{"id":622346,"date":"2026-06-05T09:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622346\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:02:08","slug":"old-firm-miss-out-on-silas-andersen-as-nathan-patterson-linked-with-sheffield-united-scottish-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622346\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Firm miss out on Silas Andersen as Nathan Patterson linked with Sheffield United &#8211; Scottish gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Celtic defenders Alistair Johnston and Liam Scales may be up against each other when Canada face Republic of Ireland in Saturday morning&#8217;s friendly. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/16344886\/liam-scales-alistair-johnston-celtic-world-cup-ireland-canada\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Sun), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Celtic and Rangers appear to have missed out on BK Hacken midfielder Silas Andersen, who has opted to join Portugal&#8217;s Sporting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/sport\/26168171.celtic-rangers-admit-defeat-highly-rated-midfielder\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Herald &#8211; subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paraag Marathe remains &#8220;very, very involved&#8221; at Rangers, despite stepping down as vice-chairman and suggests there will be opportunities for players to move between Leeds United and Rangers, with both clubs in the 49ers Enterprises&#8217; stable. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk\/sport\/football\/leeds-united\/leeds-united-news-paraag-marathe-glasgow-rangers-transfer-window-8658975\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Yorkshire Evening Post), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Rangers captain and manager Barry Ferguson is eager to see how Findlay Curtis, 19, develops at Ibrox next season. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/findlay-curtis-ready-rangers-takeoff-37249561\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Record &#8211; subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtic defenders Alistair Johnston and Liam Scales may be up against each other when Canada face Republic of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-622346","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\/622346","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=622346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}