CELTIC coach Wim Jansen arrived back in Glasgow last night after having supervised his last game in charge of the Parkhead team in Lisbon, and fired a final salvo at the club management for claiming he would have been sacked if he had not resigned.

''That has hurt me the most of all,'' he said, surrounded by autograph hunters in Glasgow Airport.

''I told them my thoughts and they had chances to tell me what they thought. They didn't do that and then finally when I said I quit, they say this behind my back. If they told me to my face then that is all in the game, and you have to accept it, but I am very disappointed about the way they did this.''

None the less, as a female fan gave him a kiss and the media circus milled around the Parkhead party, Jansen confessed that he would always have a strong feeling for Celtic. ''Of course that is how it will be for me. When I look back during the season, the fans have been so good and that is the hardest part of leaving. If you think about Saturday, and that was some day, that is the kind of thing that will live with me for the rest of my life.''

Jansen, who will go back to Parkhead later this week to tidy up his desk and set out for new pastures, insisted that, despite everything that has happened in the latter days of his time at Parkhead, that he would consider his year in Scotland as major highlight of his career.

''If you go to a club and win two out of three major trophies, it is very special. I could only better it by winning three but I don't think people expected me to do that. What will always be important for me was the way players

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worked for me and what they achieved.

''What I have seen here in one year, the way the club means so much to the people, especially after Saturday, will not be forgotten in my life. That is what you work all year for and if you get it you need to be proud and celebrate it.''

Asked about the breakdown in communications that he talked of when describing his relationship with general manager Jock Brown, Jansen said: ''If two people can't work together there is almost no communication. That is easy to see but I can't say which of the parties was wrong. If you know you can't really work with someone that is no good. That is why I had to make a decision myself.''

Although two clubs have indicated an interest in his future, Espanol and Vitesse Arnheim, Jansen said: ''I want to go away and have a rest now before I begin to think about what to do next. There will be clubs coming up but I want to have a break before I do anything else.''

It has now emerged that Celtic defender Alan Stubbs has joined Paul Lambert in expressing worries over his future with the club.

Lambert has declared that he must consider his position after Jansen's decision to leave. Now Stubbs has claimed: ''I just don't know what will happen to me now that the coach has gone. I don't know what my position will be.

''Every player has his price and if some club wants to buy me, then the new man might be happy to listen to an offer. He might not like me style of play - who knows? ''Basically, we all have these doubts now because Wim has left. I think that we have also handed Rangers some advantage for next season. They have a new man in place, they are lining up new players, and we are going to be some weeks behind them in preparations. It was not a good situation last summer and here we are again in the same position.''

The Englishman was clearly upset at Jansen's departure and he snapped: ''It was not Jock Brown nor Fergus McCann who won the title for Celtic - it was Wim, the players, and the support. Wim spoke to us in the dressing room after the game and then Tom Boyd, as captain, thanked him for all of us. It was not too emotional because we had adjusted to the news.

''We knew things were not going well and that Wim had his problems with other people at the club, and so I suppose we expected something to happen.''