{"id":705172,"date":"2026-06-15T09:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/705172\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T09:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:17:06","slug":"scottish-gossip-bowie-mcinnes-basic-forbes-eskesen-mcglynn-pressley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/705172\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish gossip: Bowie, McInnes, Basic, Forbes, Eskesen, McGlynn, Pressley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With four signings already in place, Heart of Midlothian will make up to six more by the time the summer window closes and there will very likely also be one or two departures. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com\/sport\/football\/hearts\/hearts-transfer-movements-as-the-summer-window-opens-in-scotland-8690329\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Edinburgh Evening News), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A striker and centre-half are Hibernian&#8217;s priorities in the summer transfer window. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com\/sport\/football\/hibs\/hibs-transfer-window-early-deals-top-targets-8689635\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Edinburgh Evening News), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cove Rangers hope to continue to take young Aberdeen players on loan next season. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressandjournal.co.uk\/fp\/sport\/football\/cove-rangers\/7032987\/cove-rangers-hoping-to-land-more-young-aberdeen-players\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Press &amp; Journal), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hearts head coach Derek McInnes, who is poised to join Rangers, did not reject the Ibrox club as has been claimed in 2017 but instead turned down the switch from Aberdeen because of a late shift by then chairman Dave King during contract talks. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/derek-mcinnes-didnt-reject-rangers-37292816\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Daily Record), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hearts are unlikely to turn to two former Tynecastle stalwarts &#8211; Falkirk&#8217;s John McGlynn and Dundee&#8217;s Steven Pressley &#8211; as a replacement should head coach McInnes join Rangers &#8211; but could still shop again in the Scottish market. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/hearts-next-manager-clues-lie-37293707\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Daily Record), external<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Luke Graham of Dundee tops Rangers&#8217; wishlist once McInnes takes over. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-transfer-news\/12-rangers-transfers-derek-mcinnes-37292975\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Daily Record), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With four signings already in place, Heart of Midlothian will make up to six more by the time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-705172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}