{"id":911509,"date":"2026-09-27T10:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T10:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911509\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T10:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T10:58:09","slug":"scottish-gossip-matondo-gineitis-williamson-kerjota-mcguire-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911509\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Gossip: Matondo, Gineitis, Williamson, Kerjota, McGuire, Strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Rangers winger Rabbi Matondo is on trial with Hibernian while Torino midfielder Gvidas Gineitis admits joining Celtic would be of interest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Rangers winger Rabbi Matondo has joined Hibernian at their training camp in La Manga as the 26-year-old Wales international looks to win a contract after his summer release by Brann. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-transfer-news\/rabbi-matondo-gets-hibs-transfer-37705452\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Record, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lithuania midfielder Gvidas Gineitis, the 22-year-old who Celtic pursued this summer, says joining the Scottish champions from Torino &#8220;would be an interesting and rewarding experience&#8221;. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.15min.lt\/sportas\/naujiena\/futbolas\/milijonai-celtic-ir-isauges-svoris-rinktineje-gineitis-atvirai-apie-savo-vasara-24-2771952?ref=ed_direct\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">15min.It, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sabah Kerjota, the 25-year-old winger who joined Heart of Midlothian from Sambenedettese last year, says his journey from Italy&#8217;s Serie D to a first call-up by Albania is proof that data-driven recruitment can make dreams come true. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/owe-incredible-hearts-journey-jamestown-37705348\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Record, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangers goalkeeper Rydnn McGuire turned down offers from English clubs before signing a three-year contract as the 17-year-old sees a pathway to the first team at Ibrox. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rangersreview.co.uk\/interviews\/26578132.rangers-keeper-explains-new-contract-allan-mcgregor-help\/?ref=ed_direct\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rangers Review, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bobby Williamson admits his application to be the new Scotland head coach was not realistic despite Ally McCoist, Scott Brown and Kevin Thomson agreeing to be assistants, especially as his European coaching licence lapsed 10 years ago, but suggests his record of leading Kilmarnock to a Scottish Cup win and four regional  titles with Uganda is &#8220;not a bad career&#8221;. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/sport\/football\/bobby-williamson-opens-up-on-scotland-job-ridicule-exposing-a-40-year-rangers-secret-and-hibs-exile-9180067\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Scotsman, external<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Hamilton Academical owner Gerry Strain plans to take the Scottish Professional Football League to court unless it settles out of court after he challenged the Scottish FA&#8217;s decision to deem him &#8220;not fit and proper&#8221; to run the club last year. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/16868669\/spfl-chief-plans-court-action-dispute-heats\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scottish Sun, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Rangers winger Rabbi Matondo is on trial with Hibernian while Torino midfielder Gvidas Gineitis admits joining Celtic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-911509","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\/911509","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=911509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}