{"id":673382,"date":"2026-01-04T13:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/673382\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T13:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:54:24","slug":"celtic-close-to-signing-ivory-coast-winger-jocelin-ta-bi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/673382\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic close to signing Ivory Coast winger Jocelin Ta Bi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Ivory Coast winger is currently on loan at Hapoel Petah Tikva but belongs to Maccabi Netanya.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Hoops have shown significant interest in the young talent and have reportedly made an increased offer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Currently, Ta Bi is out of action due to an ankle injury, but scans indicate it isn&#8217;t serious and he should be back in two weeks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Despite this, reports from Israel indicate that Ta Bi&#8217;s move to Scottish football is set to be finalised soon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This will make him the second signing of much-debated manager Wilfried Nancy, who recently signed Mexican international Julian Araujo on loan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  After Hapoel Petah Tikva&#8217;s weekend win over Hapoel Kfar Saba, a club spokesman, who wished to remain unnamed, was cited in the Israeli press saying: &#8220;We have been informed by Maccabi Netanya that there has only been one official offer for Jocelin Ta Bi and it was from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/sport\/celtic?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Celtic<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We expect him to leave in the coming days.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The reported transfer fee is about \u00a32 million, of which \u00a3250,000 will go to his loan club as compensation for ending his season-long loan early.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  With Ta Bi&#8217;s impending move to Celtic, the Scottish club seems to have successfully fended off competition from Belgian side Gent.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ta Bi has made quite an impact in the Israeli league this season, with 20 appearances in which he scored two goals and provided two assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ivory Coast winger is currently on loan at Hapoel Petah Tikva but belongs to Maccabi Netanya. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-673382","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\/115837171471076252","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673382","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=673382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}