{"id":727928,"date":"2026-08-05T05:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T05:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/727928\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T05:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T05:04:15","slug":"celtic-gornik-zabrze-sign-paulo-bernardo-on-loan-with-option-to-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/727928\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic: Gornik Zabrze sign Paulo Bernardo on loan with option to buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Out-of-favour Celtic midfielder Paulo Bernardo has joined Gornik Zabrze on loan, with the Polish top-flight runners-up having an option to buy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old Portuguese has made 64 appearances for the Scottish champions since signing from Benfica in September 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But more than half of those have been as a substitute, he last started a game in February and he was not part of Martin O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s squad for Monday&#8217;s season-opening 1-0 win over Dundee in the Scottish Premiership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bernardo joins Gornik as they prepare to visit Ferencvaros in the Europa League third qualifying round on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Michal Gasparik&#8217;s side dropped down from Champions League qualifying after last week&#8217;s 2-1 aggregate defeat by Fenerbahce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They started their season with a 3-1 defeat by league champions Lech Poznan in the Polish Super Cup but beat Slask Wroclaw 2-1 in the opening game of the Ekstraklasa season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Out-of-favour Celtic midfielder Paulo Bernardo has joined Gornik Zabrze on loan, with the Polish top-flight runners-up having an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-727928","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\/727928","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=727928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}