{"id":565665,"date":"2026-07-24T09:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/565665\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T09:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:07:10","slug":"scottish-gossip-hogh-maeda-danilo-baur-souttar-hatate-mendy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/565665\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Gossip: Hogh, Maeda, Danilo, Baur, Souttar, Hatate, Mendy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangers striker Danilo has arrived in Brazil and is set to undergo a medical on Friday to complete the 27-year-old&#8217;s loan move to Botafogo. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-transfer-news\/transfer-news-live-celitc-rangers-37451751#entry923117\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Record, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">AC Milan have almost reached an agreement with Troyes to sign 20-year-old central defender Sankhoun Diawara, for whom Rangers and Basel have expressed an interest. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.footmercato.net\/a823546292295655031-sankhoun-diawara-va-filer-a-lac-milan\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Foot Mercato, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mikey Moore is &#8220;buzzing to be back&#8221; after playing the second half of Tottenham Hotspur&#8217;s 1-0 friendly victory over MK Dons, with the 18-year-old winger saying he has returned from his loan to Rangers a better player. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/sport\/26402365.mikey-moore-name-drops-rangers-massive-opportunity-arises\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Herald, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forest Green Rovers manager Robbie Savage has confirmed that the National League club will bank a record fee, which could rise to near seven figures, should 29-year-old midfielder Laurent Mendy agree personal terms with Heart of Midlothian. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-transfer-news\/transfer-news-live-celitc-rangers-37451751#entry923043\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Record, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Talks have been initiated to take 21-year-old centre-back Jadel Katongo to Aberdeen, according to sources in Turkey, but the finances involved will make striking an agreement with Kayserispor to sign the England Under-20 international very difficult. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-transfer-news\/jadel-katongo-aberdeen-transfer-target-37469874\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Record, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dundee United are still waiting for Major League Soccer to sanction the loan signing of 21-year-old left-back Philippe Ndinga from Philadelphia Union. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-transfer-news\/transfer-news-live-celitc-rangers-37451751#entry923037\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Record, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manager Jim Goodwin has vowed to &#8220;fight tooth and nail&#8221; to keep Lorenzo Sassetti, who became Dundee United&#8217;s youngest ever player on Tuesday at the age of 15, at the club despite the forward being tracked by several clubs in Serie A and the English top flight. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecourier.co.uk\/fp\/sport\/football\/dundee-united\/5543607\/lorenzo-sassetti-dundee-united-offer-jim-goodwin\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Courier, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jagiellonia Bialystok have confirmed that United States midfielder AZ Jackson has refused to return to Poland for pre-season training after the 24-year-old spent the second half of last season on loan to Vancouver Whitecaps and he will not feature against Rangers in Europa League qualifying. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/sport\/26403140.rangers-europa-league-foes-confirm-player-gone-awol\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Glasgow Times, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rangers striker Danilo has arrived in Brazil and is set to undergo a medical on Friday to complete&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-565665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565665","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=565665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}