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Scotsman
11-07-2025
- Sport
- Scotsman
Another Celtic exit imminent as £4m man 'seals move to Germany'
Defender set to join Hannover on loan for upcoming season Sign up to our Football newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Celtic defender Maik Nawrocki has clinched a loan deal to German side Hannover 96, according to reports. German media sources are claiming that the Bundesliga 2 outfit will take Nawrocki on loan for the 2025/26 season and have an option to buy should the Pole's spell in Lower Saxony be a success. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Contracted to Celtic until the summer of 2028, Nawrocki has struggled to break into the first-team under current manager Brendan Rodgers during his two years at the club. He has fallen behind Cameron Carter-Vickers, Auston Trusty and Liam Scales in the pecking order and appears to have a limited future in Glasgow. Maik Nawrocki is poised to depart Celtic on loan. | SNS Group Celtic paid nearly £4million to Legia Warsaw back in the summer of 2023 for the 24-year-old centre-half, who has been capped by Poland at under-21 level. However, the Parkhead hierarchy appear content to cut their losses and let Nawrocki move on. Respected German journalist Florian Plettenberg of Sky Sports wrote on X: '🚨EXCL | Maik Nawrocki to Hannover 96 is a done deal! The 24 y/o centre-back from Celtic joins Hannover on loan with an option to buy. Medical completed. Last paperwork being finalised. Announcement soon.' The Pole is not expected to be the only departure from Parkhead this weekend, with in-demand forward Nicolas Kuhn set to join Serie A side Como. The Italians are understood to have agreed a fee in the region of £16.5m for the German, who joined Celtic 18 months ago from Rapid Vienna for just £3m. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Celtic have prepared for the imminent departures of Kuhn and Nawrocki by bringing in Swedish forward Benjamin Nygren from FC Nordsjaelland, while Japanese defender Hayato Inamura is poised to complete his move from Albirex Niigata in the coming days.
Yahoo
07-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Ron-Robert Zieler returns home to FC Köln
Veteran German keeper Ron-Robert Zieler's much discussed return to FC Köln was officially confirmed on Monday evening. The 36-year-old returns to his hometown club, at which he spent six years training with the youth ranks before moving to the Manchester United academy in 2005, on a €200,000 transfer. Zieler actually spent one year on loan in the cathedral city during the 2020/21 Bundesliga campaign, at that time backing up Timo Horn. He made one league relief appearance that year. Zieler's latest return to the Domstädter once again comes under interesting circumstances. Hannover 96 loaned Zieler out to Köln five years ago after a dust-up with then H96 head coach Kenan Koçak and controversial club chairmen Martin Kind led to him losing his starting position. Zieler was Hannover's regular number one during the 2019/20 season, then regained his starting status with the Lower Saxons the year after returning from the atypical loan spell. Advertisement Zieler again joins Köln expected to be the back-up keeper behind number one Marvin Schwäbe. In this case, Zieler forfeited a chance to be a regular 2. Bundesliga starter in order to warm the bench. Zieler started all 34 of Hannover's German second division league fixtures last season and even managed to keep 11 clean sheets. Unless Schwäbe gets hurt or reconsiders an offer to join America's MLS, Zieler won't be working between the sticks. Zieler offered up some explanation of his choice in a Köln-released statement. As is often the case with keepers of a certain age, the promise of integration into the coaching ranks naturally played a role. Veteran Borussia Mönchengladbach keeper Tobias Sippel (37) recently received specific assurances from his Bundesliga club. Zieler spoke more in generalities. 'Until [Köln sporting director] Thomas Kessler called me, I hadn't actually thought about a move,' Zieler said. 'I had open discussions with both sides. From the outset, I felt that the club [Köln] held me in very high regard and offered me clear prospects for the time after my active career, That was extremely important to me. It was such that I decided for my hometown club.' GGFN | Peter Weis
Yahoo
07-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
🚨 Homecoming: Köln sign German World Cup winner
Lukas Podolski and Ron-Robert Zieler not only won the 2014 World Cup together. Both were also trained at 1. FC Köln and are deeply rooted in the city. One of the two lost sons is now returning to the club. Zieler, most recently a long-time goalkeeper for Hannover 96, will be playing in the cathedral city again in the future. Advertisement Between 1999 and 2005, the keeper was trained by the Billy Goats. In the 2020/21 season, he already returned to his hometown on loan. Today, the 36-year-old signed a two-year contract with the FC and is expected to compete with Marvin Schwäbe for the starting position in goal. This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here. 📸 Christof Koepsel - 2014 Getty Images
The National
07-07-2025
- Sport
- The National
Rabbi Matondo Rangers absence explained after loan return
The winger is back at the Ibrox club after spending time out on loan at Hannover 96 in Germany's second tier last season. However, he was conspicuous by his absence for the friendly against Club Brugge yesterday, a 2-2 draw after the Belgians opened up a two goal lead in the first half but Gers came back through Mohamed Diomande and Findlay Curtis. Matondo's absence left fans wondering but Rangers Review has now confirmed he had surgery on a knee problem during the break and is expected back in August. The Welsh winger, 24, has had consistent injury troubles during his time at Ibrox and missed four months of the 2024/25 campaign due to a hamstring issue. Another player missing from the squad against Brugge was defender Clinton Nsiala and manager Russell Martin has confirmed he is likely to go out on loan. He said: "Clinton... we signed Emmanuel, and I think Clinton's at a point in his at his age and his career, he needs to play all the time and every week. "He's trained really, really well. But I think it's, rather playing some part of the squad, a bit like last season, he's at a point now where he needs to go and play football and he's the best way to learn. "We've had a really good conversation, honest conversation. And he's trained really well. I think it was an area we wanted to strengthen [centre-back] anyway and we will continue to strengthen. "So, to let [Clinton] know the situation really early is probably the best for him to find the best opportunity to play football."
