Use our rumours form to send us celtic transfer rumours.
Please subscribe and join us on our Youtube Channel for The Bawz&Bovril podcast, and you can find all our platforms on our Linktree.
Text Size Adjuster: 18px 23 Jun 2026 16:25:59 Most of the posts go to the Celtic Banter page. Also a lot of the posts go to the SPFL Posts page.
22 Jun 2026 12:02:53
Edd, is there any concrete rumours out there about signing anyone, a think Sarachi is only thts mb close and probably still only a mb,1wk on pre season starting n still nothing, ano ul b sick of replying to it mate but a look at our site any spare minute a get 🥲.
0
{Ed007's Note - It's still very early in the window - teams/targets/priorities will change - but I've spent the last couple of days trying to find out as much as I can:
GK:- With Jari De Busser deciding to stay in Holland for family reasons it looks like it could be a straight choice between Dominik Livakovic or Angus Gunn as our No.1 or if we stay with Sinisalo, Callum Ward from Motherwell could come in as No.2.
Marcelo Saracchi:- The deal should be finalised this week with all parties eager to get it done.
Zinedin Smajlovic:- Reports of Celtic having an offer rejected appear to be wide of the mark, it never got to that stage as far as I know.
Oskar Wojcik:- Long term Celtic target and we might step up that interest depending on exits.
George Campbell:- He's been scouted and supposedly MON/Maloney like him but I don't know of there's been any actual contact with WBA or his agent.
Julian Araujo:- He is available but the only way I can see him being back at Celtic is if AJ leaves. Personally I'd go in with another cheeky loan but with an option/obligation for next summer.
Elijah Just:- Celtic have spoke to Motherwell and Just's agent but the player is concentrating on the WC and will weigh up his options after that.
Jakob Breum:- Go Ahead Eagles have confirmed they are ready to sell, valued at circa 4 million Euros, Celtic could steal a march on on any rivals for Breum's after failing in January.
Benjamin Tahirovic:- His agent is speaking to clubs, including Celtic & Porto - their manager knows Tahirovic from their time together at Ajax - but Brondby are hoping a good WC will push his fee up to circa €7m Euros from the €4.5 they previously told his agent.
Ivan Basic: Celtic will struggle to sign Basic if Eintracht Frankfurt decide to firm up their interest imo.
Felix Horn Myhre:- Hs said himself he expects to move this summer and it looks like a straight choice between Celtic and Brondby so far.
Cole Campbell:- The €7m fee is proving a stumbling block for interested teams, could Celtic try a cheeky loan with an option/obligation to buy?
Kasper Hogh:- Celtic, Norwich, Southampton, Werder Bremen and Wolfsburg have all spoken to Bodo/Glimt and Hogh's agent
Camilo Duran:- Celtic have spoken to Qarabag and his agent. Seemingly the player is keen on the move.
Lorent Tolaj:- There's plenty of interest in him, Celtic, TRIFC and half the English Championship for a start as well as clubs like Anderlecht & Lorient.
Elias Filet:- Celtic were interested but bizarrely he now looks set for a move to Belgian club RAAL La Louviere - nah me neither🤷🏻♂️
Kieron Bowie:- Is looking for a move back to the UK, Celtic are interested but his agent seems keener than us. Reading between the lines he wants back to Scotland and Celtic are the only Club that can realistically afford him.
6
22 Jun 2026 19:57:13
A yes or a no wouldve done🤣that was an excellent reply mate thanks half of them i havnt heard of so can look them up now. 👍.
1
{Ed007's Note - 👍🏻🍀Right leave me alone for a few weeks now 😂
2
22 Jun 2026 21:31:33
Not a great calibre of player there. Hogh, sarrachi and maybe the lad tahirovic the only ones excites me. Can't see this lot taking us to the next level in Europe.
1
{Ed007's Note - Well you know a Hell of a lot more about most of them than me but I'd agree we won't get into the latter stages of the CL next year regardless of who we sign.
Who would you be going for to take us to "the next level in Europe"?
0
22 Jun 2026 23:26:30
For the money we will spend this is the calibre of player we will likely be chasing. I agree ed we will not reach the latter stages of the CL regardless of who we sign but after the shambles of last season, especially Kairat, reaching the groupstage of the CL and finish within the top 24 would be a great achievement and very realistic if we properly prepare for it.
Some players i would like us to be enquiring about in and around 10m or less
Ousmane Diao (midtjylland)
Fredrik sjovold (bodo)
Elliott Stroud (mjallby)
Mattia Zanotti (lugano)
Sergio Arribas (almeria)
alvyn sanchez (young boys)
Toni Fruk (rijeka)
Diego Luna (salt lake)
Dario Osorio (midtjylland)
Jonas Wind (wolfsburg)
Kevin Denkey (cincinatti)
Thats a handful of players that should be within our budget that IMO anyway would improve us. Albeit a few of them would likely break our transfer record. And whether they would want to come is a different matter.
0
23 Jun 2026 08:12:32
Wee Scratchy's agent today said no contact at all yet.
0
23 Jun 2026 09:05:07
Great info, I’ve been trying to pry this out of you Ed.
