Moussa Dembele: Striker says he has 'achieved everything I can as a Celtic player'
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Moussa Dembele says he left Scottish football after he had "achieved everything he can as a Celtic player".
The 22-year-old joined Lyon for £19.7m on Friday, 24 hours after missing the Europa League win over Suduva.
Manager Brendan Rodgers said in a statement the transfer was "to serve the best interests" of "the culture and environment" at Celtic.
"That September when we annihilated Rangers was surely the moment we fell in love," Dembele wrote on Twitter.
The French striker said he would "miss playing against Rangers", and told fans that together they had "conquered Glasgow".
The comments came after Dembele had earlier claimed Celtic "gave in" to sanction his late deadline day move to Lyon.
"I was determined to come to Lyon," Dembele said at his unveiling after signing a five-year contract.
"Those in charge gave in. It was hard. I gave everything and in the end, it paid off."
On Thursday Dembele, who signed for Celtic from Fulham in 2016, tweeted "A man, without his word, is nothing. A real man keeps his word", and "A lie has many variations, the truth has none".
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The following day he briefly took part in training before going back into the club's Lennoxtown training ground hours before his transfer was confirmed.
Celtic signed midfielder Youssouf Mulumbu and brought in defender Filip Benkovic on loan on Friday, but did not bring in a replacement striker after Dembele's exit.
"It was a certainty that I wanted to come to OL," added the Frenchman.
"I have played with a lot of Lyonnais players. They all told me to come. I'm a scorer, it's my first quality.
"Celtic needed a replacement to finalise."
The Ligue 1 club's president Jean-Michel Aulas said Dembele's determination to move to Lyon made the transfer happen.
"Without that, he could not have come," he explained.
"The club has a financial strength that is recognized throughout Europe. Sometimes you have to use it."
'Celtic have lost their best striker' - reaction
Former Celtic striker & BBC Sport Scotland pundit Scott McDonald
It's an amazing amount of money. But they've lost, I believe, their best striker at this moment in time and haven't found a replacement.
To even be thinking about turning it down just shows you what Celtic's position is financially. But Celtic fans won't thank you for that right now.
There will be people concerned at the moment about whether they can go with two strikers up until January.
I'm hugely surprised. Everything that came out yesterday and the day before was that he wasn't going to be sold.
If the cryptic tweets were anything to go by then there certainly has been a fall-out.
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Dembele 'I am committed to Celtic for the long term'
Indeed, a man does keep his word.
Like any club, you cannot hold on to a player who has basically thrown the dummy out the pram
So you get rid of him for as much as possible
Pity we didn't get as much as l'pool got for cotinyo
Can't forget we just sold a player we bought for 400k for 20 million. Hopefully some of that gets reinvested come January or next summer, if not then it's a bloody disgrace.
No one is bigger than the club.
Good luck Moussa, step up French Eddy.
I,ll let other people judge. However just to make it simple son you said Celtic could never win more titles than Rangers and said that was fact. We only need 6 more in the future to have more than 54. Your NEW team however need another.....well 55 really. Simple really.
Celtic have more than enough goals in their squad so I don't think they'll miss him that much. Larsson scored more in 1 season than Dembele managed in 2.
Hope Griffiths has the shooting boots on for tomorrow
Not fit to wear the jersey and will not be remembered well by fans.
He was no Henrik Larsson - that man was the embodiment of loyalty and an example to all professional footballers.
Congrats then to Celtic . We got 20 million for a player you rate as worth a fiver. Are there any sane Sevco fans out there?
You were not voted out of the league. Rangers FC were liquidated. FACT. And your reply is?