Andres Iniesta namedropped Celtic star Kyogo Furuhashi as he detailed some of the best team-mates he's played alongside.

The Barcelona and Spain icon has played with some incredible talents throughout his career including Thierry Henry, Samuel Eto'o and David Villa.

But Kyogo was mentioned along with the star-studded attackers Iniesta played with during his career on the pitch.

Iniesta told Yahoo Japan that he enjoyed a "good connection" with Kyogo when they played together at Vissel Kobe in the J-League.

He said: “I had the opportunity to play with the best players.

“For example, Samuel Eto’o, Thierry Henry, Luis Suarez, David Villa, Fernando Torres...

"I also had a pretty good connection with Kyogo Furuhashi in Japan.

“The important thing is to get to know each other and when to un-mark and make a pass, and the forwards strengthen the midfielders.”

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Meanwhile, Celtic are thought to be closing in on their third signing of the January transfer window.

Ange Postecoglou has already secured the services of Alistair Johnston and Yuki Kobayashi.

And he's hinted another new arrival could be finalised in the near future.

He commented: “We’re getting pretty close now. 

“I know Michael and Chris want to spend some time with their families at Christmas. 

“We’re working on things. There are still a couple that we are kind of investigating at the moment.  

“We will see how things transpire over the next  week or so. We’re not even into January yet so there is still a bit of time.”

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