{"id":1019607,"date":"2026-06-11T11:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1019607\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:11:14","slug":"transfer-news-live-as-celtic-and-rangers-plus-hearts-hibs-and-aberdeen-eye-signings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1019607\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer news LIVE as Celtic and Rangers plus Hearts, Hibs and Aberdeen eye signings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Luca Stephenson has joked it would take a GoFundMe page to get him back to Dundee United on a permanent basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The Liverpool youngster has just returned from two successful loans at Tannadice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Stephenson is entering the final year of his contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">He is wanted Bolton Wanderers and has interest from other English Championship sides this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">He said: \u201cIt might need a GoFundMe to get me back there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The 22-year-old has insisted that if he doesn\u2019t get a move in the coming weeks, he\u2019ll aim to be on Liverpool\u2019s pre-season tour to America in August under new boss Andoni Iraola.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">He admitted: \u201cIf I\u2019m around, I\u2019ll be looking to get on that pre-season tour (USA August). Hopefully, I can get some minutes and impress. \u201cI\u2019m at an age now where I need to be playing first-team football, like I have done for the past two seasons. \u201cIf that\u2019s at Liverpool, fantastic. \u201cIf it\u2019s not, I\u2019ll find a new adventure, like the other boys who have left and done really well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Stephenson believes he benefited greatly from his two loans at United under Goodwin. He gained their trust, which was important.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The Liverpool player, speaking to the Athletic, claimed: \u201cI\u2019ve felt at home and its credit to the environment, the manager and his staff have created.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cTrust, in football, is massive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cThe manager gave me that straight away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cThat real trust can be rare, knowing other young lads at Liverpool and their experiences on loan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cI feel I can try things and the manager won\u2019t judge you or have a go at you for it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cThe best thing about Scotland is the range of games. \u201cIt gives you Celtic and Rangers and Hearts this year playing in front of packed crowds at big stadiums.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cThen the derby against Dundee and what it means to people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luca Stephenson has joked it would take a GoFundMe page to get him back to Dundee United on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1019608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8816],"tags":[21840,6167,748,2628,7184,1102,12568,4884,47959,21843,763,1036,423,1946,37715,712,1638,10107,16,15],"class_list":["post-1019607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edinburgh","tag-aberdeen-fc","tag-arsenal-fc","tag-britain","tag-celtic-fc","tag-celtic-transfer-news","tag-edinburgh","tag-footballblog","tag-great-britain","tag-hearts-fc","tag-hibernian-fc","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-manchester-city-fc","tag-manchester-united-fc","tag-rangers-fc","tag-rangers-fc-transfer-news","tag-scotland","tag-scottish-premiership","tag-transfer-talk","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116731175858810910","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1019608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}