ROY KEANE has slammed Celtic after their Champions League drubbing in Barcelona and said it’s time for a change of mindset at Parkhead.

The former Manchester United and Ireland captain, who had a short spell at Celtic 10 years ago, says he was astounded to see the celebrations in Brendan Rodgers' camp when they qualified for the group stages after a 2-0 defeat to Hapoel Beer Sheva in Israel last month.

“They scraped through and I thought they’d actually won the thing,” blasted Keane last night on ITV’s Champions League highlights show.

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He added: “They’ve got to change the mindset. I’m on about the qualifying games when they were scraping through then celebrating like they’d won the b****y thing.”

Celtic qualified for the money-spinning group stage for the first time in three years with the 5-4 aggregate win over Beer Sheva which followed a 3-1 victory against Lincoln Red Imps of Gibraltar and a 3-2 win over Kazahk side Astana.

But they were given a rude awakening in the opening Group C match in the Nou Camp on Tuesday night when Barcelona ran riot 7-0.

Keane said Rodgers' men only beat "the worst Rangers teams I’ve seen for a long time” last weekend.

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And on the Barca thrashing he blasted: “I know it’s difficult after a game and if you have an off night in Barcelona you are in big trouble.

“But on one hand we are being told that Celtic are a great club, great traditions, great history and they go and lose 7-0 to Barcelona and people almost say ‘well these things happen it’s acceptable’.

“All I hear when people talk about Celtic is about winning the league but I think they need to do a lot better in Europe. It’s easier said than done of course and this time round it’s more difficult with the group they are in.

“But even in the qualifying games they were poor. They scraped through and didn’t win any of the away games. I think the whole mindset has to change particularly away from home being the whipping boys of Europe.

“It’s Celtic, a huge club, they need to do a lot better and even when they qualified for this group the celebrations were way over the top. They scraped through and I thought they’d actually won the competition. People were hugging each other - the manager, the coaches, the players - they should be expecting to do well.

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“In the last number of years when they have been involved in Europe they have struggled and lesser teams than Celtic have done well.”

“A lot of these players for Celtic are international players. It’s not Altrincham it’s Celtic and they’ve got to do much better.

“They’ve got to change the mindset. I’m on about the qualifying games when they were scraping through then celebrating like they’d won the b****y thing.”