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Celtic target Turkish goalkeeper
Celtic will be in the market for a goalkeeper this summer season after Joe Hart announced his decision to retire at the stop of the season. Brendan Rodgers’ facet have already been linked with Liverpool’s wide variety two and the Republic of Ireland worldwide Caoimhin Kelleher. Now a new title has entered the mix with reports in Turkey claiming the Parkhead club are monitoring Trabzonspor captain Uğurcan Çakır. Turkey worldwide has saved 9 smooth sheets for the Super Lig aspect this season, conceding 33 dreams from 29 games. According to news outlet Günebakış, Celtic have placed the 27-year-old on their watchlist with any go probably coming down to Trabzonspor’s valuation of the player. Çakır has 26 caps for Turkey and was named as the goalkeeper with the very best keep percentage in Europe just two years ago.
Defoe forced into Ibrox role
Former Rangers striker Jermaine Defeo has claimed he used to be “forced” into a player-coach role through Steven Gerrard in his last season at Ibrox. The 41-year-old was appointed to Gerrard’s backroom workforce in the summer of 2021 quickly before the Liverpool legend quit to take cost of Aston Villa. Defoe then had his coaching duties removed when Gerrard’s successor, Giovanni van Bronckhorst, brought in his management team with a selection made for the then 38-year-old to focal point of playing. However, the former England international has now claimed he wasn’t keen on the Rangers coaching function in the first place. Speaking to Troy Deeney on the Football Firsts podcast, Defoe said: “Before I went to Sunderland, I hadn’t performed in about two or three months. Stevie (Gerrard) went and Giovanni van Bronckhorst got here in. I had an assembly with him and he stated to me, ‘Listen, what’s this player/coach thing?’. ‘I see you in training, you’re sharp, what’s the situation? Do you choose to play or do you desire to coach?’ I said I prefer to play. To be honest, I didn’t even favor the player/coach role. It used to be forced upon me. So I decided to go to Sunderland.”
Abada set for ex-Celtic reunion
Liel Abada’s impending Celtic exit ought to see him hyperlink up with a former Parkhead teammate in the MLS. According to reviews in Israel, the 22-year-old winger is in talks with Atalanta United, who signed Giorgos Giakoumakis from Celtic remaining season, as well as Austin FC. Abada has been left out of the Celtic squad for the past three suits after supervisor Brendan Rodgers printed he is now not in the proper frame of mind to play. It comes amid stress from the Israel countrywide side over a part of the Celtic help displaying assist Palestine.
Aberdeen choose Celtic outcast
Aberdeen are eyeing a move for Celtic’s third-choice goalkeeper Benjamin Siegrist this summer, according to a report. The 32-year-old has barely performed for the Parkhead side due to the fact completing a pass from Dundee United in the summertime of 2022, making simply two League Cup appearances after falling behind Joe Hart and Scott Bain in the pecking order. The Daily Record declares that with the current Aberdeen range one Kelle Roos out of contract in the summer, and probable to pass on, the Dons recruitment group has positioned Siegrist excessively up their list of conceivable pursuits for subsequent seasons. Siegrist is beneath contract at Celtic till 2026 so the Dons would likely need to pay a switch charge for the Swiss stopper or try to impenetrable him on loan.
Rangers star’s secret issue
Dujon Sterling has published that he used to be battling a secret eye issue for the opening months of his Rangers career. The 24-year-old was once signed via Michael Beale from Chelsea in the summer however only managed a handful of appearances earlier than finally becoming a first-group regular below Beale’s successor Philippe Clement. However, the defender, who can additionally function in midfield, has now lifted the lid on one of the motives at the back of his slow start at Ibrox. “Back at the beginning of November, I woke up one day and had a couple of black strains in my eyeline,” Sterling explained. “I assume the period they use is floaters. I had that and it was once still giving me problems for a couple of weeks. It was once blurry at the pinnacle of my eye so I couldn’t virtually see whatever was on my right side. I said to the gaffer that I wanted to play. But say, for example, it used to be nil-nil, and in the final minute a ball comes over and I can’t see it. I didn’t prefer to affect the group by taking part in it when I knew I wasn’t a hundred percent right. He said, ‘That’s fine’ and to take as a lot time as I wanted to get it sorted and that they’d utterly guide me. I noticed a couple of specialists. They helped however it simply went away employing itself. I assume it was once solely after the cup remained that it disappeared. Even in the cup ultimate I still had a tiny bit of it in the top corner. But now it’s gone. I don’t recognize what triggered it – they simply couldn’t say. Even now I don’t know. I’ll have some other check-ups in a couple of weeks. It’s just a time thing. There was nothing to take. They said they could do laser however that might affect me when I used to be older so I decided just to wait.”
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