{"id":616706,"date":"2026-06-02T08:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T08:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616706\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T08:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T08:32:11","slug":"scottish-gossip-keane-oneill-rohl-cathro-engels-miovski-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616706\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Gossip: Keane, O&#8217;Neill, Rohl, Cathro, Engels, Miovski, Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Title-winning interim manager Martin O&#8217;Neill and Robbie Keane, who recently quit as Ferencvaros head coach, are in a straight fight for the Celtic job, with major shareholder Dermot Desmond holding talks with the latter on Monday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/16331425\/celtic-manager-update-martin-oneill-robbie-keane\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Scottish Sun), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Celtic&#8217;s board members were set to meet with Robbie Keane on Monday evening as the former Republic of Ireland striker is earmarked as the frontrunner to be their new permanent manager. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/159820196?utm_campaign=postshare_fan\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Alan Nixon on Patreon), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robbie Keane would want a backroom team of Stephen Glass, who was his assistant at Ferencvaros, former Celtic captain Scott Brown and current youth coach Jonny Hayes should he become the Scottish champions&#8217; manager. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-transfer-news\/robbie-keane-pitches-celtic-backroom-37233894\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Daily Record), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangers head coach Danny Rohl has reportedly dropped down the pecking order in Wolfsburg&#8217;s next manager hunt, with the relegated German club setting their sights on Verl boss Tobias Strobl, according to reports in Germany. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/danny-rohl-sees-rangers-exit-37230667\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Daily Record), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Estoril sports director Helena Costa says they are still planning for next season with Ian Cathro as head coach but admits there is a lot of interest in the former Hearts and Dundee United boss. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/sport\/26154541.estoril-chief-admits-interested-parties-ex-hearts-boss-cathro\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(The Herald), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arne Engels has joined a new agency as he seeks a move away from Celtic and several Premier League and Serie A clubs, including AC Milan, are monitoring the 22-year-old midfielder. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sachatavolieri\/status\/2061466180276387940?s=20\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">(Sacha Tavolieri on X), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain&#8217;s fiancee, Little Mix singer Perrie Edwards, is hoping Celtic take up the option to extend the 32-year-old midfielder&#8217;s contract for another season. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5b3gkED0q1k&amp;list=PLf19CbDvjJRY4ExR8P86pDHU5leX9lPuH&amp;index=2\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Hanging Out With Ant &amp; Dec Podcast), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Celtic have again rejected an offer from Lech Poznan to sign Luis Palma following the winger&#8217;s loan spell and the Polish champions have a week to pay the \u00a33.5m option to buy with Sevilla monitoring the 26-year-old&#8217;s situation. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlvaroDLaRocha\/status\/2061450111138378208?s=20\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">(De La Rocha on X), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sevilla have entered the race to sign Celtic winger Luis Palma after the Scottish champions rejected Lech Poznan&#8217;s attempt to negotiate their option-to-buy from \u00a33.5m to around \u00a32.6m. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AnthonyRJoseph\/status\/2061508267746951669?s=20\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">(Anthony Joseph on X), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Title-winning interim manager Martin O&#8217;Neill and Robbie Keane, who recently quit as Ferencvaros head coach, are in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-616706","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\/616706","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=616706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}