Chelsea, Man United and Man City to battle Real Madrid for £40m Celtic star Moussa Dembele

Posted Sunday, October 30, 2016 by Express.co.uk

Chelsea, Man United and Man City to battle Real Madrid for £40m Celtic star Moussa Dembele
Celtic striker Moussa Dembele is attracting interest from Chelsea and Manchester United

CHELSEA and Manchester's United and City are preparing to go head-to-head with Real Madrid for Celtic sensation Moussa Dembele.

The young striker, who was an academy starlet at Paris St Germain, has been a revelation since moving to Scotland from Fulham on a four-year contract in the summer.

He has scored 15 goals in all competitions already, including two against Manchester City in their 3-3 Champions League draw and another four in two Old Firm games against Rangers.

Chelsea and Manchester United both watched Dembele at Ross County last week and City will run the rule over him again in their Champions League second leg clash with Celtic on December 6.

But the Spaniards remain in the box seat for a player whose value has rocketed to at least £40million in less than four months.

Real boss Zinedine Zidane has already likened him to Cristiano Ronaldo and Thierry Henry and Madrid officials are understood to have already put out feelers to Celtic - who signed Dembele on a free - with the prospect of loaning him back to the Scottish champions for a season.

In the meantime Zidane has publicly hinted at 'a great future' for Dembele.

The French legend said: "I have played with great strikers like Ronaldo, Henry and Raul, and you knew on the biggest occasions they would win you games. Dembele is already showing that.

"I understand the biggest clubs in Europe being linked with him and that will be his destination eventually. But he can still progress well at Celtic, who are in Europe."

While, majority shareholder Dermot Desmond claimed the Hoops are not interested in selling the Frenchman.

"We don't need to sell any players," he said. "Hopefully we can retain him, but our job is to have players who want to be sought by other clubs in the Premier League and elsewhere."