Battling Moussa Dembele will reportedly keep at Lyon and struggle for his beginning spot subsequent season - placing Celtic's sell-on windfall in danger.
Dembele impressed in Ligue 1 regardless of a poor marketing campaign for his membership, with Lyon ending the season in eighth and properly adrift of the Champions League and Europa League spots.
The striker netted 22 objectives with Tottenham and Fenerbahce named amongst potential suitors.
This summer time seemed to be the best time for the 25-year-old to maneuver on from the membership, with Alexandre Lacazette arriving from Arsenal.
Nevertheless, L'Equipe report the Frenchman has no intention of leaving Lyon this summer time.
Dembele reportedly sees Lacazette as a lot a accomplice in assault quite than a successor as the person striker within the aspect. .
The issue from Lyon's perspective now's that Dembele is getting into the ultimate 12 months on his contract they usually run the chance of shedding the frontman totally free.
That might additionally spark a domino impact at Celtic, who agreed a 15 per cent promote on clause when Dembele left Parkhead for France in 2018 for £19.7million.
If no deal is agreed this summer time, a pre-contract deal could possibly be penned from January, which means that no further enhance will arrive for Ange Postecoglou 's switch kitty.