{"id":579516,"date":"2026-05-12T08:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/579516\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:35:09","slug":"scottish-gossip-rangers-celtic-hibernian-st-johnstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/579516\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish gossip: Rangers, Celtic, Hibernian, St Johnstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangers are ready to reignite their interest in AEK Athens left-back James Penrice, formerly of Hearts and Livingston. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/sport\/football\/26097191.rangers-reignite-transfer-interest-aek-athens-star-james-penrice\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(The Herald &#8211; subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland midfielder Lewis Ferguson is happy at Bologna, but would consider offers from any of Europe&#8217;s top five leagues, according to his agent Bill McMurdo. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuttomercatoweb.com\/serie-a\/l-agente-di-ferguson-felice-di-restare-a-bologna-altrimenti-priorita-a-premier-e-serie-a-2232868\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Tuttomercato &#8211; in Italian), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Aberdeen and Hibernian winger Junior Hoilett would not be surprised to see Martin Boyle join the Dons this summer when the Australia international&#8217;s deal at Easter Road expires. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-transfer-news\/martin-boyle-aberdeen-transfer-chances-37130437\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Daily Record), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elie Youan appears to be leaving Hibernian after the French forward&#8217;s barber posted on social media: &#8220;Last haircut for @e.youan, four years deep.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/16252519\/spfl-barber-announces-departure-fans-slam\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Scottish Sun), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newly-promoted St Johnstone&#8217;s transfer budget will be 5-10% higher than their most recent season in the Scottish Premiership, says owner Adam Webb. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecourier.co.uk\/fp\/sport\/football\/st-johnstone\/5488955\/st-johnstone-adam-webb-summer-transfer-budget\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Courier), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangers legend Kris Boyd has predicted Celtic will win the league ahead of Hearts, but only if Martin O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s side beat Motherwell on Wednesday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/16251493\/kris-boyd-premiership-title-prediction-hearts-celtic\/?ref=ed_direct\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Scottish Sun), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rangers are ready to reignite their interest in AEK Athens left-back James Penrice, formerly of Hearts and Livingston.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-579516","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\/579516","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=579516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}