Jeffrey Schlupp has Celtic Champions League giantkilling belief as he reveals Kane lesson he’s desperate to repay

Hoops loan signing has been a team mate and rival of the Bayern hitman – but would love to put one over him.

Just one mention of Harry Kane’s name spreads a grin as wide as the Clyde across Jeffrey Schlupp ’s face.

Not that the Celtic new boy reckons facing the Bayern Munich hitman is any laughing matter. Even as a team mates at Leicester 12 years ago the England skipper caused Schlupp a whole lot of pain in training. As opponents in the Premier League playground the battle was fierce.

But Schlupp isn’t one for shying away from a challenge. He’s stored that hurt and is desperate for a chance to repay it. In fact, the prospect of coming up against his old mate and rival on the biggest stage European football has to offer was one of the main reasons the 32-year-old packed his bags at Palace and headed for Parkhead with just hours to spare on deadline day.

Schlupp revealed the call from Celtic never arrived until 2pm on Monday with just nine hours remaining for clubs to do business. But once he heard of Brendan Rodgers’ interest there was no holding back the man who has well over 200 Premier League appearances under his belt at Palace and Leicester.

He’s in Glasgow for a short time. But four months is long enough to make memories for a lifetime. And having helped create one fairytale in his only previous taste of the Champions League with Leicester he sees no reason not to believe he can now help pen another with the Hoops.

Starting when Kane and co land in Glasgow next Wednesday night. Asked what his experience of facing the Munich goal machine was, Schlupp grinned: “Not fun… not fun at all!

“Top player, one of the best strikers in the world. I actually played with Harry Kane years back at Leicester when he came on loan, and even from then you could see his finishing ability was of different class.

“But we look forward to it. He’s a top striker, he’s definitely caused me some pain previously, but hopefully we can return the favour and beat him. It was a long time ago, to be fair, when he did come to Leicester, but just from playing against him anyway as adults and senior pros, you know what to expect.