Leicester move for Hatate – Monday’s gossip

Leicester City are weighing up a big-money offer for Celtic’s 26-year-old Japan midfielder Reo Hatate. (Daily Mail)

Celtic midfielder Matt O’Riley is willing to wait for Atalanta to increase their bid in preference to moving to Southampton despite offers so far falling far short of the Scottish champions’ valuation of the 23-year-old. (Tuttomercato)

Joan Jordan’s departure from Sevilla to Rangers is about to be unblocked after a loan purchase with an option to buy of £4.2m was agreed for the midfielder. (Jose Manuel Garcia on X)

Rangers have pulled out of talks to sign 30-year-old Jordan. (Scottish Sun)

Brendan Rodgers admits that Gustaf Lagerbielke is set for a Celtic exit in the summer window, 12 months after the 24-year-old centre-half’s £3m arrival from Elfsborg. (Daily Record)

Tanner Tessmann’s agent Andrea D’Amico has conceded that Venezia’s asking price may scare off suitors amid interest from Celtic after Inter Milan pulled out of a deal for the 22-year-old United States midfielder. (Radio Bruno via Daily Record)

Napoli are planning to increase their £8m offer to Brighton & Hove Albion for Scotland midfielder Billy Gilmour once they sell Gianluca Gaetano to Cagliari. (Tuttomercato)

Rangers and Strasbourg have had bids rejected by Porto for 23-year-old winger Goncalo Borges. (Record)

Dundee are signing 21-year-old Queens Park Rangers left-back Ziyad Larkeche on a season-long loan. (Scottish Sun)

Forward Cyriel Dessers knows speculation is rife over his future at Rangers – with a move to Greece mooted – but he insists he is going nowhere. (Daily Record)

Aberdeen players are “all fully on-board” with boss Jimmy Thelin’s high-press strategy, says defender Jack MacKenzie. (Press & Journal)

Sam Lammers made his Twente Enschede debut then backed himself to put his Rangers misery behind him. (The Herald)

Valur Reykjavik manager Arnar Gretarsson, whose side play at St Mirren in the Europa Conference League this week, says his dream move to Rangers was ruined by an Icelandic FA rule – and the Ibrox club signed Alexei Mikhailichenko instead. (The Herald)