'It feels like home' - Jota's joy at Celtic return

Jota insists he always felt he would rejoin Celtic - he just didn't expect it to happen so soon.

The Portuguese winger has returned from Rennes to the Scottish champions 18 months after leaving in a reported £25million move to Saudi Arabian side Al-Ittihad.

The 25-year-old, who scored 28 goals in 83 appearances in his first Celtic spell, said: "I'm buzzing. It feels like home and for me that's something that I was aiming for. Going to Lennoxtown and training, it just felt like nostalgic but it felt like I've never left.

"It's obviously been a year and a half with some difficulties, mostly inside the pitch where I didn't have a lot of opportunities to play and obviously physically it's not my best moment but that will come quickly with minutes, game time, training and I just can't wait for it."

Jota has no regrets over his move to Saudi Arabia - where he found game-time limited because his club signed another foreign player after already filling their quota - or subsequent switch to France, where he struggled to make an impact.

"It's life isn't it? It's choices that you make and you have to live with them and you have to go through them," he said.

"So I've learned a lot of stuff, I've known myself in different ways and I think that's all positive because I'm much more mature. I have a different vision from what I want and what I want to achieve and I'm very aware of myself so that's what I take from it.

"I kept in touch with a lot of guys from Celtic and even if sometimes it was on a joke, like 'hey why don't you come back', there was always this feeling that there's a very good place over there, somewhere that I felt really good, so why not come back one day?

"Obviously, and I'm being truthful, I didn't know that it was going to be so fast but the last year and a half felt like 10 years so coming here it's just like a great feeling of joy and happiness."