• ‘Celtic’s just a loan move and always has been’
• Harry Redknapp says Keane will not move on loan again

Robbie Keane has confirmed he intends to start next season back at Tottenham.

The 29-year-old has impressed since arriving at Celtic on loan last month, prompting talk his current side could seek to keep him at Parkhead.

But the Spurs manager Harry Redknapp insisted on Friday there was “no way” he wanted Keane’s loan to be extended, and the player himself does not see himself staying in Scotland beyond this season either.

“I’ve got a three-year contract at Tottenham so I will go back there in the summer,” he said.

“It’s just a loan move and always has been. I’ve got a lot of friends down at Tottenham and I miss the lads – I speak to them all the time and they are doing well at the moment.

“I also miss the tea ladies – they are very good down there!”

Redknapp told the Scottish Sun on Friday: “I don’t see us loaning Robbie out again.

“We paid a lot of money for him. So it’s not something I see happening. It would obviously be up to the chairman but I couldn’t see it being a possibility.

“I certainly would not want it to be happening. Robbie’s only on loan until the end of this season as far as we’re concerned. We want him back so in my mind there’s no way of another loan deal.”

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• ‘He is absolutely part of our future plans,’ says manager
• Australian striker McDonald could be on his way out

Celtic have reacted furiously to the ­suggestion that they will attempt to sell the influential midfielder Scott Brown in the current transfer window. A report this morning claimed that Brown had been told by Tony Mowbray in a ­meeting shortly before Christmas that he had no future at the club. The £4.5m signing from Hibernian, who is close to a return from an ankle injury, has been linked with Tottenham Hotspur.

“The story is absolute nonsense,” Mowbray, the Celtic manager, said. “I never told Scott Brown that I want him to leave the club. Scott is a huge player for Celtic and absolutely part of the future plans of this club. It’s disappointing that people are able to write things which are so inaccurate.”

Brown, who also played under ­Mowbray at Hibernian, said: “Obviously I am very disappointed with this article as there is no foundation to it. I have worked with the manager for some time and have a very good relationship with him.”

Celtic, who say they are ­considering legal action over the report, said in a ­statement that they would not allow ­”outside interference” to disrupt their attempts to reclaim the Scottish Premier League title from Rangers.

The Norwegian teenager Thomas Rogne has joined Celtic on a three and a half-year contract, from Stabaek. ­Mowbray is keen to sign at least three more players this month with Scott McDonald, the striker who has failed to command a starting place this season, likely to leave Parkhead.

Another player who could be leaving Glasgow is Rangers’ Pedro Mendes. The former Portsmouth midfielder is wanted by Sporting Lisbon and he could be willing to take a cut in his £25,000-a-week salary in order for the move to his native Portugal to happen.

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