Transfer deadline day is in the books, and all was quite on the Celtic front. All but a proposed £3 million move of defender Jozo Simunovic to Torino being called off due to terms not being agreed upon and Everton’s unwillingness to part with James McCarthy that is.
With the transfer window now closed throughout Europe, Brendan Rodgers’ first squad at Celtic Park is set and it certainly has plenty of his own stamp all over it.
In what was a busy summer of moves for Celtic ahead of play in the Champions League playoffs, Rodgers went out to shape his squad earlier than most and he ended up signing five new players while offloading a total of 10 players.
Rodgers stepped in to a bloated squad, with what seemed like 20 midfielders and needed to trim the overall size of this squad while also finding a way to improve the quality of the squad at the same time. Given that task, did Rodgers succeed?
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