Ntcham responds to Celtic exit speculation

Olivier Ntcham isn’t going anywhere any time soon.

The midfielder was substituted during Sunday’s League Cup semi-final win against Hearts, joining a growing list of injured Bhoys.

However, the Frenchman spoke in glowing terms of his team’s performance.

The Daily Record quote Ntcham as saying:

It’s always nice to win like this – the first half was difficult for us but we showed our quality in the end.

Hearts beat us at the beginning of the season and that was our motivation.

This was a good game in which to show them that we are the champions.

Ntcham had been tipped as a possible candidate to leave Parkhead during the summer, ultimately remaining in Glasgow.

The French U21 international said of his future:

I just concentrate on my football. It’s my agent’s job to deal with all the talk about transfers while I just focus on my job. I am happy here and I am getting better as a player with every game.

Perhaps not the comments of a man on the verge of a blockbuster exit, in a similar manner to fellow countryman Moussa Dembele.

The 3-0 victory is the latest in a run of resurgent domestic Hoops performances that have reassured fans that the team is heading for yet another Scottish Premiership title.

An appearance in the League Cup final will give a chance for some early silverware to celebrate, meaning those first few troublesome weeks of the season are but distant memories for the Celtic faithful.