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Australia are set to add insult to injury to Celtic by resting Tom Rogic for their final warm-up game before the Asian Cup.

Celtic are unhappy that they won't be able to call upon the inspirational midfielder for the Old Firm showdown at Ibrox against Rangers.

Rogic posted a social media message to apologise to Celtic fans for missing the game and insisted the decision had been taken out of his hands.

Australia had stressed they wanted all of their squad to prepare for the defence of the Asian Cup in the UAE and ordered Rogic to miss the Old Firm game.

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They face Oman tomorrow in their final friendly before the start of the tournament, but manager Graham Arnold has revealed that Rogic may not now even be used in the match.

He said: "I'm looking to get some minutes for those players who haven't had much involvement at their clubs recently.

"The position with Tom is that it's all over now. He's here and he's happy.

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"Of course he wanted to play in the Old Firm derby and that's completely understandable but you can't please everyone.

"I would also point out that I had a couple of phone calls from other managers to thank me for letting the players stay behind and play that one extra match to help them win games so I made a lot of managers happy.

"All I can say is that the whole situation was explained well in advance and at the same time I had one rule and I saw that as the fairest way."