{"id":403840,"date":"2026-02-02T13:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/403840\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:05:10","slug":"celtic-reject-17m-bid-from-nottingham-forest-for-arne-engels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/403840\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic reject \u00a317m bid from Nottingham Forest for Arne Engels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celtic have rejected a bid of about \u00a317m from Nottingham Forest for Belgium midfielder Arne Engels.<\/p>\n

Forest failed with an initial \u00a314m offer for the 22-year-old and then had a second bid of \u00a317m also turned down.<\/p>\n

Engels joined Celtic<\/a> for \u00a311m from German club Augsburg in August 2024.<\/p>\n

He has played 89 times in all competitions for the Glasgow club and helped them win the Scottish Premiership and League Cup last season.<\/p>\n

“Honestly, I am telling you, I didn’t know anything about it,” said interim manager Martin O’Neill when asked about Forest’s bid following Celtic’s 2-0 win over Falkirk on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“If they have, then they must have done it during the game. And I would want it rebuffed, unless it was \u00a3100m. <\/p>\n

“Then I think the board would step in there. No, absolutely, I would rather keep him.”<\/p>\n

Both Celtic, who O’Neill says are close to making two signings,<\/a> and Forest are in the Europa League play-offs that take place this month. <\/p>\n

O’Neill’s side are second in the Premiership, six points behind leaders Heart of Midlothian, while Forest are 17th in the Premier League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtic have rejected a bid of about \u00a317m from Nottingham Forest for Belgium midfielder Arne Engels. Forest failed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-403840","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\/403840","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=403840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}