New Celtic signing Moussa Dembele has claimed that he is confident that his new club will make it to the Champions League group stage in the forthcoming season.
Dembele, who has been acquired from Championship club Fulham, has penned a four-year deal at the club and will join the club’s pre-season training camp in Slovenia; Celtic will pay a training fee of £500,000, to be split between Fulham and Paris Saint-Germain.
The 19-year-old, who joined Fulham from French giants PSG, made 46 appearances in all competitions for the Cottagers last season, scoring as many as 17 times.
Dembele, who joined Fulham as a 16-year-old, is confident that his new club will qualify for the group stage of the Champions League next season, despite coming up short in the last two seasons.
He was quoted as saying by STV: "I'm 100% confident.
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"It's up to us to work hard and keep believing in ourselves.
“We're a good team so if we play well we'll win the games."
Celtic, who won the Scottish Premiership title last season, will face the winners of the first Champions League qualifying round clash between Flora Tallinn and Lincoln Red Imps on 12th July, before facing the winners of the tie again on 19th July in the second leg.
Former Liverpool and Swansea manager Brendan Rodgers, who was recently appointed as the new boss at Celtic Park, has already made a signing in the form of young Kristoffer Ajer from IK Start, though the deal was put in place by his predecessor Ronny Deila.
