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Celtic May Have Had An Ulterior Motive For Playing 13-Year-Old In U20 Game

PJ Browne
By PJ Browne
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More than one Dembele has been making the headlines for Celtic recently. Moussa scored a hat-trick against Rangers last month and then a brace against Man City in the Champions League. He's just 19 and a player Celtic fans are incredibly excited about.

There is an even younger player at the club with the same surname who has received plenty of press in recent weels.

Last week, 13-year-old Karamoko Dembele came on as a substitute in a U20 game for Celtic against Hearts. He looks a player with bundles of potential. A video with highlights of his performance in a St Kevins Boys Academy Cup game against Barcelona received plenty of attention in the last week.

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His abilities were not news to Man City though. According to a source of The Sun, City are interested in Dembele and have been aware of his potential quite a while.

He has been on the radar for a number of months now. He is very talented.

The club is always searching around Europe for another potential star and Dembele is one being looked at.

Dembele playing in that U20 game had many wondering about whether or not it would actually benefit his development. He was a 13-year-old playing against opposition five or six years older than him - individuals far more physically developed.

The club's reason for playing him in that game may have had an ulterior motive, also according to The Sun. They believe that should another club, such as Man City, attempt to prise him away, they could use that game as evidence of their development of him as a player in any possible court case fight for compensation.

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