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Whilst last season might have ended wonderfully for Celtic with the team being crowned Premiership champions, the season didn’t start that way. As most Hoops fans will remember, the season started Premiership started poorly for Ange Postecoglou’s side as Celtic lost 2-1 to Hearts at Tynecastle, despite Anthony Ralston showing a sign of the season he would have with a superb goal. Thankfully the season ended up being a triumph for the Hoops, but there was a lot of concern at the start of last season, and suffering a defeat in the opening game of the season didn’t help.

After a lot of speculation, Celtic defender Liam Scales completed a season long loan deal to Aberdeen. The player has been a left-back in his time at Celtic Park, but Aberdeen boss Jim Goodwin has indicated that Scales will play as a centre-back in his one year at Pittodrie. Intriguingly, the Scales deal does not contain an option to buy, and as it stands, Scales will return to Celtic in 2023, and it will be interesting to see just how the former Shamrock Rovers talent performs whilst on loan.

Celtic defender Josip Juranovic played his first match since mid-April tonight, starting for Croatia in their UEFA Nations League clash at home to Austria. Juranovic went off injured with a hamstring problem in the Scottish Cup semi-final against Rangers and missed Celtic’s title run-in, absent for all five matches after the Scottish Premiership split. However, he was given the all-clear to return to his homeland and feature for Croatia in their run of three matches this month.

Now that Rangers have failed to win the Europa League, it’s time for Giovanni van Bronckhorst to own up to his failings this year. Back at the start of the season, losing the league was unthinkable. A total disaster given the automatic UCL spot that was at stake. Almost impossible too given how big a rebuild Celtic had.

Scottish giants Celtic will reportedly have to pay a significant portionof their summer's transfer budget to sign Jota from Benfica on a permanent deal. Celtic signed Jota on loan from Portuguese giants Benficaat the start of the season. The Portuguese attacker signed a season-long loan deal at Celtic last summer.

Scottish giants Celtic have reportedly been beaten to the signing of young Irish defender Alex Murphy. This is according to the report from the stables of RTE Sport which stated that Newcastle United have beaten Celtic and a host of other clubs to the signing of the Galway United star. It was reported that Celtic have missed out on the player to Premier League outfit Newcastle United. In addition to Newcastle United and Celtic, Murphy has also be linked with Premier League side Brighton & Hove Albion and Italian Serie A outfit Torino.

Premier League heavyweights Arsenal are reportedly keen on signing Lyon striker Moussa Dembele this summer. This is according to the report from the stables of media outlet Foot Mercato. It was revealed that the Gunners can sign the former Celtic player for £25m in the summer since he would have one year left on his current deal at French club Lyon.

Former Everton star James Rodriguez has revealed that before leaving the Merseyside outfit, he received different proposals from several clubs. He mentioned Celtic as one of the sides that approached him for a possible transfer, before adding that he wanted something different from what the Scottish Premiership side were offering him and that was the reason that he had to turn his back on their offer.

Celtic finished third in Group G of the Europa League to qualify to the Europa Conference League. The Conference League which is the third tier of UEFA competition grouping started officially with the 2021/2022 season. Celtic was a point behind Real Betis that finished second in a group that saw Bayer Leverkusen finish first.

Celtic midfielder Ewan Henderson has emerged as a transfer target for fellow Scottish Premiership side Hibernian after falling down the pecking order under new manager Ange Postecoglou. The arrival of the Japanese trio of Yosuke Ideguchi, Reo Hatate and Daizen Maeda has pushed Hibs target Henderson down the midfield pecking order at Celtic.