DESPITE reports circulating online, started by Romanian site GSP, Celtic are not interested in signing the Cluj striker Billel Omrani.
The media outlet claimed that Celtic were the Scottish club about to pay around £3million for the striker who netted twice at Celtic Park in the Champions League qualifier to help eliminate the Scottish Champions from that competition.
Omrani started his career at Marseille and has scored only 32 goals in 116 appearances for Cluj.
Neil Lennon is NOT interested in bringing the Cluj forward back to Paradise but there could be something in the story linking Celtic with a loan move for Leicester City winger Fousseni Diabate, which we first told you about yesterday.
He’ll have to do something about that hairdo though surely?
Meanwhile Neil Lennon spoke about this evening’s Europa League Play-off second leg tie against AIK in Stockholm this evening – remember the game kicks off at 6pm Celtic Park time.
“We have a good lead, but that can be eaten up very quickly and psychologically the tie can change.
“It’s important we start the game well. If we can get control of the game, even better.
“I would imagine AIK will be a little bit more aggressive in their play than they were at Celtic Park. But that may play into our hands a little bit,” The Celtic manager said, as reported by the official Celtic site.
“There are goals in us. If we get one Stockholm have a mountain to climb really. That would be the objective, to try and score at any time.
“It might take patience, but we will try and approach the game in the same way and keep the momentum going.”
“We’re a front-foot team. We’re not going to ask players to do something alien in the space of two or three days. Setting up defensively might be a recipe for disaster.
“AIK are dangerous. They won at the weekend, they have good strikers and in Seb Larsson they have a very experienced, quality player who’s a threat at set-plays. Set-pieces are something we have to be very wary of. They have a good mentality and will believe the tie’s not over so we have to respect that as well.
“If the time runs down they might come out and have a real go at us or they might do that to start with,” The Celtic manager said.
“They may be patient, let us have the ball and counter-attack us. I can’t predict it but what I can predict is we’ll play how we want to play and impose our game on them.
“We know we’re capable of scoring goals and we’ve shown that this season. If we can score one that would put us in a tremendous position in the tie.
“The psychology of the tie could change if AIK get ahead of stream and we have to be prepared for that. We have players in the team who are very dangerous and we proved that last week. We can’t sit in for 90 minutes, we may be forced to sit in at times and there may be moments in the game where we have to weather but we’re capable of being positive and scoring goals.”