{"id":322707,"date":"2025-12-18T12:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T12:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/322707\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T12:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T12:06:10","slug":"scottish-gossip-mcculloch-nancy-naismith-leven-ganaye-martindale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/322707\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish gossip: McCulloch, Nancy, Naismith, Leven, Ganaye, Martindale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangers want former player Lee McCulloch, who is currently talent acquistion manager with Premier League club Brighton and Hove Albion, to join their recruitment set-up at Ibrox. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ReluctantNicko\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Alan Nixon on Patreon), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gauthier Ganaye does not have the CV required to replace Patrick Stewart as Rangers&#8217; new chief executive despite his experience with Barnsley and Nice, according to former Aberdeen and Everton and Aston Villa chief executive Keith Wyness. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/hes-nowhere-near-the-stature-for-rangers-keith-wyness-unimpressed-by-contender\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Football Insider), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Under-fire Celtic manager Wilfried Nancy would land on his feet should he lose his job, as he is the preferred coaching target for Ligue 2 promotion chasing Saint-Etienne. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foot-sur7.fr\/712002-mercato-asse-wilfried-nancy-deja-sur-la-sellette-au-celtic\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Foot Sur), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Kilmarnock striker Steven Naismith is in the running for the manager&#8217;s job at Rugby Park after Stuart Kettlewell was sacked on Monday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/steven-naismiths-return-to-scottish-premiership-now-on-the-cards-as-announcement-made\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Football Insider), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aberdeen first-team coach Peter Leven is the bookmakers&#8217; favourite to be Kilmarnock&#8217;s new manager, ahead of Livingston&#8217;s David Martindale and interim boss Kris Doolan. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/sport\/football\/next-kilmarnock-manager-odds-ex-rangers-men-celtic-hero-and-scotland-duo-tipped-to-replace-stuart-kettlewell-5446932\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(The Scotsman), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Aberdeen manager Barry Robson, recently sacked by Raith Rovers, was pictured alongside Heart of Midlothian head coach Derek McInnes at a first-team training session at the Oriam on Wednesday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com\/sport\/football\/hearts\/former-aberdeen-manager-spotted-at-hearts-training-alongside-derek-mcinnes-ahead-of-rangers-clash-5447177\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Edinburgh Evening News), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rangers want former player Lee McCulloch, who is currently talent acquistion manager with Premier League club Brighton and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-322707","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\/322707","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=322707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}