{"id":276536,"date":"2025-11-22T02:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T02:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/276536\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T02:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T02:45:08","slug":"celtic-player-ruled-out-for-rest-of-season-world-cup-dream-in-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/276536\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic player ruled out for rest of season, World Cup dream in doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Carter-Vickers suffered an Achilles injury playing for the Scottish champions in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/topics\/europa-league\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Europa League<\/a> match against Sturm Graz at Parkhead last month and has since undergone an operation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  But caretaker O\u2019Neill, who will be in the dugout at the SMiSA Stadium in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-gazette.co.uk\/local-news\/paisley-news\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Paisley<\/a> tonight when the Glasgow club return to William Hill Premiership action against St Mirren, has admitted the defender will be sidelined for longer than medical staff had originally anticipated.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Read more:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 19-times capped 27-year-old had hoped to feature for his country in the World Cup finals in Canada, Mexico and the United States in June but the Northern Irishman is unsure if his player will be fit in time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Elsewhere, the Celtic interim manager has also stated that Callum Osmand, the young Welsh forward who netted in the Premier Sports Cup semi-final win over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/topics\/rangers-fc\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rangers<\/a> at Hampden earlier this month before suffering a hamstring injury in a Europa League game against Midtjylland in Norway, will also be out for longer than expected.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Celtic interim manager Martin O&#8217;Neill (Image: Stuart Wallace \/ Shutterstock)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Asked how long Carter-Vickers would be unavailable, he said, \u201cThe whole season. Funnily enough, I did ask him yesterday,\u00a0did he think he would be ready for the World Cup?\u00a0He said he thought that would be very doubtful. Yeah, we will not see him. I think it might be April before he&#8217;s even on grass.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  O\u2019Neill continued, \u201cJames Forrest is still missing. Kelechi Iheanacho has done some work,\u00a0but wouldn&#8217;t be ready for this (the St Mirren game).\u00a0With Alistair Johnston, it&#8217;ll be four or five months.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Read more:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cAlthough they had the same operation on the same day,\u00a0Callum Osmand was worse, believe it or not.\u00a0He\u2019ll be five months. Obviously Jota is out now.\u00a0I&#8217;ll not see him.\u00a0I&#8217;ll certainly not see any of those boys.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 73-year-old, though, was able to provide Celtic supporters with a positive update on Uruguayan left-back Marcelo Saracchi ahead of another big week for the Glasgow club.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;He will also be out, but he&#8217;s getting close again,\u201d he said. \u201cI&#8217;m hoping that some of these lads, if they don&#8217;t make the Feyenoord game, would at least be available for selection for the Hibs game. Which\u00a0might\u00a0not bother me &#8211; or it might.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carter-Vickers suffered an Achilles injury playing for the Scottish champions in the Europa League match against Sturm Graz&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-276536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276536","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=276536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}