A new broom sweeps clean but among the de-cluttering exercise that Brendan Rodgers is about to embark on at Celtic Park, there is always a belief that value can still be found in the rough.

With a bloated and lop-sided squad, it is inevitable that there will be a significant reduction in numbers this summer as a new regime checks into the club.

But while many of those on the fringes will be moved on, the jury could still be out on one or two names.

James Forrest was a favourite of Neil Lennon after the Irishman plucked him from the development squad and put him into the first-team.

The initial impact was immediate, with the winger’s first season ending with him voted the SPFA Young Player of the Year.

That was followed up with reports that Tottenham Hotspur were scouting him.

There were also stories about him being one of the few scouts touted for a place in the British Olympic team and he was generally regarded as one of the bright up and coming talents of his generation.

Since then, however, he has been on a downward spiral. Injuries wrecked havoc on his playing time with Celtic and Lennon in particular keen to get to the cause of the repeated hamstring injuries.

It reached the point where a different car was suggested by the club and the player moved from his home in Ayrshire to be nearer Lennoxtown in response to a fear the daily commute was impacting his physical condition.

Off the field, though, there were instances which drew the wrong kind of attention and, now at 24, there is a feeling that Forrest is a lost cause to Celtic.

The winger turned down a four-year contract offer from the Parkhead side – after weeks in which his agent did not answer calls from the club – and former Hoops boss Ronny Deila eventually insisted that a line had been drawn and Celtic would not be putting another deal in front of the Scotland internationalist.

Yet, Forrest’s contract situation is unusual in that it runs to December this year.

And while Alex Neil has been credited with an interest in taking Forrest to Norwich, unless there is a concrete offer for the player then he will be back at Lennoxtown with the rest of the Celtic players for the last week of June.

Former Hoops icon Lubomir Moravcik believes that much will simply come down to the player’s attitude and what frame of mind he is when pre-season training resumes.

“He has to decide himself what he wants,” he said. “When Martin O’Neill came into the club and took over from John Barnes there was a lot of excitement from the players because there was just a very strong feeling that things were going to be very different.

“I honestly don’t know if that is the same now because I am not at the club. But at that time we had a lot of players who wanted to be a part of it.

"Some didn’t. Mark Viduka moved on but many players who weren’t used so much suddenly made big impacts- Stiliyan Petrov, Johan Mjallby and Bobby Petta.

“Nobody ever knows what a new manager is thinking. He might have already decided that he doesn’t have a place for him or wants someone else in that position.

"But the player himself, if he is back at the club for the start of the season, will have to make a decision whether he wants to be part of it or not.

“He is at an age where maybe he wants to play somewhere else because he has been at Celtic for all of his career.

"But we haven’t seen the best of him for a long time, maybe because of injury or maybe because of other reasons.

"He himself has to find out what he needs to do to fulfil the potential that he showed as a young player. But so much comes down to attitude and what you want to give.

"A new manager means it is a new start for everyone. He will look at the squad, will probably speak to everyone face-to-face and it comes down to what you want as a player."

Moravcik expects to be back in Glasgow in August for the beginning of the season and is anticipating seeing a vibrant Celtic Park on his return.

“I don’t know much about Brendan Rodgers, but he seems to have got a lot of supporters very excited,” he said. “That is a great thing.

“When you want to be playing in European football and getting into the group stages of the Uefa Champions League you want to feel as though the whole club is behind you. If you have a full stadium then it helps you so much.

“As a player you take so much of that energy.

"I would love to see Celtic back in the Champions League. I was part of the team that beat Ajax and that feeling when the whistle blew at Celtic Park and we were going into that competition, the best in the world, for the first time, was just amazing. It is where a club of Celtic's size deserves to be.

"Like so many players who played for the club, I have a little bit of Celtic in my heart. I always want them to do well and hopefully now we can see some big nights again in Glasgow."