Brendan Rodgers has Celtic transfer trick up his sleeve as boss backed to start quality hunt in familiar territory

The Premiership champions have been knocked out of Europe and the boss has been left calling for quality.

Brendan Rodgers has been tipped to wheel out a tried and tested signing method this January in a return to how he kicked his first Celtic reign off.

The Irishman has made a plea for additional quality after a 2-0 defeat to Lazio ended their Champions League campaign at the group stage again. Celtic have not won in 15 matches at Europe's top table and currently sit with one point in Group E ahead of the final matchday at home to Feyenoord.

Fans have pleaded with the Parkhead board to unlock some of the cash in the bank to sign ready-made players for Rodgers to work with, instead of players for the future. And former midfielder Simon Donnelly sees arrivals in the mould of Scott Sinclair possibly coming in. He told SSB: "Brendan has touched on it himself, quality wise they are not at that Champions League level. That is fair for everyone to say. You have to give him the next two transfer windows.

"I can only sit here and speculate about the signings for the summer. Was the process of a lot of them already there when Brendan came back on board again?

"I look back again to the first time he was here when he signed guys like Scott Sinclair, because it was a field he knew and they came and had a big impact. I expected him to bring one or two guys like that from working in the Premier League.

"Maybe that is where he goes to look at for this transfer window. Time will tell but he's had to work with the guys that are there just now. There's no guarantee to it. I just thought with him coming back that would be a field he'd look at"

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