{"id":813398,"date":"2026-10-25T12:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T12:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813398\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T12:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T12:12:10","slug":"scottish-gossip-kieran-mckenna-celtic-ross-mccausland-rangers-hibernian-hearts-aberdeen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813398\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish gossip: Kieran McKenna, Celtic, Ross McCausland, Rangers, Hibernian, Hearts, Aberdeen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Ipswich Town manager Kieran McKenna has strong admirers at Celtic, who are searching for a successor to Martin O&#8217;Neill, with the Northern Irishman&#8217;s contract up at the end of the season. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/celtic\/sources-kieran-mckennas-chances-rated-of-being-next-celtic-manager\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Football Insider), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangers winger Ross McCausland is set to leave the club in January after failing to break into Derek McInnes&#8217; plans. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/rangers\/ross-mccauslands-chances-of-leaving-rangers-in-january-revealed\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Football Insider), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hibernian midfielder Jamie McGrath says he can see the logic behind head coach Marink Reedijk&#8217;s decision to take the captaincy off Martin Boyle and insists they have what it takes to end their recent poor form. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/jamie-mcgrath-insists-hibs-minerals-37807556\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Daily Record), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stenhousemuir manager Marvin Bartley has criticised referee Calum Scott for allowing Saturday&#8217;s 3-0 Championship defeat by Partick Thistle to finish in &#8220;really dangerous&#8221; weather conditions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/16983565\/partick-thistle-stenhousemuir-marvin-bartley-mark-wilson-dangerous-condition\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Scottish Sun), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mats Knoester will have a scan on a thigh injury on Monday as Aberdeen sweat over the centre-back&#8217;s fitness. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressandjournal.co.uk\/fp\/sport\/football\/aberdeen-fc\/7137737\/aberdeen-fc-mats-knoester-thigh-injury-update\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Press and Journal), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jordi Altena is happy to play either at right-back or in midfield amid a mounting injury crisis at Hearts. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com\/sport\/football\/hearts\/hearts-find-a-new-midfield-option-after-relentless-injuries-9305100\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Edinburgh Evening News), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Ipswich Town manager Kieran McKenna has strong admirers at Celtic, who are searching for a successor to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-813398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813398","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=813398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}