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Liam Bryce

Neil Lennon fuels Celtic and Paris Saint-Germain friendly hype as boss maps out potential destinations

Neil Lennon has revealed Celtic will look to France for pre-season friendlies amid claims they're set to play Paris Saint-Germain.

French newspaper L'Equipe reported on Tuesday that the Premiership and Ligue 1 champions are in "advanced talks" to meet in the coming weeks.

Alongside Scotland, Belgium and the Netherlands, France were one of the top European nation to curtail their season early.

PSG are preparing for the French Cup Final and could face Lennon's side in the run-up.

The Celtic boss wants to acclimatise his players to closed door football and confirmed France is a possible destination.

Lennon said: “It’s a longer pre-season period so we are not rushing like we are in previous years. In some summer’s they only get a couple of weeks off.

“But this time we can take a common sense approach to it and get quality work into them. Hopefully it will benefit us in terms of Europe.

“The domestic season will hopefully have started and hopefully we’ll have a game or two under our belts by the time the qualifiers start.

“We’ll need to plan it a week or so in advance and start looking at getting some matches at some stage. We want them to get used to playing behind closed doors so we might use the stadium for training a few times as well.

“The preparations will be so important and we might look at going abroad to get games. It might be difficult playing down in England as we’d have to wait until their season is finished before we can even think about arranging games with them.

“But we can look at French and Dutch teams. Their seasons were curtailed and they will be in the same position as ourselves so that’s something we’ll definitely pursue.”

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