtic planned this summer and with clubs from the Premier League, Serie A and La Liga also keen on the 22-year-old midfielder. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Plettigoal\/status\/2051728940176208006?s=20\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">(Florian Plettenberg on X), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raith Rovers plan talks with Rangers as they hope to retain 20-year-old midfielder Paul Nsio, who has been on loan to the Scottish Championship club. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/sport\/football\/rangers\/latest-rangers-news\/outstanding-rangers-loanee-lands-awards-night-quadruple-as-manager-reveals-plan-for-ibrox-talks-8490860\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(The Scotsman), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dundee defender Ryan Astley wants to remain at Dens Park, with the 24-year-old out of contract this summer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecourier.co.uk\/fp\/sport\/football\/dundee-fc\/5485152\/exclusive-ryan-astley-stance-clear-new-dundee-contract\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(The Courier), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtic have put Marc Leonard firmly on their summer radar and will continue to monitor the 24-year-old midfielder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-653235","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\/653235","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=653235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}