Brendan Rodgers addressed the Matt O’Riley transfer situation as it currently stands, re-stating the Celtic transfer model that develops players and allows them to leave if the offer meets the club’s financial expectations.

The Celtic manager was joined by new signing Kasper Schmeichel who talked about Celtic’s huge history of winning as he eyes some additional honours in the twilight of his playing career.

On the O’Riley situation as things stand the Celtic manager had this to say:

“We’re all quite relaxed about it. Every player has a value but we see him as a really important player and while he’s here we’ll continue to develop him and improve. There’s no update. We’re fairly relaxed, you saw him in the game the other night.

“He’s working well and is focus. Naturally when you’re a good young player who’s committed and professional as he is he will get attention. He’s working so well but there’s nothing to report on him I think we all understand the people close to Celtic understand the model Celtic works.

“Matt’s been at the club for three years he’s developed into the player he has and he knows the privilege it is to play for Celtic and of course naturally how it works is the player get that opportunity to move on. Celtic is a club where you can move on but you don’t have to and it’s a very difficult club to move on from.

“But naturally with the wages that are on offer for players then that makes it a real challenge for Celtic to compete at that level. But what I’ve seen with Matt is he’s a first-class professional. He’s a really humble guy who’s really devoted to his profession and he knows what he has here.”

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