Diomansy Kamara is set to start his first game of the season when Fulham travel to West Ham on Saturday.
The 29-year-old joined Celtic on loan in January but returned to Fulham at the end of last season despite reports of interest from Paris St Germain.
Kamara played for the last 20 minutes of Fulham’s goal-less draw at home to Everton on Saturday with Mark Hughes hoping that Kamara can go some way towards filling the gap left in his side caused by Bobby Zamora’s broken leg.
The Fulham boss said: “We’ve lost key personnel with Bobby (Zamora) and Mousa (Dembele) out so these guys are going to have to get the job done.
“I’m still getting to know them as a group of players. I have seen Diomansy from afar when I brought teams here in the past and played against him.
“He’s had something like four or five training sessions and half a game so I haven’t really seen his qualities first hand yet.
“Andy Johnson is joining in with the senior squad and we’ve got matches, behind closed doors, organised for his benefit in the coming weeks. Hopefully he’ll get through them okay and he’ll be an option, albeit initially on the bench.”
Kamara joined Celtic on the same day as Robbie Keane and Edson Braffheid as Tony Mowbray attempted to mount a challenge for the title.
None of those players were retained by Neil Lennon with Keane starting just one match since returning to White Hart Lane.
That however is one match more than Braffheid who has yet to kick a ball for Bayern Munich.
The Dutchman has been a regular on the bench without getting involved and was again on the bench for Bayern on Tuesday night when they won 2-1 away to Basel in the Champions League.
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i thought he played well for celtic.. kamara all the best m8..some good goals ye scored for us 🙂