0
{Ed007's Note - 👍🏻🍀
0
23 Jun 2026 12:52:11
Some good names there DT. Been saying for a good few windows about Fruk and said he was a like for like for MoR before we signed Engles. We was interested in Sanchez a few windows ago when he was valued around £3m.
Looks a player and will likely cost £8-9m now. But I'd like both signed if we had any ambition and sold Hatate and Nygren.
0
23 Jun 2026 12:49:36
Ed have you heard anything about us submitting a bid for Smajlovic of €4.5m with a further €2m in add ons? Seems like a story that's recently been posted?
0
{Ed007's Note - I seen that on Twitter but I've no idea if it's true or not. What I put is what I was told over the weekend so they could well have put in a bid by now 🤷🏻♂️
22 Jun 2026 14:28:14
The vultures are circling aj hope we don't lose him as he's irreplaceable.
2
22 Jun 2026 17:18:33
I think the vultures where there pre Injury, it’s fine selling
As long as we have next in line, Copenhagen Brugge etc seem to sell and buy sell and buy, we sell lol.
1
22 Jun 2026 21:08:46
Good player yes irreplaceable no, great going forward defensively suspect at times, lucky on some occasions to get away with his rash challenges even before his injury, but heart and desire he has in abundance which helped last few games of the season.
21 Jun 2026 14:28:33
Glad to see us looking to bring Saracchi back, thought the wee guy was a great wee player.
The bonus also is that we won't need to wait on DD reading his blackberry as the price is under £3m.
Hopefully the deal is done quickly and followed by a few more.
9
21 Jun 2026 14:58:03
I thought he was the difference in the final game of season. Definitely on a par with Tierney. A no brainer for me.
12
21 Jun 2026 18:25:39
I’d play him and Tierney together and forget a left winger. Both get forward and put balls in the box. Something our current wingers seem incapable of doing.
7
21 Jun 2026 21:22:13
Apparently had a €4m bid knocked back for Swedish CB Smajlovic also. Guy looks a big handful and I believe he plays at LCB so could mean Trusty may be sold.
2
22 Jun 2026 10:09:18
Always knocked back reports, never a bid accepted.
1
22 Jun 2026 12:44:51
Seems there wasn't even a bid placed and he looks off to Olympiakos 🙄.
1
22 Jun 2026 18:10:47
Elias Filet - not sure of what interest we had but he signed for some small Belgian outfit RAAL Louvière.
19 Jun 2026 16:14:10
007 are you aware of the rumour circulating that other board members or shareholders are sick of DDs meddling and that a major rift has developed.
It ties in with what you mentioned the other day.
1
{Ed007's Note - I've heard/read about it bud but honestly, at this time of the year the majority of stuff flying about is just clickbait nonsense.
In the last 7 days we've went from Maloney & Fotheringham being offered less money etc to Scott Brown coming in to Maloney and Fotheringham agreeing deals.}
4
19 Jun 2026 20:14:30
Defo ed 007 seen lennon n broonie replacing maloney n fozzy today 🤣🤣🤣.
0
{Ed007's Note - Even though Maloney has a job with us and NL has a job at Dunfermline...🤷🏻♂️😂
Supposedly Maloney & Fotheringham were on holiday - not together, that would just be weird - and were due back last weekend, everything was agreed in principle with them, MON & DD and it's took a few days to finalise it all, it was never that a big deal.
One of the "stumbling blocks" with Maloney was/is that he had his Pathways Manager role contract and this new deal with MON is only a year and an option of another - maybe that's where the financial side of it came into it 🤷🏻♂️
The same folk peddling the story about Maloney & Fotheringham say well why couldn't their agents deal with it are the same folk telling us MON & Robbie Keane had about 40 interviews a week with DD.
6
19 Jun 2026 20:27:02
Thanks mate👍.
2
{Ed007's Note - 👍🏻🍀
1
20 Jun 2026 07:25:58
What players are coming in lol?
19 Jun 2026 16:20:05
I do not know how strong our interest is but I heard this rumour today
We are interested in the Hibs player Chaiwa and also the Croatian goalkeeper Litavenko (spelling)
1
19 Jun 2026 17:16:44
Livakovic? We was linked with him before. Should definitely be the kind of keeper we go for.
19 Jun 2026 14:18:44
Reports say backroom team close, I’m really looking forward to starting to hear from mom, he doesn’t give much away to press but I feel he often knows what fans are wanting
To hear and gives an honest
View, I suspect he’s been majorly
Assessing the potential transfer list, well that’s obviously me hoping.
2
19 Jun 2026 18:45:01
Have you heard from your mom yet?
2
{Ed007's Note - 😂😂
2
20 Jun 2026 17:01:27
Well spotted and below the belt,
18 Jun 2026 11:14:26
So its official, flag day is Monday the 3rd with a half 7 kick off to help travelling fans instead of 8pm. Absolute joke 🤬.
5
18 Jun 2026 13:15:46
Hight time Celtic told Sevco-Sly to fuck-off. Once again the League Champions treated with utter contempt by the ultra biased bastions.
7
18 Jun 2026 17:47:35
Apparently its police Scotland. Too busy with another event over the weekend, according to club statement.
