{"id":897704,"date":"2026-09-19T12:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T12:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/897704\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T12:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T12:02:11","slug":"scottish-gossip-fae-oneill-gullit-goodwin-barron-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/897704\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Gossip: Fae, O&#8217;Neill, Gullit, Goodwin, Barron, Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Ivory Coast head coach Emerse Fae is reportedly interested in the Hibernian job as speculation abounds over Martin O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s future with Celtic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Reading midfielder Emerse Fae, the 42-year-old who led Ivory Coast to knockout stage for the first time at this summer&#8217;s World Cup and has family links to Scotland, is interested in becoming Hibernian head coach. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/16835625\/world-cup-manager-emerse-fae-hibs-job\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scottish Sun, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Comfortable defeats by Rangers and Ferencvaros have left a growing sense of unease behind the scenes at Celtic over the future of manager Martin O&#8217;Neill. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/news\/martin-o-neill-sack-news-celtic-rangers-decision-looms\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TeamTalk, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martin O&#8217;Neill is not facing the sack at Celtic, but the 74-year-old knows that he must keep them above Rangers to stay in the job for the whole season (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/celtic\/celtic-sources-martin-oneill-sack-update-as-rangers-trigger-revolt\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Football Insider, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martin O&#8217;Neill says &#8220;Celtic will be looking, soon enough, for someone to replace me&#8221; but insists he retains the hunger to succeed this season. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/sport\/26564397.oneill-responds-bbc-mans-claim-looked-tired-presser\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Glasgow Times, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ruud Gullit says not even an approach from Celtic could persuade Frank Rijkaard to come out of managerial retirement, but the 64-year-old former Chelsea manager has opened the door to his own first coaching role since 2011. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/sport\/26564307.ballon-dor-winner-issues-celtic-managerial-response\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Herald, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Ivory Coast head coach Emerse Fae is reportedly interested in the Hibernian job as speculation abounds over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-897704","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\/897704","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=897704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}