{"id":3352,"date":"2026-06-15T08:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=3352"},"modified":"2026-06-15T08:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:43:13","slug":"scottish-gossip-bowie-mcinnes-basic-forbes-eskesen-mcglynn-pressley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=3352","title":{"rendered":"Scottish gossip: Bowie, McInnes, Basic, Forbes, Eskesen, McGlynn, Pressley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With four signings already in place, <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Heart of Midlothian<\/b> will make up to six more by the time the summer window closes and there will very likely also be one or two departures. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com\/sport\/football\/hearts\/hearts-transfer-movements-as-the-summer-window-opens-in-scotland-8690329\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">(Edinburgh Evening News)<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A striker and centre-half are <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Hibernian&#8217;s <\/b>priorities in the summer transfer window. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com\/sport\/football\/hibs\/hibs-transfer-window-early-deals-top-targets-8689635\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">(Edinburgh Evening News)<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Cove Rangers<\/b> hope to continue to take young <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Aberdeen<\/b> players on loan next season. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressandjournal.co.uk\/fp\/sport\/football\/cove-rangers\/7032987\/cove-rangers-hoping-to-land-more-young-aberdeen-players\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">(Press &#038; Journal)<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Hearts<\/b> head coach Derek McInnes, who is poised to join <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Rangers<\/b>did not reject the Ibrox club as has been claimed in 2017 but instead turned down the switch from Aberdeen because of a late shift by then chairman Dave King during contract talks. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/derek-mcinnes-didnt-reject-rangers-37292816\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">(Daily Record)<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Hearts<\/b> are unlikely to turn to two former Tynecastle stalwarts &#8211; <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Falkirk&#8217;s<\/b> John McGlynn and <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Dundee&#8217;s<\/b> Steven Pressley &#8211; as a replacement should head coach McInnes join <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Rangers<\/b> &#8211; but could still shop again in the Scottish market. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/hearts-next-manager-clues-lie-37293707\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">(Daily Record)<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Luke Graham of <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Dundee <\/b>tops <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Rangers&#8217;<\/b> wishlist once McInnes takes over. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-transfer-news\/12-rangers-transfers-derek-mcinnes-37292975\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">(Daily Record)<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With four signings already in place, Heart of Midlothian will make up to six more by the time the summer&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}