In the most predictable post transfer window story Celtic are planning to revive their interest in Gvidas Gineitis.
That is the EXCLUSIVE news from Michael Gannon of the Daily Record.
Rather than ask why Celtic were led a merry dance over the Torino midfielder Gannon goes for the easy excuse about another massive failure from Celtic.
While feeding their pet messengers exciting transfer tales it was business as usual for Celtic.
Michael Nicholson and Chris McKay delivered a transfer surplus of around £20m while taking a decent sized chunk off the wage bill.
This week they will be high-fiving and whooping it up in the Celtic boardroom over exceeding the targets set by their distant master.
Celtic’s media partners have played a key role in the cunning plan.
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE THEIR HAVING A LAUGH
Reinforced over a few late night sessions in Albufeira as the gullible filled their notebooks with banal quotes but not a word from Callum McGregor or Arne Engels.
The Daily Record were so committed to the Albufeira Project that Ryan McDonald joined Gannon in the Algarve to drip feed the good news to Celtic fans.
As a bonus the lads returned with a detailed breakdown on the wages structure at Bursanspor just before Kelchi Iheanacho joined the Turkish club.
Lets give then Gineitis was Plan A. How about adding in Ermin Mahmic and Niko Sigur?
Nicholson and Chris McKay would be lucky to pick those three players out in a five man ID parade.
Celtic had no intention of a net spend of creating a Champions League squad.
Those three names were a useful distraction.
Had Celtic reached the Champions League their greedy clubs would have priced them out of a dream move to Celtic.
Fail to reach the Champions League and the ‘target’ pulled out of a move to Glasgow.
Followed up quickly with the legacy publishers favourite fall back- SET TO REVIVE THEIR INTEREST.
An old favourite, tried and tested.
CELTIC AND THEIR FAVOURITE MESSENGERS
Gannon rarely fails to oblige with the Record reporting:
Celtic could go back in for Gvidas Gineitis in January after failing to nail down a deal for the Torino powerhouse.
They COULD also go in for Enzo Fernandez, Morgan Rogers and Elliot Anderson.
Record Sport understands the Hoops made another deadline day attempt to land the Lithuanian midfielder despite missing the Wednesday cut-off point to register for the Europa League.
That classic phrase- Record Sport understands…
Celts were prepared to slap down an offer worth up to £9m – but Torino chiefs refused to budge from the valuation of closer to £13m.
Why not bid the asking price or switch to Plan B identified by your sophisticated scouting network?
And the Italian outfit have been left stewing having drafted in replacements in anticipation of a sale with Rolando Mandragora arriving from Fiorentina and Daniel Braganca moving from Sporting Lisbon.
Celtic will keep tabs on the 22-year-old and are expected to return after the turn of the year.
Keeping tabs, that classic.
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‘Fans calling for his head should be embarrassed!’ ?
Celtic fans have their say on manager Wilfried Nancy following the 3-0 defeat to Roma ??
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— Daily Record Sport (@Record_Sport) December 12, 2025
On Wednesday night Gannon told Record readers that Martin O’Neill legged it from the post match Aberdeen media conference to complete the transfer of Gineitis.
Long before the vans left Oldham to drive north with their copies of the Daily Record the Gineitis deal was dead.
Celtic fans have long seen through the delusions of their board.
Nicholson is the Temu version of his mentor Peter Lawwell.
While Dave Murray dished out succulent lamb to his favourites these days custards cremes or digestives are enough to keep the modern messenger sweet.
On 14 November 2025 Gannon broke the EXCLUSIVE news that Celtic were in advanced talks to appoint Wilfried Nancy.
He then spent a month profiling the French dud as a cross between Jose Mourinho, Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp.
Strangely no mention was ever made of the six coaches that finished above Nancy in the 2025 MLS Eastern Conference.
Celtic plan to revive Gvidas Gineitis transfer in January as deadline day Torino talks stumble over mega feehttps://t.co/c3GKOa2ipQ pic.twitter.com/UNJOvODOak
— Daily Record Sport (@Record_Sport) September 3, 2026
Martin O’Neill races out of Celtic press conference as boss in frantic dash to beat Europa League transfer deadlinehttps://t.co/xbMh3MKoaG pic.twitter.com/64Msll01ip
— Daily Record Sport (@Record_Sport) September 2, 2026
100 million in the bank, 60th anniversary of your only European Cup win… Go all in and put a team together to do something special or make a profit from the transfer window?
Any normal club would know the best thing to do.