Soccer:Neil Lennon has revealed his disappointment with youngster Islam Feruz's decision to leave Celtic. The Parkhead boss voiced his concerns over the way agents have influenced the 16-year-old Somalian-born Scotland youth international.

The club helped Feruz’s asylum-seeking family to remain in Glasgow but he reportedly agreed to join Chelsea. Lennon admits he is still upset at losing the highly-rated forward, whom he had lined up to train with the first team this season.

“Celtic have looked after Islam and his family very well but it’s obvious his head has been turned,” he said. “Peter Lawwell (chief executive) and I met with Islam’s representatives — and I use that term loosely — but there was no going back on their part.

“We’ve done all we can to keep him here but I haven’t seen him since the start of pre-season training. We took him and his family out of what you might call a rough housing estate and put them into a nice flat in the West End of Glasgow.

“We did all we could to make life here as easy as possible for him. We even had him training with the first team for the final few months of last season. Islam was going along very nicely with us and had a good agent in John Colquhoun. Then the boy let somebody take over his future.

“His attitude changed dramatically and his attitude towards the club changed dramatically. Yet our club had been so good to him.”