{"id":197798,"date":"2025-10-13T19:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T19:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/197798\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T19:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T19:59:07","slug":"hearts-and-rangers-fired-celtic-title-warning-as-ex-player-talks-up-top-drawer-hoops-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/197798\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearts and Rangers fired Celtic title warning as ex-player talks up &#8216;top drawer&#8217; Hoops man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Celtic have plenty of talent within their squad to see off any title challenge from Rangers or Hearts.<\/p>\n<p>Despite remaining unbeaten domestically this season, Celtic sit second to Hearts in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/premiership-table\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scottish Premiership<\/a> table whilst Rangers are managerless and sit mid-table.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/news\/hurting-alex-rae-says-celtic-not-firing-and-makes-title-claim-one-day-after-rangers-sack-russell-martin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celtic have not been firing on all cylinders<\/a> and Hearts have found what seems to be the form of their life so far.<\/p>\n<p>But despite that, former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/club\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celtic<\/a> player Pat McGinlay has fired a warning to Hearts and Rangers as he says there is one man at the Bhoys who is just \u2018top drawer. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"687\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2232985683-1024x687.jpg\" alt=\"Rangers v Celtic - William Hill Premiership\" class=\"wp-image-313557\" \/>Photo by Ian MacNicol\/Getty ImagesCeltic will win the league as Pat McGinlay fires warning to Hearts and Rangers<\/p>\n<p>Celtic do have a number of key players out injured and off form but former player McGinlay believes that as soon as they come back, the league title will be in the bag.<\/p>\n<p>McGinlay told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/article\/282746297971389\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sunday Mail<\/a>, \u201cI fancy them to go on and win the league again this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRodgers is top drawer, isn\u2019t he? I don\u2019t think you get much better than Brendan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve got the players too. I just think the new boys are still trying to settle in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBenjamin Nygren looks a player but remember Jota is out, Tierney is still trying to find match fitness, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/news\/celtic-release-superb-alistair-johnston-training-footage-that-will-leave-fans-buzzing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alistair Johnson is close<\/a> to returning and when they all get up to speed with the new boys it\u2019ll be a different story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they start winning games again and invest in the January window then Celtic can move forward from this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Celtic play Hearts and Rangers<\/p>\n<p>Celtic are still to face the capital club yet this season. Hearts have already beaten Rangers at Ibrox and will fancy their chances against Rodgers\u2019 team.<\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t need to wait too long though as Celtic visit the capital on the 26th of October in what promises to be a superb match.<\/p>\n<p>As for Rangers, Rodgers has already drawn with the Glasgow club at Ibrox in a 0-0 draw earlier this season.<\/p>\n<p>Rangers visit Celtic Park on the 3rd of January where the Hoops boss will be hoping to inflict even more pain onto the Ibrox club at the New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtic have plenty of talent within their squad to see off any title challenge from Rangers or Hearts.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7336,218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-197798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-brendan-rodgers","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}