Moussa Dembele has received an emotional send off from former club Lyon after his big move to the La Liga leaders. The 23-year-old sealed his six-month loan earlier this week and will secure a £32.5m deal in the summer if he impresses under Diego Simeone's stewardship.
The amicable exit from his homeland is night and day to the dark cloud that followed him after a disagreement with Brendan Rodgers when he called time on his Celtic career in the dying embers of the 2018 transfer window.
And now Dembele has even earned a new nickname from Lyon chief Jean Michel Aulas - a man regarded by many as the most fearsome transfer negotiator in world football.But the 71-year-old appears to be softening in his old age as he got teary-eyed in response to.
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