3
{Ed007's Note - There's a Calvin Harris (no, me neither🤷🏻♂️) is playing at Hampden and the Commonwealth games are still on as well I'm sure.}
3
18 Jun 2026 22:59:58
I have a confession to make. Please be kind. 2009.August. Two HUGE events in Glasgow that night. The police could do the two then! I went to U2.
2
19 Jun 2026 08:33:49
Commonwealth games going on right across the road in the velodrome over the weekend the football kicks off along with a concert.
Police resources stretched to much. There's no way the police could resource all the events.
So unfortunately for the narrative it's got nothing to do with getting treated with contempt or showing favoritism to another team. It's simply logistically not possible.
Let's stop the paranoia.
8
19 Jun 2026 14:19:13
We played a CL game against Arsenal that night and U2 were at Hampden.
2
20 Jun 2026 12:18:48
Steff was the Commonwealth games going ahead right accross the road that night as well?
17 Jun 2026 11:59:31
Morning 007. What's your take on the Alvaro Rodriguez links? Have you or any of the other Eds got any scoop on him? He's been popping up for a wee while now, not on the most credible sites and I'd imagine he'll have offers, but he's easily one of the few genuinely exciting names I've seen linked and isn't going away.
1
{Ed007's Note - Alvaro Rodriguez would rather stay in Spain but if that doesn't happen I think Bologna would have the best chance of getting him out of the teams that are reported interested, but Real Madrid will have a say as they retained a 50% ownership of and buyback clause on the player.}
15 Jun 2026 21:00:22
Celtic have held talks with 20 year old American winger Cole Campbell from borussia dortmund he’s been told he isn’t in the managers plans and to look for game time elsewhere he was on loan at hoffenheim last season they chose not to activate his 7.5 million euro release clause.
3
15 Jun 2026 21:54:53
Reading about this lad. He's made 5 appearances for Dortmund in 2vyesrs and in his loan spell made 5 appearances.
He has 2 senior goals for Dortmund B team.
Not exactly great figures.
3
16 Jun 2026 06:23:11
The Americans and Canadians in build up to this World Cup made great connections to Europe that saw there best talent developed here, if Celtic can tap into that I’m all for it, wether he’s good enough none of us will really know, the release clause was prob too high so if we can get him for fraction of that might be good business.
Watching just score a couple at World Cup can’t help thinking that’s where some of our answers lie. but is he physical enough for a mon team that I think this year he may want to.
3
16 Jun 2026 10:22:45
Hoffenmeim never triggered £6.8 mill release clause. he's obviously not anywhere near starting 11 ready so the biscuit tinners won't be paying 6.8 mill. probably a loan that will never play and mire wages out the door. give that board more bonuses.
2
16 Jun 2026 11:31:20
As we all expected, nothing learned from or improved upon in our so-called Recruitment Dept from the past. MON winning the double last season has given them a free pass to continued incompetence and amateurish antics in the transfer market.
3
16 Jun 2026 12:50:07
Wait a minute so are we writing a 20 year old off that’s played for 2 of the strongest clubs in Europe the passed couple of seasons?
Never seen Calum Osmand get many minutes for first team and he seems to be the messiah?
8
16 Jun 2026 13:01:25
No one has written him off and he’s not played for Dortmund, just the U19s and what 5 sub appearances for Hoffenheim.
He’s certainly untested and is a risk. Scottish league though is more physical and defensive so it might be a big ask of him to become a first team ready player due to lack of game time.
2
16 Jun 2026 13:32:11
To be fair, Patrick Roberts was untried, he done OK.
Mickey Moore for Rangers was untried and he done OK.
So you never know this boy may turn out to be a rough diamond if indeed he was signed.
4
16 Jun 2026 13:37:26
It will be all cheap options who haven't performed where they are. If anybody thinks we will get serious they are deluded. We won't spend half of what we bring in. So more second rate duds as usual. Transfer windows are utter torture for us. And i hope I am wrong, but i can't see any move from our board of useless, ambitionless, cheapskate cowards.
2
16 Jun 2026 17:46:49
the two mentioned don't want him. one of the passed strongest teams passed up the opportunity to sign him. but ok spend a minimum of £6.8 mill on him. who called osmand the messiah? your slagging a Celtic player who we never spent £6.8 million plus add ons for and standing up for on we've supposedly only asked about. strange.
1
17 Jun 2026 06:31:52
Why not go and sign Just whis tried and tested and scored a few against us we'll regret not going for this boy.
2
17 Jun 2026 20:13:02
£6.8m is a release clause. It is literally what it says on the tin. The club could sell him for less. Nah you’ve twisted my point. I never said a bad word about a Celtic player. I’m just highlighting the fact that our fan base can judge players way too early.
Starfelt was ran out the club because he made a couple bad passes but is arguably the best defender we’ve had since VVD.
1
17 Jun 2026 22:18:39
I miss Starfelt, I always felt CCV played him into trouble.
Wrong player got sold in my opinion although he did want to move on.
{Ed007's Note - It's still very early in the window - teams/targets/priorities will change - but I've spent the last couple of days trying to find out as much as I can: