Roger Hannah has great news for Celtic fans with the hoops ‘stepping up their interest’ in Haissem Hassan.
The bang average winger hit the best form of his career playing for Egypt at the World Cup Finals.
Real Oviedo are desperate to cash in on that, looking for a club to fall for the magic of the World Cup circus.
During Thursday news that Michael Nicholson couldn’t deal with football agents went viral.
On Friday it was confirmed that Kelechi Iheanacho and Marcelo Saracchi wouldn’t be back at Celtic.
MARTIN O’NEILL PULLED FROM MEDIA ACTIVITY
Such was Celtic’s concern that Martin O’Neill was withdrawn from media duties. Vil Sinisalo was put up for Friday’s media conference, an almost pointless exercise.
The Middlesbrough match is the first game at Celtic Park since the title decider against Hearts.
The team went on to clinch the double. An iconic manager signed up as permanent boss but can’t be trusted to preview his latest homecoming.
Silence seems to be the Celtic strategy to confront any problem.
Later on the deflection exercise took shape with their favoured messengers- legacy media outlets.
True to form on Friday night The Sun reporter delivered good news with a classic squirrel on behalf of the Celtic board.
CELTIC are ready to step up their interest in Egypt’s World Cup winger Haissem Hassan.
Step up interest- WOW!
SunSport understands the Real Oviedo star is now a priority target for the Hoops.
SunSport understands…
Later Hannah adds:
But Hassan, who played in Egypt’s last-16 defeat toArgentinathis month, is now in the sights of the Premiership champions.
In the sights, step up interest. Classic transfer terminology that adds up to nothing.
He has a €12m release clause, but it’s understood Celts could get him for a significantly lower fee.
All players in Spain have a ridiculous release clause. It is meaningless.
Marseille are also keen on the wide man, who has one year left on his deal in Spain.
And there we go with the excuse when the move falls through.
How on earth will Nicholson cope with agents from Egypt and Spain against French interest?.
Last September Hannah was selected to step up the trashing of Brendan Rodgers.
It wasn’t too difficult to join the dots to the instigator of the story:
CELTIC insiders believe boss Brendan Rodgers wants out of Parkhead after a split over summer signings.
SunSport understands senior figures at the club are concerned he’s trying to “engineer his exit”.
Truth is that the Celtic board were trying to engineer the exit of Rodgers. Senior figures got their wish.
CELTIC LOST CONTOL OF THEIR MANAGED DECLINE
They started by selling Kyogo Furuhashi in January 2025 with Shin Yamada the suggested replacement.
In the summer of 2025 Nicolas Kuhn and Adam Idah were sold with Yamada the enforced replacement.
On October 27 Rodgers resigned.
Celtic appointed Wilfried Nancy as his replacement. The hopeless Frenchman lasted 33 days before being sacked.
The World Cup was a lottery win for Hassan and Real Ovieda.
Some mug clubs will be drawn in to a player that they hadn’t heard of before the World Cup got underway.
They will fork out over the odds for a winger that has missed out on pre-season training and moving to a new country.
The agents issue will be Nicholson’s cop out.
Perhaps on transfer deadline day Celtic will make a move for Hassan.
Last season after losing out to Kairat Almaty in a Champions League Play Off Nicholson splashed out £10m on Michel-Ange Balikwisha and Sebastian Tounekti.
