David Friel
Sports Content Editor at The Scottish Sun
Sports content editor for The Scottish Sun @scotsunsport. Saturdays @ClydeSSB. Man of many nicknames.
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6 days ago |
thescottishsun.co.uk | David Friel |Bill Leckie
CYRIEL DESSERS pulled his shirt up over his face and shook his head in disbelief. Pity it wasn’t the one he’d been wearing at the start of the night — because then we could have looked through the hole in the front to see whether he was laughing or crying. There were 20 minutes to go and the big striker had just given a Bilbao defender the kind of nudge in the back that wouldn’t have knocked a passing midge off its flightpath.
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3 weeks ago |
thescottishsun.co.uk | David Friel
ANDREAS HINKEL knew Arne Engels was special when he saw him hold his own in a dead-ball battle with Kevin De Bruyne. Now the ex-Celtic star has tipped the club’s £11million record signing to show his true quality in the coming years. Hinkel was Belgium’s assistant coach when Engels was first called up to the senior squad last year. Then at Augsburg in the Bundesliga, the midfielder narrowly missed out on a place in Belgium’s Euro 2024 squad.
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3 weeks ago |
thescottishsun.co.uk | David Friel
ExclusiveTwo other Belgian-based players are also impressing European scoutsCELTIC ran a fresh check on £5million winger Michel-Ange Balikwisha as they ramp up their summer transfer plans. SunSport understands Hoops scouts watched Royal Antwerp’s 5-1 defeat to Union Saint-Gilloise on Saturday night. Balikwisha, 23, has been a long-time target for Brendan Rodgers but injury ended the chance of a January move to Parkhead.
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4 weeks ago |
thescottishsun.co.uk | David Friel
CELTIC are set to offer Daizen Maeda a new contract amid growing interest in the striker. The in-form Japanese star’s current deal runs out in the summer of 2027. But SunSport understands the Hoops are keen to tie him down on an extended contract with improved terms. Maeda, 27, has netted 28 goals already this season, and is expected to be crowned Scotland’s Player of the Year.
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4 weeks ago |
thescottishsun.co.uk | David Friel
KALLE VASSE had no fears over giving Viljami Sinisalo a senior debut for FC Espoo aged just 15. Eight years on, the Finnish coach reckons the Celtic keeper will take his Premiership bow against Hearts in his stride. Sinisalo, 23, is set to get his big chance to shine, after Hoops No 1 Kasper Schmeichel picked up an injury on Denmark duty. Vasse was FC Espoo gaffer when he plucked Sinisalo out of the youth team to face BK-46 in a Third Division match.
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