Sunday 7 August 2016 20:03, UK
Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers hailed the impact of new signing Scott Sinclair after he came off the bench to score the winner in their 2-1 victory at Hearts on Sunday.
Sinclair's move from Aston Vila was only confirmed on the day of the game and he made a dream start to his Hoops career when he netted the winner at Tynecastle after a penalty from Jamie Walker had cancelled out James Forrest's opener.
"He wants to score goals," Rodgers said of Sinclair. "He scored 27 goals for me in the Championship when he got promoted with me at Swansea.
"Scott has always been about enjoying his football. The last four years have been really difficult.
"I had him as a kid at 16 at Chelsea, he played in a really good youth team I had there.
"He went out on loan to a couple of clubs then I brought him to Swansea and he was outstanding and that got him a move to Manchester City and from there, really, his career has stalled.
"No one has really seen the best of him and probably forgotten about his quality.
"He is still young, he is 27 years of age, physically strong, very robust, he can play in big games, he loves the big occasion and still has a lot to learn so I think he will be a really big player for us.
"You get to 29 and from then until 35 you arguably play your best football because you have better knowledge of the game and for him he is not even at that stage yet."
The game was not without incident, with Celtic captain Scott Brown labelling Walker a "cheat" after claiming he had dived to earn the penalty he went on to convert.
"It is brilliant how well he dives. He is really good at that. He should have been in Rio," said Brown. "It was a dive. Cheat. What else can you say?
"The referee came out at half-time and said he got it completely wrong. He made the decision, he hasn't seen it and the linesman's not puts his flag up.
"It was always a hard game when you come here, a great atmosphere and you expect a hard challenge like they gave us. They tried to play football and mix it up as well.
"Hearts are great at that but sometimes there is no place in football for cheats and that's been a couple of times here now."
Hearts head coach Robbie Neilson claimed his side should have been awarded a second penalty after the break when Celtic defender Kolo Toure tangled with substitute Robbie Muirhead.
"People said was there was light contact [for the penalty] but in the second-half the Muirhead one was a penalty," said Neilson.
"Toure goes in and there is definite contact which makes Robbie Muirhead slip. It is inconsistency.
"If it is a penalty it is a penalty. If he gives one in the first-half it shouldn't influence him at all."
