{"id":481202,"date":"2025-10-07T20:47:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T20:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/481202\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T20:47:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T20:47:18","slug":"ange-postecoglou-opens-up-on-celtic-transfer-near-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/481202\/","title":{"rendered":"Ange Postecoglou opens up on Celtic transfer near-miss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celticway.co.uk\/topics\/ange-postecoglou\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ange Postecoglou<\/a> has opened up on a transfer near-miss during his time as Celtic manager, as he prepares to come up against the player.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Australian attempted to sign Cho Gue-Sung for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celticway.co.uk\/news\/24288320.scottish-premiership-profile---everything-need-know\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scottish Premiership<\/a> champions in 2023.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  However, a move never materialised, and the attacker went on to sign for Danish side FC Midtjylland for \u00a32.6m.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Cho was on Celtic&#8217;s radar back in January 2023 after playing for South Korea at the World Cup.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Instead, the Hoops opted to sign Oh Hyeon-gyu, who has since signed for Genk in Belgium &#8211; and last week scored the winner against Rangers in the Europa League &#8211; with Cho happy to remain in the K-League at that time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  That coupled with the eventual departure of Postecoglou to Tottenham saw any potential move for Cho fall by the wayside.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The player has gone on to become a champion in Denmark with Midtjylland, although has struggled with injury over the past year until the start of this season.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Read more:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He&#8217;s set to come up against Postecoglou&#8217;s Nottingham Forest team in the Europa League tonight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I tried really hard to bring him to Celtic, but he ended up turning me down, so I wasn\u2019t happy about that,&#8221; Postecoglou told the media. &#8220;At that time he was doing really well, and you could see the qualities he had.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;His career has gone in a slightly different direction since then, but I still know him really well, because we studied him closely in the scouting department when we wanted to sign him.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ange Postecoglou has opened up on a transfer near-miss during his time as Celtic manager, as he prepares&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-481202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115334849700479378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481202","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=481202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}