Within a fortnight of Postecoglou leaving Rodgers was back at the club but it is hard to believe that he is in charge despite his recent claims over recruitment.
In the bigger picture he distanced himself from recruitment during the summer, putting his trust in the brilliant judgement of Mark Lawwell to deliver the players required to make progress.
Returning to Celtic in the summer surely things would be different, surely Rodgers had done his due diligence, especially with two Lawwell’s now in senior positions.
Losing the argument Spiers grabbed at the suggestion that Kenny Macintyre would never suggest a bias in favour of Celtic. Absolutely desperate stuff.
It is a decent point but not the main one, Spiers knows the fate of Jim Spence and the true blue credentials of Kenny Macintyre, Alasdair Lamont, Jane Lewis, Steven Thompson and the lads at Pacific Quay.
When Rodgers returned to Celtic in the summer Glen Driscoll was the only coach that he brought in, having had six months to assess the situation he’ll have a couple of names in mind that can add to his existing coaching team of John Kennedy and Gavin Strachan.
For a while Barton cashed in on the myth that he had turned his life around, that he had been misinterpreted, cynically hitching on to the Hillsborough issues to develop credibility.
Celtic have reaped the benefit of that with the 23-year-old clearly appreciating the work that Oh Hyeon-gyu puts in on the training ground with some dividents last night.
The only downside was the substitution of Cameron Carter-Vickers at half-time, afterwards Brendan Rodgers revealed that it was a precaution against a tightening of the hamstring.
I’ve got closer to the operations over the last six months, kicking the tyres etc. That £10.5m has to go away.