{"id":18013,"date":"2026-02-02T11:28:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=18013"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:28:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:28:32","slug":"celtic-reject-17m-bid-from-nottingham-forest-for-arne-engels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=18013","title":{"rendered":"Celtic reject \u00a317m bid from Nottingham Forest for Arne Engels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Celtic have rejected a bid of about \u00a317m from Nottingham Forest for Belgium midfielder Arne Engels.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forest failed with an initial \u00a314m offer for the 22-year-old and then had a second bid of \u00a317m also turned down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/cx2l4w2718no\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Engels joined Celtic<\/a> for \u00a311m from German club Augsburg in August 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has played 89 times in all competitions for the Glasgow club and helped them win the Scottish Premiership and League Cup last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Honestly, I am telling you, I didn&#8217;t know anything about it,&#8221; said interim manager Martin O&#8217;Neill when asked about Forest&#8217;s bid following Celtic&#8217;s 2-0 win over Falkirk on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If they have, then they must have done it during the game. And I would want it rebuffed, unless it was \u00a3100m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Then I think the board would step in there. No, absolutely, I would rather keep him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both Celtic, who O&#8217;Neill says are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c0mk3r70zzko\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">close to making two signings,<\/a> and Forest are in the Europa League play-offs that take place this month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s side are second in the Premiership, six points behind leaders Heart of Midlothian, while Forest are 17th in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Celtic #reject #17m #bid #Nottingham #Forest #Arne #Engels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celtic have rejected a bid of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}