Celtic arrived in Dubai on Saturday and have returned to the pitches in the heat.

Neil Lennon’s side were put through their paces in the sun as players like Jozo Simunovic, Hatem Abd Elhamed and Marian Shved appeared in training.

2020 is a huge year for Celtic as the last fixture of 2019 showed that the threat from Rangers was very real and that we need to be at our best in order to retain trophies.

Celtic will begin their defence of the Scottish Cup away to Partick Thistle at Firhill but for now, they have to get sharper and hungrier as the club look to build upon their two point lead.

Meanwhile one player has left the training camp – Scott Sinclair has flown back to the UK to speak to Preston about the possibility of moving to the English Championship side.