Last week Brendan Rodgers revealed that he wants to have three strikers at the club and that he had offered Rocco Vata, the teenager who spent over a decade at the club coming through the Celtic youth system, the role of the third striker in the Celtic squad for the new season.

That would have seen Vata, who instead opted to sign for Watford, being behind Kyogo and presumably Adam Idah in the manager’s plans.

They say two of of three ain’t bad and you can be sure that Brendan Rodgers would agree if the club can get the Adam Idah transfer from Norwich City moving, amid the current stalemate over the transfer fee. No-one frustrates in a transfer window quite like Celtic, or so it seems anyway.

Brendan returned to this point after the 4-0 win over DC United in Washington on Saturday evening, local time. He’s already got over the Vata decision and wished the boy all the best, and as things stand has only Kyogo in his squad as one of his three strikers, although Daizen Maeda could fulfil one of the spots if required.

Brendan explained his thinking, as reported by Football Scotland: “I think my ideal scenario was to have three, was to have Kyogo, one other one and bring through a young player. That was the role we came up for at Rocco.

“It’s very difficult for a club of this size to have three number one strikers. You can live with two because we play so many games and the specific nature of the games then we can change it about. Three is very difficult. But I also think for development I want to bring some young, maybe a player from within.

“Rocco was that but he’s moved on. So we may have to look elsewhere. But three is a really good number. Two, I would say to be number one strikers, and one that we can nurture and develop.”

So far Celtic has added goalkeepers Kasper Schmeichel and Viljami Sinisalo but no outfield players with recruitment needs in defence, midfield and obviously up front. Greg Taylor being used as the main player in the yellow away kit launch this morning suggests that he’s staying, so a new contract must be on the cards.

Michel-Ange Balikwisha (winger),Tanner Tessmann (midfielder) and of course the two Celts in waiting Adam Idah and Paulo Bernardo are currently on the manager’s radar.

At the moment the team has NOT been strengthened from last season and it looks like our current prize asset Matt O’Riley is set to be sold for a record breaking fee.

As a support we’ve got to appreciate that the summer is always a difficult transfer window and maybe we’ll have more luck in the winter.

Rinse, reverse and repeat in January…

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