NEIL LENNON today insisted there have been no bids from Belgian clubs - or anyone else - for Tony Watt.

The Hoops boss added that, if anyone does want to buy the 20-year-old striker, currently being frozen out at his loan club, Lierse, they should put up the money.

Lennon has no plans to offload Watt, who was given a new contract last season which is scheduled to run until 2016.

And, unless anything else develops in the next couple of months, the Parkhead boss expects the player to be back at Lennoxtown when pre-season training begins on June 24.

When asked about reports that third-placed Zulte-Waregem are prepared to stump up £650,000 to sign Watt, and that Oostende were also keen on signing him, Lennon replied: "It's up to them."

He added: "There have been no bids for him, that I am aware of. So, unless there is confirmation of a bid coming in...

"If one does come in, we will look at it, but it is not something I have given much thought to."

Lennon is closely monitoring Watt's problems at Lierse, the Jupiler League club he joined for a season at the end of August.

He is aware that manager, Stanley Menzo, has dropped him down to the reserves after another fall out, and that his last appearance for the first team was on March 1.

Since then his only sighting with the top team was as an unused sub once.

The loan deal was supposed to help Watt mature, on and off the pitch, and get the game time which he needed to push on again after his initial dramatic impact - when he scored against Barcelona in the Champions League - badly waned.

But, despite scoring eight goals in his 17 appearances for Lierse, he looks destined to spend the final period of his loan spell frozen out by Menzo, whose public criticism and disciplining of the player has not gone down well with Lennon.

The Hoops boss is in regular contact with Watt, but it would appear the player has a better line of communication with his Celtic manager than he does with the coach at his present club.

Nearer home, Lennon is waiting to discover if Darnell Fisher will require surgery on the knee problem which is currently sidelining him.

The 19-year-old full-back is out of contract at the end of the season.

He is desperate to use the closing games of his debut campaign - during which he has made enough appearances in the first team to win a championship medal - to get a new deal, so the injury could not have happened at a more inopportune time.

Lennon said: "Darnell has a knee problem which may require surgery. We will see how that settles over the next week."

There is better news with Derk Boerrigter, however, and Lennon expects the Dutchman to be pushing for a place again very soon.

"Derk's got an abdominal strain," said Lennon. "But he may start training again this week. I don't expect any of the others who are out to be back for this weekend's game at Tannadice."