West Ham United are reportedly interested in signing Celtic forward Moussa Dembele in the January transfer window.
Chris Sutton has predicted in The Daily Record that Moussa Dembele will not leave Celtic in the January transfer window.
Dembele joined Scottish Premiership giants Celtic in the summer transfer window after leaving English club Fulham at the end of the 2015-16 season.
The France Under-21 international forward has been in brilliant form so far this season, scoring goals for fun, and has been arguably the best signing of the summer transfer window in Scotland.
As stated on Celtic’s official website, the 20-year-old has scored 19 goals in 36 appearances in all competitions so far this season.
Dembele has been linked with a move away from the Glasgow giants in the January transfer window, with The Daily Mail reporting of Premier League club West Ham United’s interest in the youngster.
Former Celtic striker Sutton believes that Dembele will not leave the Glasgow giants this month.
“Dembele stands out and my gut feeling is he will still be a Celtic player when the transfer window closes,” Sutton wrote in The Daily Record. “West Ham have been linked and after making a bid for Jermain Defoe are in the market for a striker.
“You can’t rule out Dembele leaving if the bid reaches a figure where the club feel they have to cash in. Celtic have always been a selling club – that’s the nature of it but I said recently they let Virgil van Dijk go too cheaply and £20million isn’t enough for Dembele. On that basis, I think he’ll stay.”
Celtic are at the top of the Scottish Premiership table at the moment with 58 points from 20 matches.
Rodgers’s side are 19 points clear of second-placed and Old Firm rivals Rangers and have a game in hand.
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