Brendan Rodgers slammed hard by his former player for signing £5.5m-a-year deal at Leicester

Rodgers puts pen to paper on his deal alongside vice chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha

Moussa Dembele has reignited his bitter feud with Brendan Rodgers after his old boss quit Celtic to sign a £5.5million-a-year deal at Leicester on Tuesday.

He and Rodgers have previous after the Northern Irishman claimed Dembele only left Celtic for the money, leading to the player sending a series of furious tweets.

Moussa Dembele was quick to weigh in after Brendan Rodgers' Celtic exit was confirmed

In one, he took aim at Rodgers and urged Celtic fans to ‘be careful who they call their leader’, shortly before he completed his move back to France with Lyon.

Now, six months on, Rodgers too has left Celtic – and Dembele was quick to stick the boot in on his former coach once more.

Rodgers says he will 'give my life to make the supporters proud' after making the move south

Quoting a tweet confirming Rodgers’ arrival at Leicester, Dembele simply said ‘#Interesting’, before posting a GIF of a man looking confused.

In a follow-up tweet, the French forward quoted lyrics from the Notorious B.I.G hit Juicy, writing: ‘#AndIfYouDon’tKnowNowYouKnow #IToldYou’.

Incredibly, Dembele then weighed in for a fourth time, posting a video of Muhammad Ali’s legendary post-fight interview after his ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ bout with George Foreman.

Dembele was a Celtic hero before his exit to Lyon, scoring 51 goals in 94 appearances

In the clip, Ali says: ‘Everybody stop talking now, okay, I told all of my critics, I told you all.’

Dembele’s strong words come after Rodgers tried to veto the striker’s move to Lyon last summer, due to Celtic not having a replacement. 

Dembele then posted Notorious B.I.G. lyrics, saying 'I told you so' following tweets last summer

In the end, Dembele’s move did go through, but he was heavily abused by Celtic fans who questioned his loyalty to the club.

Now though, many Celtic fans are issuing apologies to their old player after Rodgers became the latest high-profile exit at the Scottish Premiership giants. 

Rodgers' backroom staff Glen Driscoll, Chris Davies  and Kolo Toure (L-R) hold Leicester shirts

The pair’s acrimony began last summer, with Dembele keen to return to his home country to join Lyon.

Celtic initially blocked the move, before allowing the player to leave deep into the final day of the window. The saga did not end without some strong words from Rodgers, though.

At the time, he said ‘the whole episode was disappointing’, and that ‘there was a line overstepped [by Dembele] from a behaviour perspective.’

There was not always bad blood between the pair, who won two Premiership titles together

In a statement, he also admitted that he allowed Dembele to leave ‘in order to serve the best interests of the first-team squad, my coaching team and the culture and environment we have created in these last two seasons’.

Taking to Twitter, Dembele wrote: ‘A man without his word is nothing. A real man keeps his word.’

Since then, Dembele has scored eight goals for Lyon in 22 appearances, while Celtic are flying high at the top of the Scottish Premiership.

Their season has now been made more complicated by Rodgers’ exit though, with the club still fighting on numerous fronts and vying for the domestic ‘treble treble’.

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