Hartson hopes O’Neill will stay at Celtic

CELTIC’S players are hoping to learn in the next few days whether Martin O'Neill will still be their manager next season.

O’Neill, whose current deal expires in the summer, has been absent from the Scottish champions mid-winter training camp in Florida while holding negotiations on a new contract in Barbados.

He was expected to join up with the players yesterday and striker John Hartson said the squad expected an announcement imminently.