Olivier Ntcham

Well aye I don't think anyone is confident of knocking PSG out of the CL

 

A we draw? Lets be honest here. Psg are gonna get * 5-5

 

AS a ten-year-old, the only hoops Olivier Ntcham was interested in were basketball ones.
Only blunt advice from mum Anne Marie stopped him from abandoning football.

No wonder the Celtic star now expects her to be bursting with pride when she watches him walk out at the Parc des Princes on November 22 to face Neymar, the world’s most expensive player, and his PSG pals.
Ntcham made it clear in the aftermath of group-stage qualification in Astana that he’d love to play his childhood favourites in the glitziest club competition in the game.
And after getting his wish via the Champions League draw in Monaco, the £4million ace opened up on an extraordinary upbringing which could also have seen the game lose him to BREAKDANCING.

Paris-born Ntcham is thrilled with the idea of testing his ability against £198m man Neymar.
He said: “It’s a very exciting draw and I’m happy because I wanted to play against PSG.
“I come from Paris. It’s special for me because when I was young I was a big PSG fan.
“I always follow the transfer stories — PSG have again spent a lot of money!
“It’s the first time I’ll have played against their first team. My hero as a kid was Pauleta, the striker. I loved him when he was on the pitch.
“I have two friends at the club — central defender Presnel Kimpembe and midfielder Adrien Rabiot — and I played against them when we were younger a couple of times.
“I watched PSG games on the television but I was never able to see them at the stadium.

“All my family are in Paris. It’s too early for them to have been in touch, but I know they will be very excited.
“It will be very emotional for my mum and dad to see me play at the Parc des Princes. They will be full of pride.
“When I was young, I was in Canada for two years. I wanted to stop playing football to play basketball instead.
“But my mother said, ‘No, you don’t stop, you must continue playing football.’

“So it will be emotional for her now. I was ten or 11 years old. I feel I owe my mother a lot because of her telling me to stick with football.
“I was very serious about stopping football. In Canada, we didn’t play outside because it was too cold. We played five against five indoors and, after two years, I wanted to stop. But she said, ‘Don’t stop’.
“She never watched me play football, but for some reason she just felt I had to continue playing. I’m glad I did.
“I only started playing football when I was ten years old. Quite late, yes, but before that I was a breakdancer. It was between breakdancing and football.
“I performed with my older brother. He still does it. I also liked boxing a lot.
“I used to breakdance outside, in front of people, putting on shows in the streets.
“I’ve not shown my dancing skills here yet — I haven’t even told my team-mates.”

Asked if he would celebrate with a bit of breakdancing if he were to score a winner against PSG, he laughed: “I’d hope to do that!”
Bayern Munich and Anderlecht make up a stunning Group B for Celtic — and Ntcham has a friend and hero in the Germans’ squad.
He said: “I know Kingsley Coman because we played together for the national team.
“Franck Ribery is a player I have always admired a lot. It is incredible how his career has developed. In France, we have an academy but he didn’t come through the academy level.
“He went elsewhere, played a lot of football and got a move straight to Marseille. Then he went to Bayern Munich.
“The way he came through was a lot harder. He has been a big inspiration for me.”

Celtic are viewed as the section’s underdogs — but Ntcham refuses to write off their chances of qualifying for the last 16.
He said: “This is a big part of why I’m here and it was my target because we weren’t sure if we would go through. My first target has been achieved, so I am happy.
“Anything and everything can happen in football. Even if you spend £400m on a player, every other player on the pitch has to fit around them as well.
“We don’t have a target — we will just go out on the pitch and play.”

 

OE on playing alongside compatriots @OlivierNtcham & @MDembele_10 at Celtic: “I think it’s going to help a great deal. "

OE: "As you know Moussa and Olivier are among the best players in France of this generation so this can only benefit me."

OE: “Haven’t really had a chance to talk to them, but this morning I had a message from Olivier welcoming me to the club."

 

Starts for France u21's in friendly vs. Chile. Some lineup they have, loaded with starters for Leipzig, Monaco, Atletico Madrid, etc. Good company our boy keeps.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIpkwJsWsAYuEMN?format=jpg&name=large

 

Quotes from the Celtic website.


Olivier, who we brought in from Manchester City, has already shown that he is a real, top class player, who will only get better. He is a player who I always felt would work for us and he has already given us some huge performances.”

 

*sees bumped Ntcham thread*

*worries he's injured*

*all good, time for a **

 

Can tell rodgers told them the part at the end about it being a team game

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Has everyone seen that belter he scored in training before he came here? Somehow only seeing it now

 

Goals a belter

 

Seen it on one of them best training goals videos. * *

 

The boy has some skills.

 

Saving that gif beside his flick against Astana. Absolute baller the man

 

Imagine that goal in the last minute against Paris.

Ooft.

 

And everyone else.

 

Quality player, plenty more to come from him. Very composed, comfortable under pressure and can ping a pass. Despite playing deep I reckon he'll manage 10+ goals a season too.