What it might do though, is give them a kick up the backside to bring in, not just development players, but those who are ready to go into the first team and take Celtic up another level.
He wants to play week in week out and that isn’t guaranteed at Rangers. Ianis and his agent have been looking at things in the last week or so and have had an ongoing discussion.
For additional support on Saturday he will have Andrew Dallas, also from Lanarkshire, in the VAR room to ensure that he stays on the straight and narrow towards building a long and lucrative career in refereeing.
A clunky blue line was drawn across the pitch, bent in places and clearly showing Watkins’ shoulder goal side. Nicholson will probably put it down to teething issues.
Soon after the VAR verdict was delivered Viaplay Sport briefly showed the image used with their commentary team not convinced either way.
With the significance of the defeat it seems that no questions were asked after the match to Brendan Rodgers about injuries sustained on the Killie pitch.
The actual figure will be between the manager and the club hierarchy, but a ballpark figure of £30million was mentioned in the summer. Since then, the champions have sold Filipe Jota and Carl Starfelt.
Don Robertson was on VAR duty, a decision was taken in less than two minutes, to the surprise of the Kilmarnock striker his goal was allowed to stand.
Alan Muir had a good view of it, according to the Viaplay Sports commentary team a VAR review was carried out within 30 seconds without a break in play.
Before joining Celtic McCarthy had started 10 EPL matches and came off the bench six times during the 20/21 Lockdown season but he is posed to leave Celtic with just four SPFL starts to his name.