{"id":407478,"date":"2026-02-04T14:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/407478\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T14:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:15:08","slug":"celtic-set-for-2million-cash-windfall-from-former-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/407478\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic set for \u00a32million cash windfall from former striker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Former player Oh Hyeon-gyu is set to move to Besiktas in Turkey for \u00a313 million.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The South Korean international agreed on the move after Genk, his current club, accepted the offer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/sport\/celtic?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Celtic<\/a> sold him to the Belgian club 18 months ago for \u00a33.5 million with a sell-on clause.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This means the club will get a \u00a32 million windfall from the impending transfer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 24-year-old won five trophies with Celtic and scored ten goals in 32 appearances for Genk this season.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The transfer could have fetched the Scottish champions even more.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Unfortunately, though, a \u00a326 million move to Stuttgart in the last window fell through after the medical flagged knee issues.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He insisted that the last time he had any knee issues was when he was at school.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  However, Besiktas have no injury doubts about Oh, and, with the Turkish transfer window extended until this week, he will be able to complete a move.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This is possible as the Turkish transfer window has been extended until this week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Oh won five trophies with the Hoops during his short stay in Glasgow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former player Oh Hyeon-gyu is set to move to Besiktas in Turkey for \u00a313 million. The South Korean&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-407478","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\/407478","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=407478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}