BBC News
06-07-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Where do Celtic stand a month out from season start?
Celtic continue to dominate Scottish football, but even the league champions face challenges this only did an otherwise successful, two trophy season end in disappointment, losing to Aberdeen in Scottish Cup final, but there are the inevitable comings and goings in the transfer is early days yet, of course, but is Brendan Rodgers' squad stronger or weaker at this stage of the summer transfer window and a month before the start to their competitive season? Celtic need Taylor-made replacement In goal, Celtic have had almost like-for-like change, with long-time back-up Scott Bain heading to promoted Falkirk in search of first-team starts and the younger Ross Doohan, who had been in a similar position with Aberdeen, returning to the Glasgow club to effectively be a number three, behind Kasper Schmeichel and Viljami central defence, Maik Nawrocki has joined German second-tier side Hannover 96 on loan with an option to buy while Hayato Inamura has been bought from J-League relegation candidates Albirex even though the Polish 24-year-old made all of five appearances last season, it appears that the Japanese player, one year younger, will not be a straight replacement considering Rodgers is thinking of sending him straight out on is at left-back, though, where the Celtic face a more taxing transfer return of Kieran Tierney at the end of his Arsenal contract was generally welcomed as a marquee signing that will strengthen the starting with fellow Scotland international Greg Taylor rejecting a new deal and joining PAOK in Greece while experienced back-up Jeffrey Schlupp returned to Crystal Palace at the end of his loan, it leaves Celtic with "a tough sell" for any potential replacement, according to former Falkirk striker Rory Loy."If you are going to go out and get a really established left-back who's coming in, the first thing you do, you look at their squad and you see Kieran Tierney there," he told BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound."It is a hard thing to say to a left-back that you're coming in as second choice."Loy believes an older player, like Schlupp, or young player happy to "come in for a few games" may be the markets Celtic search for a Taylor Scotland midfielder Leanne Crichton, though, believes that Tierney's history of injuries - "he rarely finishes games" he does play - mean any back-up "will play a considerable amount of time". Kuhn sale 'a pretty fair deal' With winger Jota absent through injury until the near the end of the year, Celtic needed an immediate replacement on the wing and got it early on with the purchase from Danish club Nordsjaelland of Benjamin 23-year-old recent Sweden cap has the potential to be just as exciting as the sidelined Portuguese but will have to search for yet another wide man should Nicolas Kuhn complete his expected transfer to ambitious Serie A upstarts suggested that it would be "great business all round" should the 25-year-old be sold for what will reportedly be five times the £3m Celtic paid Rapid Vienna for the German in January last will, though, need to find someone of a calibre to match Kuhn's 21 goals in 41 starts and 10 substitute appearances last season."He's almost blown hot and cold at points and, towards the end of the season, looked like a player that was ready to go," Crichton suggested. "I just feel his performance levels dipped."For whatever reason, it maybe just doesn't feel like that's the long-term project for him and Celtic. I don't think Brendan Rodgers is the type of manager that would wait about and try to encourage you to stay at Celtic and apply yourself."So, for both parties, it looks like a pretty fair deal. He is not irreplaceable."Former Rangers assistant Billy Dodds suggested "it is the right time to sell - it is a no-brainer, it's time to go" and fellow former Ibrox striker Loy concurred. "Managers want players they can trust," he said. "There was a wee five-month spell there where you could trust Nicolas Kuhn, but in the last three months of the season, he was getting substituted a lot around the 60-minute mark." 'Desperate to get Maeda back wide' While West Ham United raided Celtic Park for prospect Daniel Cummings, the Scottish champions returned the favour by taking fellow 19-year-old striker Callum Osmand from Kenny, meanwhile, will be hoping to persuade Rodgers that he is ready for more first-team action after the 22-year-old made some fleeting appearances at the end of last season after impressing for Shamrock Rovers in the Conference with the Celtic manager admitting he is considering another loan for the Irishman, he will be looking elsewhere for the delayed replacement for Kyogo Furuhashi, who left in January for Rennes but this weekend joined Birmingham believes losing the Scottish Cup final was proof that Celtic lacked some "firepower" despite one of Kyogo's Japan team-mates having proved he can be effective up front."Daizen Maeda does a real good job through the middle - Adam Idah is there as well," she said. "But Celtic are a team that scores goals from all over the pitch."Dodds suggested: "Surely they are going to have to add a striker. They are desperate to get Maeda back out wide."They can use him as an emergency striker, scores a lot of goals, but surely they are wanting somebody of a type to give competition to Idah." 'Take their time and usually get it right' Loy believes, looking at Celtic's early moves in the transfer market, "quite possibly they are slightly weaker" but points out they normally wait until close to the end of the transfer window."I think they paid over the odds getting Idah in the door recently, so it's not always worked in their favour, waiting that long," he said."But I don't think there will be any panic or rush from Celtic. If you look at Kyogo and Kuhn, that's another £25m to add to all the other transfers."Roy thinks bigger signings might hinge on Celtic winning their Champions League play-off."Celtic fans need to be a bit more patient than other clubs, but they are in a very good position," he pointed out that "Celtic don't panic" despite supporters urging them to dip into the money they have in the bank. "They take their time and usually get it right," he who finished the season as Rangers' assistant head coach, had suggested that only 30% of the squad he and Barry Ferguson were right for the club."Celtic have 80% of their squad right and 20% wrong," he thought. "They have got it right, so they don't have to rush, but the Celtic fans, having lost to Aberdeen, won't accept another hiccup."Are they good enough just now to compete with the squad they've got? "Absolutely, but they have to add a bit more firepower," Crichton concluded.
