Neil Lennon has accused the Israel FA of disrespecting the club by leaving him in the dark about Beram Kayal's ankle injury. The injury to Kayal could rule him out of today's home game with Dundee United. Kayal was stretchered off in the first half of Israel's 4-3 friendly defeat to the Ivory Coast on Wednesday night following a challenge from Chelsea star Didier Drogba. However, the Celtic manager, who has a host of other injury worries to contend with, could only guess at the extent of the injury until Kayal returned to Glasgow.
Lennon said: "I am not happy with the Israeli FA, there has been a lack of communication between their medical team and my medical team. Kayal got a bad one. It was a big impact from the tackle, he rolled his ankle and it is still quite swollen so he is obviously a major doubt for on Saturday. But we only knew the extent of the injury when we saw Beram yesterday, so that is something that needs to be addressed. It's not the first time that's happened to us. It has happened with other countries. Cha (Du-ri) played last year (for South Korea) when he was injured and we lost him for a few weeks after that. I'm just disappointed by the way we are being treated when we are good enough to let our players go. I think there is a professional respect, there is a duty there that they should be straight on the phone to our football club and let us know the extent of the injury and at least give my doctor an explanation of what has happened."
Kayal is not the only injury concern from international duty. Lennon went on: "Scott Brown is a doubt, he got a bit of a bang and rolled his ankle but it is not as severe as Beram's so I am hoping he can make it for tomorrow but if not he should be okay for Thursday (the Europa League play-off first leg against Sion). Injuries can happen at any time but it is so early in the season. Izaguirre is out long-term and Loovens out for four to six weeks and if we lose these two guys tomorrow it is a blow for us. I think it is just bad luck. Scott's challenge was 50-50 and he came out of it awkwardly. I haven't seen Beram's challenge but it seems it was pretty bad and Emilio's was down to pure bad luck. It is disappointing but it gives them plenty of time to recover and still feature in the season."