{"id":767117,"date":"2026-02-16T00:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/767117\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T00:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:04:13","slug":"celtic-star-saracchi-dubbed-very-good-as-permanent-deal-urged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/767117\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Star Saracchi Dubbed &#8216;Very Good&#8217; As Permanent Deal Urged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"> Ian MacNicol\/Getty Images <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"single-quote\" style=\"display: block; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin: 30px 0px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;\">Former top-flight star Tam McManus has been left \u2018really impressed\u2019 by <a style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/celtic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Celtic<\/a>\u2018s loan signing Marcelo Saracchi and has urged the Hoops to sign him up for the long-term.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Saracchi is currently on loan at Celtic, having joined the Bhoys from Argentine giants Boca Juniors.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though he has spent some time on the sidelines with injury, Saracchi has been able to make an impression at Celtic Park.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In his first match back, against Livingston on Wednesday, Saracchi found his debut goal for the Scottish champions, contributing towards the 2-1 win.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was dropped to the bench for Sunday\u2019s 3-2 win at Kilmarnock, but was introduced with 12 minutes left, replacing Kieran Tierney.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McManus though was impressed with what he saw from the Uruguayan in the game against Livi.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Celtic_Martin_ONeill3_620_ofg.webp.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he [Saracchi] is very good. I have been really impressed with him\u201d, McManus said on <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PjYICPlmA1U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PLZ Soccer<\/a>, when asked about the Boca Juniors man (24.54).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe came in and scored a great goal the other night, played really well. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe kept Kieran [Tierney] on the bench.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<tr>\nClub<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Danubio<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">River Plate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">RB Leipzig<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Galatasaray<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Levante<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Boca Juniors<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #dddddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Celtic<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #dddddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>Clubs Marcelo Saracchi has played for<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McManus went on to urge the Scottish champions to take steps to tie Saracchi down with a long-term contract after his current spell at Celtic Park ends.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think if you are Celtic you are looking at him and you are going \u2018we want to sign him long-term\u2019 because I think he is a really good signing.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Celtic_Martin_ONeill2_620_ofg.webp.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Saracchi will be aiming to dislodge Tierney and return to the starting lineup for Celtic\u2019s next clash, which comes in the Europa League against Stuttgart on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With Martin O\u2019Neill is currently working wonders by keeping Celtic in the Scottish Premiership title race, questions remain over who will be in charge next term.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One former top flight star has insisted that Motherwell boss Jens Berthel Askou <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2026\/02\/12\/boss-should-be-top-of-celtics-list-believes-ex-attacker\/706204\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">should be at the top of Celtic\u2019s wanted list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Dane is winning plaudits for his work at Fir Park and has Motherwell sitting fourth in the Scottish Premiership standings.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ian MacNicol\/Getty Images \u00a0 Former top-flight star Tam McManus has been left \u2018really impressed\u2019 by Celtic\u2018s loan signing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,132277,79,140481,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-767117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-marcelo-saracchi","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tam-mcmanus","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116077387598713953","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767117","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=767117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}