In a TV interview after the sport, Rodgers was extra phlegmatic, mentioning that the evaluation of Celtic's summer season enterprise needn't start till the window closes late on Monday, 1 September.
That's nonetheless greater than two weeks away, so time is on their aspect.
Keep in mind that, at this stage final season, Auston Trusty, Arne Engels and Luke McCowan had but to reach and Adam Idah was nonetheless holding a shawl above his head.
“In fact, I might have cherished to have had different gamers in,” Rodgers stated on Premier Sports activities. “We'd like reinforcements, however I do not wish to hold harping on about it. I need not beg for gamers that we'd like.”
So who're these gamers? Or moderately, in what positions are Celtic brief?
Bonner talked about the necessity to establish cowl for totemic captain Callum McGregor in midfield and his considerations a few lack of choices at left-back to ease the strain on Tierney.
However his main considerations lie within the ahead areas.
“We nonetheless have to discover a striker who places the ball at the back of the online,” he stated.
“Johnny Kenny performed tonight and he did not actually have one on the right track, regardless that there have been a lot of crosses. Shin Yamada got here on and did not have as many alternatives to get on the tip of issues. Possibly it is simply the best way Celtic play.
“Have they obtained sufficient within the broad areas? They take off James Forrest and placed on Nygren. He does not actually play broad; he performs inside. In order that's perhaps one thing else that also needs to be answered.”
