Evening Telegraph (First Edition)

COMPPER’S ALL SET FOR CELTIC DEBUT

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CELTIC fans could get their first sight of new signing Marvin Compper in a hooped shirt against Dundee tomorrow night.

The 32-year-old German defender arrived at t he Parkhead club from RB Leipzig during the transfer window for a reported fee of £1 million but picked up a calf injury training in Dubai.

H o w e v e r, m a n a g e r Brendan Rodgers revealed Compper has a chance to be involved in the home Premiershi­p clash against the Taysiders, along with on-loan winger Patrick Rober ts, fit again after recovering from a hamstring problem which has kept him out since November.

Kristoffer Ajer will be assessed after picking up a head knock after clashing with fellow defender Jozo Simunovic in the 2-0 win over Aberdeen at Pittodrie on Sunday which took the Hoops nine points clear of Rangers.

Rodgers said: “Patrick should be available for the squad, that was our idea to work him back f or t he Dundee game.

“So he played for the developmen­t team end of last week.

“He has been working very hard and we will assess Marvin Compper as well, so there is a possibilit­y Marvin could be involved as well.

“We need to assess Kristoffer over the next 24 hours on that one because his eye was fully closed.

“He took a real bad knock on his head and shin but he has had that patched up.

“It will just be the eye. We will see how that responds over next 24 hours.”

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