Sebastian Tounekti is determined to nail down a starting place at Celtic.
The winger joined the club in the closing minutes of the 2025 summer transfer window.
Like most involved at the club season 25/26 wasn’t vintage even though Tounekti finished the campaign as a double winner.
The fall off in goals and chances was incredible.
What you would expect on the back of selling Kyogo Furuhashi, Adam Idah and Nicolas Kuhn.
With almost a full season under his belt and two winners medals Tounekti is looking to kick on and raise his contributions to the team.
The Daily Record reports Tounekti saying:
I want to get into a rhythm. I know I can help the team to win games with goals and assists. I’m pretty sure I will do that. I’m feeling in great form and training well. Hopefully I can help the team as soon as possible.
Maybe people forget that you don’t really know what kind of club you’re coming to. Of course, you know the history and how massive the club is.
But you have to be here and feel it to really know the size of the club and the expectations.
For me, last season had a lot of ups and downs. I got the feeling of the club and the meaning of the club.
I’m really positive for the new season now and confident I have learned a lot and will do well this season.
Rugby Park today should bring back happy memories for Tounekti.
He made his Celtic debut there last September then scored against Auchinleck on January and Kilmarnock in February.
The plastic pitch has been removed but the Tunisian winger has the same task in front of him- supplying and scoring goals.
With Egyptian winger Haissem Hassan rumoured to be on his way to Celtic the competition for places on the wing is about to be stepped up.
Camilo Duran and Yang Hyun-jun were the starting wingers against Dundee on Monday. Tounekti and James Forrest came off the bench.
Having four fully functioning wingers contributing and competing for places will be the target.
In the background Celtic fans will be hoping that at some stage Jota will be added to the rota. Delivering goals and assists.
Chances could become limited for Tounekti, today at Kilmarnock he has to make in-roads towards making himself undroppable.
Last season Tounekto started 31 matches, scoring 5 goals.
I quite like Tounekti.
Yes, like all wingers he can be predictable but he seemed to get damned for our shocking lack of goalscoring options, even when he was playing well.
I remember a game against Falkirk or Dundee at home, where he crossed the ball to the back post (no takers), short to near post (no takers), cut back to edge of box (no takers), hard across goal (no takers) etc.
I’ll reserve final judgement on our wing play when we’ve settled goal scoring options in the middle for them to aim at.