Holders St Mirren are drawn away to Rangers in the last 16 of the Premier Sports Cup, while Celtic visit Dundee United.

Bodo/Glimt striker Kasper Hogh is due to have a medical with Celtic in the next 24 hours, the Scottish champions' manager, Martin O'Neill, reveals.

Ipswich Town sign Japan forward Daizen Maeda from Celtic on a contract until summer 2029.

All five Scottish teams in European competitions have opted to postpone their Premiership matches scheduled for Saturday, 22 August.

Former Celtic striker Cillian Sheridan suggests the Scottish champions are making the same mistakes as last season, so we look at how their preparations are going.

It took four months to land but, when it did, the independent review of crowd disorder at the Old Firm Scottish Cup quarter-final at Ibrox in March arrived with a mighty thud, writes Tom English.

Rangers and Celtic face disciplinary charges over the unrest that followed their Scottish Cup meeting at Ibrox in March, while an independent review is critical of ultras groups and scathing on planning inadequacies.

Martin O'Neill insists Celtic are "making some progress" in introducing more new faces to his squad as he opens up on the failure to re-sign Kelechi Iheanacho and Marcelo Saracchi.

Paul Lambert believes former club Celtic are "nowhere near good enough" without further recruitment but has guarded against "panic".

Nigeria striker Kelechi Iheanacho turns down a new contract with Celtic and joins Bursaspor as former loanee Marcelo Saracchi admits defeat in his bid to return to the Scottish champions.

Celtic's lack of summer transfer activity is because they are struggling to compete with English Championship clubs and deal with agents, according to the club's chief executive Michael Nicholson.