Celtic midfielder Benjamin Nygren is one of three Sweden players who have been told to isolate because of sickness as the national team prepares for Friday’s meeting with Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Former Celtic goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel has said that, after retiring from football, he has become effectively a taxi driver for his children, though he still has aspirations to move into management in the future.
Marcelo Saracchi, the left-back now with Houston Dynamo, has admitted he wanted to return to Celtic from Boca Juniors this summer. While manager Martin O’Neill wanted him, Saracchi said it did not feel like the club as a whole did.
Dundee head coach Steven Pressley has admitted the club’s crippling injury crisis has forced them to look at the free agent market. A trialist is expected to play for Dundee in Thursday’s bounce game against Hearts after Jack Moorhouse became the latest player to suffer an ACL injury. Hearts could include defender Malachi Fagan-Walcott and midfielders Oisin McEntee and Finlay Pollock in that bounce game as they work their way back from injury.
Elsewhere in Scottish football, former Heart of Midlothian coach Darren Murray is launching a new player development programme aimed at changing Scottish football. Denmark winger Andreas Skov Olsen believes he struggled on loan at Rangers last season because Scottish football was not the right match for him. Scotland youth international Dylan Reid, 21, has joined Scottish Championship club Arbroath for the rest of the season, a little more than two years after joining Crystal Palace from St Mirren.