Q: How do you see those players, how would you review these players?
Martin O’Neill: “The first thing, we have Kelechi Iheanacho, who’s a very fine player and can hold the ball up I think. He’s played very, very little, but I think he can make an impact, he might not last the games and things like this. So we definitely needed someone strong in there, I think Adamu can do that. I think there’s a little bit of pace with the young lad from Lorient, Mvuka. I think that it’ll give us a couple of options as much as anything else.
“The players, I think they deserve it. I think their efforts have been really, really big and I think you saw today for the number of games there’s just no respite for us and as a consequence players wouldn’t naturally feel tired. So this will help supplement the squad as I said, and there might be, hopefully, there’s a possibility of other things happening between now and tomorrow at 11 o’clock.”
Arne Engels of Celtic vies with Leon McCann of Falkirk during the Scottish Premiership match between Celtic and Falkirk at Celtic Park on February 01, 2026. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
Q: There have been reports of interest in Arne Engels from your former club Nottingham Forest, is he certainly a player you want to keep here?
Martin O’Neill: “Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. I didn’t hear that but I would, yeah, no question about it. There are one or two of the lads here who have not played much football and I can understand frustrations of that there.
“I know that and if we can get some people in, I don’t mind some players maybe going on loan or something I guess, who haven’t played and desperately want to play and it’s alright having a cause here like anything else. If you’re not playing there’s a natural frustration for it so we’ll see what develops, but obviously I’m not talking about Arne, I’m just talking in general but if nothing does develop over the next 24 hours then I really would rather keep the players because we will need them. They might not see that at this minute, but if we stay in competitions, if we do, and that’s a big if, then we will need them.”
Your an auld eejit the green brigade ain’t dafties just because they are young you dismiss them as dafties you obviously didn’t support Celtic before you were sixty.You and fans like you are the reason we’ve got such a shit board grow up these 20 whatever are all as clued up as you they just have the passion still to do something about it.
The Green Brigade bring plenty of colour , humour song and encouragement to our Celtic team . Nobody can dispute that . However despite been the life & soul of our supporters they can’t continue to operate outside the law. . In the past they frequently put on displays that they knew would cause the club fines by UEFA . They made it easy fot the UEFA observer, very often ex Linfield bigot to report us & cause a fine . In recent seasons especially since the club created a standing area & allocated part of it to GB there has been serious overcrowding in GB standing area section. This is bought about at least in part by GB members allowing others to re use their passes . GB are fully aware that Celtic are never treated leniently like the h.ns , and both Glasgow City Council & UEFA could close or partially close stadium because of this . If fans obtained serious injury because of overcrowding + flare, then Celtic in’s wouldn’t cover and club could be out millions .
We need GB & club to sit down together & hammer out a deal , that will settle this permanently