Celtic keep Gary Hooper as Kevin Doyle loan bid fails

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Wolves striker Kevin Doyle

Celtic have had a transfer deadline day bid to sign Wolves striker Kevin Doyle on loan turned down.

Wolves manager Dean Saunders confirmed that a bid to sign the player until the end of the season was rejected.

Trelleborgs keeper Viktor Noring was pictured arriving at Celtic Park for talks but the Scottish club have not confirmed whether a deal has been done.

Gary Hooper looks likely to stay with Neil Lennon's side after Norwich City were unsuccessful with several bids.

Viktor Noring
Noring arrived in Glasgow for talks at Celtic

One rejected bid for the striker is believed to have taken place on transfer deadline day.

The 25-year-old has scored 73 goals since arriving in Glasgow in 2010 and his tally so far this season stands at 22.

Initial offers of under £6m fell short of Celtic's valuation of the former Scunthorpe United player.

And manager Neil Lennon was adamant he did not want to lose Hooper.

Speaking on Twitter, Lennon denied reports that a late fifth bid had been received and re-iterated his stance that Hooper was "NOT for sale".

And Norwich chief executive David McNally tweeted that his club did not expect "any further business" a few hours after

Noring, 21, has one been capped once for Sweden and has been with Trelleborgs since 2009, having a loan spell at Malmo last year.

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  • Make that 23 ID's !

    CLOWNSHOES

  • Is that why QoS hosed you at Greyskull ?

    You must have had your minds on the mighty Montrose !

  • Gee it a rest muppet

    Mirrors don't talk back.......unless they are in the hovel you're sitting in

  • @12

    Point me in the direction of any significant bids anywhere yesterday ?

    Samba, Zaha, Bechio & BeckHUM to name a few unmentionables ?

    Sturridge subbed in the 65th minute.

    Moot point methinks ?

  • And therein lies the beauty of the deception ?

    Me is cleverer than thee aight !

    Say HI to Joe Banana

  • Doyle is a good player, he'd be a great Celtic player. Keeping Hooper was more important tho. Glad he stayed, have really enjoyed Celtic's Champion's League games and want to see more goals from him against Juve :-)

  • Doyle ? Even the Greek is better than him.

    There was no plane waiting for Hooper at Glasgow airport, it was a plane belonging to a golfer who is part of the PR brigade for the Ryder Cup.

    As usual, the crud Scottish red tops make rubbish up.

  • Can we also stop with this nonsense that we're huge 'cus we're in the last 16. Every year one of the "wee" clubs ('cus in European terms we are) gets through. Are Basel? How about Copenhagen or Olympiakos?

  • #22 Western There's a guy who has played for Liechtenstein over 86 times, should we sign him? Realistically it should be about how good you are and nothing else.

  • Doyle? Really? Why would we want to sign him (besides the fact that he's Irish)? Apart from running about daft would he give us as a striker...certainly NOT goals.

  • #32 Stevie Bhoy Lets not get carried away, sure we haven't sold anyone but then again we only got a bid in for Hooper (from one club) and NO ONE else. It's not hard to keep players when no one is trying to buy them.

  • Wow, some of the comments on here, from BOTH sides of the "Great Divide" are absolutely insane...But then it never changes.

  • @14 this would be the Messi who scored a consolation goal against us at Celtic Park to end the game 2-1? (Admittedly they were the longest 4 minutes of my life that followed!)

    I think if anything Celtic's accomplishments in this years champions league would have earned them a little bit more respect!

  • dbuk 2000 if celtic got into epl they would be up with the best very quickly all the extra revenue would enable us to buy better players we would be much bigger than the likes of everton ans as for small teams like norwich and stoke well their just transient in the top division

  • My Big Bertha is a big club no doubt about it!

    I have to put it on the roof rack

  • What exactly is it that makes a club 'big'? English clubs argue about this all the time. Liverpool?
    Celtic is a massive club. You're right about the level of Scottish football and yes, some players are too good to be playing at that level domestically.
    But can I just remind you that against the (financial) odds, Celtic are in the last 16 of the CL for the 3rd time in recent years.....

  • @ 8 - I think Celtic complained that the approach for Hooper was made public by Norwich or the agent. I don't recall Celtic complaining about unwanted approaches for their players 'per se', any more than any other club would do if they wanted to keep a player. That doesn't sound like a realistic proposition to me. Still, feel free to invent your own reality as you please!

  • @9 a big step up for him as a player? Who are you kidding....you probably ought to have checked his career before that remark. International football will always be the biggest career step for any player and as for any player not being too good to play for Celtic, a team with little domestic competition, I think you are way off the mark.

  • Ok you got what you wanted, you kept Hooper. Now make sure he scores a hat-trick in both legs against Juventus and his price-tags breaches the £12m mark (because my club Scunthorpe and their very existence may depend on a decent return from the sell-on-clause). And let's be honest, you got him cheap.

    Fair?

  • @8 Get one thing straight, no player is too good to play for Celtic. Doyle would have been a good signing and it would have been a big step up for him as a player to be able to play in the Champions' League.

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