Back in August Rodgers neatly distanced himself from the summer signings, explaining that he has to work with and coach the players provided by the club. Players or agents that impress Mark Lawwell.
Getting six players out and bringing in two or three first team contenders is the task facing Lawwell for January, that work should be well underway.
Whatever strategy Lawwell is working to a team picture that stretched to 33 players was released last week which is probably 10 too many
One match into a Champions League campaign the ambitions of June and July are in tatters, this Celtic squad isn’t about to advance in Europe, matching last season’s tally of two points is far from certain.
Left-back remains a priority heading into the final hours of the window, with Celtic also repelling late interest from Leeds United for midfielder Matt O’Riley.
And then we come to summer 2023, Postecoglou is no longer involved as Mark grabs his big opportunity, a Lawwell family member in charge of transfer activity. What could possibly go wrong?
If the likes of ‘Carter-Vickers, Jota, Abada, Carl Starfelt, Matt O’Riley, Joe Hart, Josip Juranovic, Giakoumakis’ were all on the system and known to Lawwell Junior why has he handed Rodgers a batch of projects from Australia, South Korea and Norway including an £800,000 midfielder from the South Korean Second…
As a Honduran, Palma will need certain paperwork in place which suggests that Celtic only decided very recently to make their move for the ARIS winger.
Rodgers watched these developments from afar, raised his concerns when approached by Dermot Desmond and was reassured by Michael Nicholson and Chris McKay that things were now being done very differently.
Harking back to the good old days isn’t going to do Rodgers any favours in a dressing room full of treble winners.