{"id":625320,"date":"2026-06-07T02:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T02:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/625320\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T02:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T02:32:08","slug":"reo-hatate-informs-celtic-of-his-desire-to-leave-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/625320\/","title":{"rendered":"Reo Hatate informs Celtic of his desire to leave this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Signed from Kawasaki Frontale in January 2022, Hatate remains under contract until 2028.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A largely unused substitute as Martin O\u2019Neill\u2019s side pushed towards a league and cup double in the final weeks of the season, the 28-year-old believes that a transfer would be best for both parties. And Celtic have been made aware of his wish to go.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As Herald Sport first revealed, O\u2019Neill is set to be confirmed as permanent manager on a one-year contract with the option for another 12 months.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Already attracting interest from elsewhere, Hatate has yet to draw any firm offers but will be one of a growing number of players to leave Parkhead as a summer rebuild gets underway.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel and defender Stephen Welsh have already left the club while question marks remain over the future of Kelechi Iheanacho and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Countryman Daizen Maeda also looks to have played his final game after a move to Wolfsburg fell through last summer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Belgian midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/topics\/arne-engels\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arne Engels<\/a> has been linked with a move to Italian giants AC Milan after a deadline-day \u00a325million move to Nottingham Forest fell through in January.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Maik Nawrocki will be allowed to leave while January loan signings Julian Araujo, Tomas Cvancara, Benjamin Arthur, Junior Adamu and Joel Mvuka have also returned to their parent clubs.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Reports in Japan claim, meanwhile, that defender Hayato Inamura has also agreed a \u00a31.5million move to FC Tokyo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Signed from Kawasaki Frontale in January 2022, Hatate remains under contract until 2028. A largely unused substitute as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-625320","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\/625320","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=625320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}