\n The midfielder agreed to the mutual termination of his contract with Besiktas in August and has recently been training with former club Arsenal.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n While reports claimed that Oxlade-Chamberlain was keen to remain close to his family, sources close to the player have told Herald Sport that talks with Celtic are positive and progressing well.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n O\u2019Neill plans to revisit the matter when he returns to his desk after travelling back from Aberdeen after last night\u2019s scheduled Premiership clash was postponed by a waterlogged pitch.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
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\n The deadline to register a squad for forthcoming Europa League knockout tie with VfB Stuttgart is midnight on Thursday. With time short, it remains to be seen whether a deal might be rushed through in time to bring Oxlade-Chamberlain in to the equation.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n The Parkhead club completed the capture of Junior Adamu, Joel Mvuka and Benjamin Arthur before the signing deadline on Monday night.\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n And O\u2019Neill is keen to add Oxlade-Chamberlain\u2019s experience to his options, saying: \u201cHe could play midfield for us easily. Is he one of those players who could go past players on the outside wide? I wouldn\u2019t be sure. But he could do a job.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n The cancellation of last night\u2019s Pittodrie clash\u00a0was blamed by Aberdeen on\u00a0“prolonged rain over the last few weeks”, Celtic returning to third place in the Premiership after Rangers secured a thumping 5-1 win over ten man Kilmarnock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The midfielder agreed to the mutual termination of his contract with Besiktas in August and has recently been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-408770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408770","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=408770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}