Celtic: Brendan Rodgers says membership will assessment switch window after failing to land striker to interchange Kyogo | Soccer Information

Brendan Rodgers says Celtic will assessment their switch technique after failing to usher in a alternative for striker Kyogo Furuhashi.

The Hoops boss made it clear that he needed somebody to take over from the Japan ahead who departed for Ligue 1 facet Rennes final month for £10m after hitting 85 objectives for the Hoops following his arrival in the summertime of 2021.

Winger Jota returned to Celtic 18 months after leaving, and Jeffrey Schlupp signed late on mortgage from Crystal Palace till the tip of the season however when the winter window closed on Monday evening there was no new primary striker.

Celtic are actually left with simply Adam Idah as the only senior centre-forward on the books with 21-year-old Johnny Kenny, who just lately returned from a mortgage spell with Shamrock Rovers, as back-up. Daizen Maeda may also play by way of the center, though he’s suspended for the primary leg of the Champions League play-off towards Bayern Munich subsequent week.

Talking forward of the rearranged Premiership recreation towards Dundee at Parkhead on Wednesday evening, the place Schlupp must be out there, Rodgers assessed the switch window and insisted he is not going to enable any disappointment to taint his total pleasure at being supervisor in what guarantees to be one other massively profitable season.

He stated: “It is one thing that I stated clearly we needed to do, we needed to have that assist on the high finish of the sphere. We did not handle to do this.

“I do not need to pin blame on anybody right here. I believe as a collective, it wasn’t supreme, the way it ended for us.

“So we have to, as a club, now go away and look at that like we do every window.

“There wasn’t an amazing deal taking place if you go searching, however actually all I used to be involved about was for Celtic and what I wanted to occur right here. So we are going to look into that and transfer ahead.

“There’s so many different facets to the transfer, obviously the identification of a player, then convincing the player to come, which, in the main, is never a problem for here.

“However we simply weren’t fairly in a position to get a deal carried out so it is one thing that we as a membership, we’ll assessment the entire course of after which look to be higher once more in the summertime.

“There’s no doubt that the squad is lighter.

“However I simply will work laborious. We’ll focus in on this subsequent 4 months, actually thrilling interval for us, and we’ll have a tighter squad, but additionally a squad that’s enhancing in improvement.

“I think there’s still improvement in the squad, but it’ll be tighter than it was before.”

Rodgers understands the frustrations of these Celtic followers who consider Kyogo shouldn’t have been allowed to go away earlier than a alternative was in place.

The Northern Irishman stated: “Some people will say that, but you don’t have the depth of knowledge that I have on the player and working with him, and going back to the summer.

“It is a honest sufficient factor to say, you’ll be able to very simply say, ‘nicely, it is best to actually have somebody within the door earlier than you let him go’.

“But there was a situation with that player, which meant that wasn’t the case, and that was something that we had been running for a number of months, not just for the few days and before he left.

“I repeat, if a participant doesn’t need to be right here, then we do one of the best deal and transfer on.

“I think we brought in some really good players.

“May we’ve carried out higher? Yeah, we may.

“However, we work with the players here now. I think that is the focus. I don’t really want to be looking back.

“I am not going to turn out to be annoyed now and kill my pleasure of working right here day-after-day on the membership by considering of what may have been.

“We can’t affect that now. We can review it and move on.”