{"id":714993,"date":"2026-07-28T08:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T08:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/714993\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T08:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T08:06:08","slug":"rangers-close-to-deal-for-olwethu-makhanya-as-kasper-hogh-passes-celtic-medical-scottish-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/714993\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers close to deal for Olwethu Makhanya as Kasper Hogh passes Celtic medical – Scottish gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rangers are nearing a \u00a35m deal to sign Philadelphia Union’s South Africa defender Olwethu Makhanya, 22. (Sun, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The Ibrox club could sign Makhanya for \u00a33m. (Record – subscription required, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Mohamed Diomande, 24, is eager to be part of new manager Derek McInnes’ Rangers regime despite increased competition in midfield. (Scotsman – subscription required, external<\/a>) <\/p>\n

And Diomande prefers playing with new team-mate Cammy Devlin, 28, than against the former Hearts midfielder. (Record – subscription required, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Sturm Graz head coach Fabio Ingolitsch expects up to five changes to the Hearts line-up as the Austrian side take a 4-0 first-leg lead into Tuesday’s Champions League second qualifying round return leg at Tynecastle. (Edinburgh Evening News – subscription required, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Bodo\/Glimt’s Denmark forward Kasper Hogh, 25, passed a medical in London on Monday evening and is close to being announced as Celtic’s latest signing. (Sun, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Former Celtic player Vidar Riseth believes Hogh is worth almost double the \u00a311m fee Scottish champions are set to pay Bodo\/Glimt. (Record – subscription required, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Dundee United are set to sign Basaksehir midfielder Abdoulaye Yoro, 19 but Philadelphia Union left-back Philippe Ndinga, 21, is expected to join Zulte Waregem rather than the Tannadice club. (Courier – subscription required, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rangers are nearing a \u00a35m deal to sign Philadelphia Union’s South Africa defender Olwethu Makhanya, 22. (Sun, external)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-714993","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\/714993","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=714993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}