{"id":797973,"date":"2026-10-10T10:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T10:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797973\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T10:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T10:06:09","slug":"celtic-decide-against-offering-tiemoue-bakayoko-deal-scottish-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797973\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic decide against offering Tiemoue Bakayoko deal &#8211; Scottish gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Celtic have decided against offering former Chelsea and AC Milan midfielder Tiemoue Bakayoko, 32, a deal after he trained with the Scottish champions during the international break. (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AnthonyRJoseph\/status\/2108591835492798618\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">Anthony Joseph, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangers vice-chairman Paraag Marathe says the club have adopted a short-term approach to push defending champions Celtic for the Scottish Premiership title. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/paraag-marathe-confesses-rangers-long-37756041\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Record &#8211; subscription required, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cheltenham forward Charlie McCann feels he should have stuck it out longer at Rangers, having rejected a contract extension to stay at Ibrox three years ago. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/16919894\/rangers-ibrox-regret-new-club-charlie-mccann-cheltenham\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sun, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Hibernian forward Derek Riordan urges patience as new manager Marink Reedijk takes charge at Easter Road. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com\/sport\/football\/hibs\/derek-riordan-in-hibs-assessment-ahead-of-marink-reedijk-era-9274588\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edinburgh Evening News &#8211; subscription required, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chris Cadden believes Aberdeen have shown character to overcome boos during their early season struggles. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressandjournal.co.uk\/fp\/sport\/football\/aberdeen-fc\/7127480\/aberdeen-fc-chris-cadden-targeting-league-resurgence\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Press and Journal &#8211; subscription required, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hearts defender Stephen Kingsley enjoys the challenge of playing in different positions. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com\/sport\/football\/hearts\/stephen-kingsley-ready-for-hearts-changes-as-premiership-conference-league-and-league-cup-run-starts-9275497\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edinburgh Evening News &#8211; subscription required, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster believes his counterparts at the Premier League are in an &#8220;uncomfortable&#8221; position as they look to sanction Manchester City over rule breaches. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/neil-doncaster-rangers-manchester-city-37754739\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Record &#8211; subscription required, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtic have decided against offering former Chelsea and AC Milan midfielder Tiemoue Bakayoko, 32, a deal after he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-797973","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\/797973","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=797973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}