{"id":282236,"date":"2025-11-25T09:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/282236\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T09:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:53:07","slug":"scottish-gossip-nancy-rodgers-barnes-weir-imrie-oriley-ali-naismith-ure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/282236\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish gossip: Nancy, Rodgers, Barnes, Weir, Imrie, O&#8217;Riley, Ali, Naismith, Ure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wilfried Nancy will target the January signing of 26-year-old Palestine striker Wessam Abou Ali from Columbus Crew should the Frenchman move to Celtic as manager from the Major League Soccer club in the coming days. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/15608267\/celtic-manager-wilfried-nancy-wessam-abou-ali-transfer\/?ref=ed_direct\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Scottish Sun), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Should Columbus Crew head coach Wilfried Nancy be confirmed as Celtic manager, he will bring with him fellow Frenchman Yoann Dammet and Irishman Kwame Ampadu, who coached Exeter City Under-18s when Celtic&#8217;s head of football operations Paul Tisdale was manager. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/sport\/football\/25646893.columbus-crew-staff-wilfried-nancy-wants-celtic\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(The Herald), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After a week of negotiations over compensation, Wilfried Nancy is poised to become Celtic manager and bring with him coach Kwame Ampadu, first-team analyst Max Chalier and fitness chief Jules Gueguen, but Yoann Damet could be in the running to take over as Columbus Crew head coach. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/wilfried-nancy-celtic-manager-latest-36299865\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Daily Record), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wilfried Nancy will bring with him a coach familiar with Celtic and Scottish football as part of his backroom team as the Columbus Crew head coach comes closer to becoming the Glasgow club&#8217;s new manager. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11095\/13474938\/celtic-manager-search-columbus-crew-boss-wilfried-nancy-in-advanced-talks-to-become-next-hoops-boss\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Sky Sports), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brendan Rodgers, a free agent since leaving Celtic, heads Leeds United&#8217;s manager shortlist, with Daniel Farke at serious risk of being sacked after the weekend defeat by Aston Villa. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/leeds-united\/daniel-farke-brink-leeds-united-sack-reliable-top-replacement-target\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(TeamTalk), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Weir is the favourite with some bookmakers to become Rangers&#8217; new sporting director despite the former Ibrox defender only recently taking up a similar role with Strasbourg. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/sport\/25646118.rangers-next-sporting-director-odds-frontrunner-emerges\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Glasgow Times), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wilfried Nancy will target the January signing of 26-year-old Palestine striker Wessam Abou Ali from Columbus Crew should&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-282236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282236","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=282236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}