New Rangers loan signing Ben Godfrey insists he "learned a lot" from his move to Atalanta despite very limited playing time in Italy. The 28-year-old centre-half made just five appearances from the bench for the Serie A side, totalling 93 minutes, after a £10m switch from Everton in the summer of 2024. Since then, he has had loan spells at Ipswich Town, Sheffield United and Brondby in Denmark.
Celtic have made contact with Brondby over the availability of 23-year-old Bosnia and Herzegovina midfielder Benjamin Tahirovic. Fulham, Nottingham Forest and Sunderland are stepping up their interest in Celtic midfielder Arne Engels, 22. Jackie McNamara believes former club Celtic should expect transfer interest in Canada right-back Alistair Johnston, 27.
Brentford's new defender Jannik Schuster is steeped in sporting excellence – just not in the sport you might expect. From Tirol, a renowned skiing region of Austria, Schuster learned from his high-performance sporting family but chose a different path when he joined RB Salzburg at under-14 level. It was there that the 6ft 3in centre-back used that mentality to develop through the youth ranks into a well-rounded player.
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