{"id":262246,"date":"2025-11-14T10:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T10:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/262246\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T10:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T10:48:11","slug":"daizen-maeda-wants-to-leave-celtic-in-january-scottish-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/262246\/","title":{"rendered":"Daizen Maeda wants to leave Celtic in January &#8211; Scottish gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beni Baningime, Cammy Devlin, Alan Forrest, Craig Gordon, Craig Halkett and Frankie Kent are among the Hearts players out of contract at the end of the season. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/sport\/football\/hearts\/latest-hearts-news\/hearts-contracts-2526-here-are-all-10-tynecastle-players-out-of-contract-at-gorgie-in-the-summer-5401531?page=1\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Scotsman &#8211; subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Top Serie A clubs have joined Rangers, Chelsea, Bayer Leverkusen and Tottenham Hotspur in the race to sign 19-year-old Nigerian midfielder Sani Suleiman, who currently plays for Slovakian club Trencin. <a href=\"https:\/\/rudygaletti.substack.com\/p\/chelsea-target-sani-suleiman-named\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Rudy Galetti on Substack), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says Rangers contacted his agent about their head coach role, but he did not get round to speaking to the Ibrox club before the appointment of Danny Rohl. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5ZvbV7HZtVA\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Stick To Football podcast), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Midfielder Findlay Marshall, 19, hopes he has boosted his Aberdeen chances with his loan spell at Arbroath. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressandjournal.co.uk\/fp\/sport\/football\/aberdeen-fc\/6893385\/aberdeen-findlay-marshall-on-arbroath-loan\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Press and Journal &#8211; subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dante Polvara &#8220;has been more stable in his position&#8221;, says Aberdeen manager Jimmy Thelin. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/jimmy-thelin-explains-dante-polvara-36241077\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Record), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Veteran former Aberdeen, Celtic, Hearts and Scotland winger Gary Mackay-Steven, 35, can still be a game changer at Ross County, says manager Tony Docherty. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressandjournal.co.uk\/fp\/sport\/football\/ross-county\/6893074\/ross-county-tony-docherty-on-gary-mackay-steven\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Press and Journal), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dundee manager Steven Pressley would be happy to see goalkeeper Jon McCracken called up by Scotland but is pleased to have the 25-year-old&#8217;s sole focus on Dens Park matters for now. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecourier.co.uk\/fp\/sport\/football\/dundee-fc\/5371739\/steven-pressley-happy-dundee-jon-mccracken-scotland\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Courier &#8211; subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scott McKenna believes &#8220;performances on the pitch are the only way we can really thank&#8221; Scotland head coach Steve Clarke. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/scott-mckenna-looks-reward-loyal-36243544\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Record), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Juventus head coach Thiago Motta rejected an approach to become the new manager of Greece despite Ivan Jovanovic being handed a vote of confidence by their FA before Saturday&#8217;s World Cup qualifier against Scotland, according to reports in Greece. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/sport\/25618700.greece-rocked-ahead-crunch-world-cup-clash-scotland\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(National &#8211; subscription required), external<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hamilton Academical owner Seref Zengin intends to challenge the &#8220;fit and proper person&#8221; sanctions that he and director Gerry Strain have received from the Scottish FA but has this week held fresh talks with a potential buyer for the League 1 club. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/sport\/25620936.hamilton-owner-director-fight-fit-proper-ban\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Herald &#8211; subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zengin believes there are attempts to force Accies into administration. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/local-sport\/furious-hamilton-accies-chief-accuses-36240162\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Record), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beni Baningime, Cammy Devlin, Alan Forrest, Craig Gordon, Craig Halkett and Frankie Kent are among the Hearts players&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-262246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262246","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=262246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}