Celtic 'have to put right' recruitment - Rodgers

Brendan Rodgers says Celtic "have to put right" their recruitment strategy arsenic nan head believes transfers return "a batch longer" than he would like.

In his pre-match question and reply pinch BBC Scotland up of Sunday's 3-0 conclusion of St Mirren, Rodgers revealed midfielder Matt O'Riley was connected nan verge of joining Brighton for what is expected to beryllium a important fee.

He hopes to beryllium fixed immoderate of those costs to fortify his squad successful nan last week of nan transportation model but stressed that an overhaul of nan existent argumentation will beryllium required regardless.

"There are a number of things I won’t spell into here, but it’s decidedly something, having travel backmost successful and gone done 3 windows now, we person to put correct arsenic a shot club," Rodgers said.

"We shouldn’t person been getting into this past week successful nan position we're in. That's nan reality. However, that's thing for america for aft this window."

Rodgers has brought successful goalkeepers Kasper Schmeichel and Viljami Sinisalo this summer, while striker Adam Idah and midfielder Paulo Bernardo person completed imperishable moves aft past season's indebtedness spells.

However, he has talked of nan need, successful particular, for other screen astatine left-back, cardinal defence, up beforehand and now 2 midfielders to compensate for O'Riley's exit.

"As I said, we'll get nan players successful that we want - we don't request to manufacture our ain accent erstwhile there's nary need," he said.

"That’s nan reality. However, that's thing for america for aft this window. We want to develop, we want to improve. We can't beryllium happy conscionable to make our money and build our cookware because nan bottommost statement is connected nan pitch."

Rodgers believes nan nine owes it to nan supporters to build connected their success.

"The supporters, they salary nan money," nan head said. "I look backmost to nan Covid times here, nan Celtic supporters sold nan stadium retired and they weren't allowed successful it, truthful we person nan work to put nan champion squad connected nan pitch.

"We tin do it by Friday, fortify nan squad, we’ll beryllium successful a really, really bully place, but we want to fortify and person that depth. It's taken a batch longer than I would person liked arsenic nan shot manager."