Celtic pre season plans in chaos after Wolves friendly in South Korea is scrapped

Celtic's pre-season plans are up in the air after Wolves pulled out of a glamour clash in Korea after a bust up with promoters.

Brendan Rodgers’ side were due to face the English Premier League outfit in Suwon on July 26. But Wolves have now withdrawn from the encounter as well as their friendly match with Roma and pulled out of their South Korea trip. Celtic will head to Japan to face Yokohama F Marinos and Gamba Osaka – but they are now in talks with the promoters over the proposed second leg of their Far East trip.

Record Sport understands there are no issues for the Hoops and they are now looking at contingency plans – with striker Oh Hyeon-gyu set for a Korean homecoming. Wolves – who have Korea star Hee Chan Hwang in their ranks – insisted they have pulled the plug over delays and problems over ticket sales.

A statement said: “The withdrawal from the scheduled matches, which were set to take place at the end of July, comes after numerous financial and logistical obligations were not met by the tour’s promoter, Stadium X/USG.

“After weeks of delays by the promotors and tickets not yet on sale for the matches, the difficult decision has been made to terminate the contract with the promoters and pull out of the tour.”

General manager for marketing and commercial growth Russell Jones said: "I feel incredibly disappointed that we’re not going to be able to fulfil the commitments that we made in South Korea this summer, not only for our partners and suppliers, but, of course for Hee Chan and all of our fans.

“We are absolutely gutted to not be going to Korea. We’re all devastated because we had so many different things planned for supporters that we’re now not going to be able to fulfil.

“To the supporters in Korea,