But the Rangers hero urged Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta to intervene before a deal can be done. Reports south of the border have stated the Scottish Premiership champions are interested in the 32-year-old.<\/p>\n
The former Liverpool and Gunners’ star has been out of contract since leaving Besiktas last summer, and could move to Parkhead outwith the window. On deadline day, Celtic<\/a> have loaned in Junior Adamu from Freiburg while knocking back a \u00a325million offer from Nottingham Forest for Arne Engles.<\/p>\n Lorient winger Joel Mvuka is on the agenda despite reports of issues with his medical,<\/a> while a centre-back is also on the shopping list before the end of the winter window. But it’s murmurs around Oxlade-Chamberlain that raised a red flag for Boyd.<\/p>\n After Sky Sports presenter Gordon Duncan flagged that Mikel Arteta had refused to rule out a switch for the midfielder, Boyd said: “I think it was interesting what was said there, Mikel Arteta might want to keep him at Arsenal. I hope he does.<\/p>\n “He is obviously getting older but you don’t lose that ability that Oxlade-Chamberlain had. If Celtic complete that deal, the Arne Engels one is even more baffling.<\/p>\n “If you have got someone who was about to come in on a free transfer, and Nottingham Forest want to pay you \u00a325million for Arne Engels<\/a> I can’t believe you wouldn’t have taken it. It’s crazy.<\/p>\n “But, there is no doubt that Oxlade-Chamberlain would be a success in Scotland. He is someone who has done it, more or less, wherever he has went.<\/p>\n Kris Boyd on Sky Sports<\/p>\n “Yes, he has had his injury problems but I think the older you get, the more you look after your body.<\/p>\n “I can’t say I done that myself, but I imagine someone of that level would.<\/p>\n “I think he would be a success at Celtic, but hopefully he stays where he is right now, training, and Mikel Arteta can get that deal over the line.”<\/p>\n It’s a fast moving Deadline Day and you can follow it all, including our countdown to the window closing, with our LIVE BLOG<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Tune in to Hotline Live<\/a> every Sunday to Thursday and have your say on the biggest issues in Scottish football and listen to Record Sport’s newest podcast, Game On<\/a>, every Friday for your sporting fix, all in bitesize chunks.<\/strong><\/p>\n You can get all the news you need on our dedicated Rangers<\/a> and Celtic<\/a> pages, and sign up to our newsletters<\/a> to make sure you never miss a beat throughout the season. We’re also on WhatsApp where we bring all the latest breaking news and transfer gossip directly to your phone. Join our Rangers community here<\/a> and our Celtic community here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Liverpool star has been without a club since leaving Besiktas last summer 21:41, 02 Feb 2026Updated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4100],"tags":[13608,6167,2628,7184,94,218810,218811,12655,178,1946,1638,79,10107,16,15],"class_list":["post-738325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-arne-engels","tag-arsenal-fc","tag-celtic-fc","tag-celtic-transfer-news","tag-football","tag-joel-mvuka","tag-junior-adamu","tag-kris-boyd","tag-nottingham-forest","tag-rangers-fc","tag-scottish-premiership","tag-sports","tag-transfer-talk","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116003698539417620","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738325","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=738325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Kris](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0_Screenshot-2026-02-02-at-213314.png\")
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