Celtic manager Neil Lennon will make a plea via telephone from Australia to a Scottish Football Association appeal board as he attempts to win a work permit required for the transfer of Kenyan midfielder Victor Wanyama from Germinal Beerschot

Victor Wanyama has arrived in Glasgow to secure a £900,000 to Celtic from Germinal Beerschot hoping that he will not be denied a work permit, as happened with his brother, McDonald Mariga, when he was on the brink of a move to Manchester City

Aston Villa manager Alex McLeish might beat Celtic to the signing of Kenyan midfielder Victor Wanyama

Belgian outfit Germinal Beerschot are offering Rangers' Thomas Buffel an escape route back to his homeland