Misfit Vakoun Bayo has walked out of the Ivory Coast Olympic football squad to enter into talks to clinch a move away from Celtic to Belgium.
And he's left his country one player short for their quest at Olympic glory in Japan.
The Celtic flop spent last season on loan at Toulouse and impressed during their French second tier campaign as they failed to win promotion in the play-offs.
Toulouse had an option to buy him for £1.3 million, but wanted him to return to the club on loan instead and their president, Damien Comolli, insisted the player had promised him he wanted to come back and play for them in France.
But Bayo is on his way to Belgium to clinch a deal with a yet-unnamed club there and end his Parkhead hell.
The 24-year-old was named in Ivory Coast's Olympic squad and Celtic and Ange Postecoglou allowed him to play in the football tournament which starts later this month.
But the African nation have been left outraged that he's left the camp because and won't play in the Finals because his new team don't want him to travel to Japan.
An Ivory Coast FA spokesman said: "We will try to replace him in the squad after this.
"But as it stands, we don't think the IOC will accept our request since the deadline for submitting the lists has expired."
Bayo started just one league game and made eight substitute appearances in 18 months since signing for the Hoops and netted against Partick Thistle in the League Cup and Clyde in the Scottish Cup.
He cost Celtic £2 million in 2019 when he signed a four-year deal from the Slovakian side Dunajska Streda.
