{"id":393485,"date":"2025-09-03T02:55:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T02:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/393485\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T02:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T02:55:16","slug":"celtic-approach-patrick-bamford-over-possible-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/393485\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic approach Patrick Bamford over possible transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  This comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/adam-idah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adam Idah<\/a>&#8216;s departure to Swansea and failed attempts to sign Kasper Dolberg and Kelechi Iheanacho.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/europa-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Europa League<\/a> squad deadline set for 11pm, the Scottish champions are eager to bolster their attacking options.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Bamford, who recently ended his seven-year stint at Leeds by mutual consent, has been contacted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/sport\/celtic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Celtic<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 31-year-old striker helped Leeds to two Championship titles, scoring 60 goals in 205 appearances.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  However, last season saw him restricted to 17 Championship appearances without a single start.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Leeds manager Daniel Farke confirmed last month that Bamford had no future at the club.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Bamford, who earned his sole England cap in September 2021, has also been linked with a move to Wrexham.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It is yet to be seen if a deal with Celtic can be completed before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/europa-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Europa League<\/a> deadline.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Celtic&#8217;s pursuit of Bamford comes after they missed out on signing David Fofana, who chose a move to Charlton instead.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Although the club secured winger Sebastian Tounekti in a \u00a35million deal from Hammarby, they pulled the plug on a loan move for Burnley\u2019s Manuel Benson after Birmingham City ended their interest in winger Yang Hyun-jun.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Despite the uncertainty surrounding a potential deal with Bamford, Celtic are determined to strengthen their squad for the upcoming Europa League campaign.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Restricted to free agents and out of contract forwards, Celtic are also interested in Nigerian international Emmanuel Dennis.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 27-year-old left Nottingham Forest by mutual consent at the end of the winger after three years at the City Ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This comes after Adam Idah&#8216;s departure to Swansea and failed attempts to sign Kasper Dolberg and Kelechi Iheanacho.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-393485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115138115909496762","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393485","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=393485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}