{"id":597514,"date":"2026-05-22T06:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/597514\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T06:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:20:11","slug":"celtic-martin-oneill-coy-on-celtic-future-before-scottish-cup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/597514\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic: Martin O’Neill coy on Celtic future before Scottish Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

He added: “When I first stepped in way back in October, that was my main concern. Not having managed for some time, there are different ways of playing the game.<\/p>\n

“That was my concern, not about destroying anything I might have done 20-odd years ago but being too old to be in this game. That is certainly a great sense of pride for me now.”<\/p>\n

Celtic had been linked with Motherwell’s Jens Berthel Askou, but he is joining Toulouse,<\/a> while Ferencvaros boss Robbie Keane has also been mentioned.<\/p>\n

O’Neill says he has not held major talks with Celtic’s hierarchy about a potential role next season.<\/p>\n

Asked if there will be any talks after the Scottish Cup final, the Northern Irishman said “I genuinely do not know”.<\/p>\n

“I would not have expected anyone to say anything to me anyway,” he added. <\/p>\n

“The response would have been we have to get Saturday out of the way and we’ll see what develops from there.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He added: “When I first stepped in way back in October, that was my main concern. Not having…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-597514","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\/597514","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=597514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}