{"id":642359,"date":"2026-05-02T05:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/642359\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T05:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:14:11","slug":"nottingham-forest-aston-villa-crystal-palace-pursue-rangers-bailey-rice-scottish-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/642359\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa &#038; Crystal Palace pursue Rangers&#8217; Bailey Rice &#8211; Scottish gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa and Crystal Palace are all pushing to secure the signing of Rangers&#8217; 19-year-old Scottish midfielder Bailey Rice. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/nottingham-forest\/bailey-rice-nottingham-forest-transfer-news-rangers-aston-villa-crystal-palace\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Teamtalk), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Celtic goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, 39, may require three further operations after having undergone initial surgery on his damaged shoulder. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/16217628\/celtic-kasper-schmeichel-shoulder-injury-hoops\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Sun), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Celtic&#8217;s long-term injured defender Cameron Carter-Vickers has resumed training but on-loan Borussia Monchengladbach forward Tomas Cvancara&#8217;s season could be over because of a groin strain that may require minor surgery. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/tomas-cvancara-risk-season-ending-37099905\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Record), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hibernian head coach David Gray is sure of full support from the home fans when second-placed Celtic visit Easter Road on Sunday, after suggestions Hibs fans would prefer Scottish Premiership leaders Hearts not to win the league. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com\/sport\/football\/hibs\/hibs-fans-back-home-team-celtic-hearts-title-race-david-gray-sure-8452613\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Edinburgh Evening News &#8211; subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dundee United will only sell left-back Will Ferry if the club&#8217;s valuation is met, says manager Jim Goodwin. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecourier.co.uk\/fp\/sport\/football\/dundee-united\/5482916\/will-ferry-dundee-united-transfer-stance-goodwin\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Courier &#8211; subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head coach Stephen Robinson states no Aberdeen player is guaranteed a place in his squad next term. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressandjournal.co.uk\/fp\/sport\/football\/aberdeen-fc\/7009671\/aberdeen-fc-stephen-robinson-players-future-warning\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Press and Journal &#8211; subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa and Crystal Palace are all pushing to secure the signing of Rangers&#8217; 19-year-old Scottish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-642359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}