Anxious wait over transfer target’s tests

CELTIC boss Brendan Rodgers said he was awaiting news on whether transfer target Rivaldo Coetzee had passed his medical.

Reports from South Africa have suggested the £800,000 move for the Ajax Cape Town centre defender could be off because it had been found a bone in his foot was not fusing properly.

“OK. I am awaiting news on that,” said the Hoops boss when asked on the subject.

“Tim ( Williamson, the Celtic physio) has gone out there to South Africa. I spoke to him last night.

“Rivaldo’s medical was over the course of the weekend so hopefully we will have some news on that over the next 24-48 hours.”

Meanwhile, St Johnstone manager Tommy Wright was a little further ahead with an update of Murray Davidson, his midfielder who was taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary after being knocked out in a clash of heads with Scott Brown and teammate Aaron Comrie.

“We think he is going to get out of hospital soon so that is good news,” he said.

“I think it was quite serious at the time.

“He might have damaged some of his teeth as well but he certainly lost consciousness when he was going off the pitch.

“He probably got lucky because we had two players involved in the clash. Young Aaron got a cut on the head as well.”

Saints midfielder Steven MacLean meanwhile laughed off suggestions he had been lucky to escape a red card for throwing an arm at Celtic defender Kieran Tierney.

“We were just having a bit of crack, it was a coming together and I said to him, ‘I am old enough to be your old man’,” he laughed. “I was 35 on Wednesday. “We just brushed together but after the game we were having a carry on and I said: ‘I never caught you once’ and he said: ‘no worries’.”

He also confessed his goal almost never was.

“I thought I was offside, I’ll be honest. I was just taking the mick. I put it in and turned round and they were saying: ‘he gave it’.”

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