{"id":282299,"date":"2026-02-05T15:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/282299\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T15:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:18:07","slug":"alex-oxlade-chamberlain-celtic-close-to-signing-former-liverpool-and-arsenal-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/282299\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain: Celtic close to signing former Liverpool and Arsenal midfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Arsenal and Liverpool midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is close to joining Scottish champions Celtic.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old has been a free agent since leaving Turkish side Besiktas in August.<\/a><\/p>\n

He has been training with Arsenal – where he made 198 appearances in a six-year spell – but BBC Sport has been told a move to Celtic Park is now likely, although a deal is still to be finalised. <\/p>\n

Hoops boss Martin O’Neil confirmed his interest in Oxlade-Chamberlain<\/a> this week and believes the interest is mutual. <\/p>\n

“I’ve spoken to him, but I’m sure he has plenty of options, maybe closer to London,” said O’Neill.<\/p>\n

“I’d be very interested in doing it. I’m surprised people haven’t taken him up.<\/p>\n

“I think he was very excited about what we were saying. He knows all about the club, he’s a big friend of Joe Hart and Joe has spoken to him – not on our behalf.<\/p>\n

“It’s something we’re interested in but if it doesn’t materialise, it doesn’t materialise.”<\/p>\n

Oxlade-Chamberlain started his career at Southampton and joined Arsenal in 2011, where he won three FA Cups. <\/p>\n

He moved to Liverpool for \u00a335m<\/a> and helped them win the Champions League, Premier League, League Cup, Super Cup and Club World Cup.<\/p>\n

However, he also suffered several injury setbacks including knee ligament damage that kept him out for a year from April 2018.<\/p>\n

A hamstring injury during pre-season in July 2022 then led to a three-month lay-off, with Oxlade-Chamberlain making only nine Premier League appearances in his final campaign with the Merseysiders.<\/p>\n

The England international joined Besiktas in 2023 and made 46 appearances, scoring five goals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Arsenal and Liverpool midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is close to joining Scottish champions Celtic. The 32-year-old has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-282299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}