Well, as Mick Jagger crooned, you can’t always get what you want; but if you try sometimes, you just might find you get what you need. It was about as rock and roll as it got at Celtic Park yesterday.

The much desired glamour signing, the marquee name, did not materialise.

And yet, while last night’s deadline came and went without the midfielder that Brendan Rodgers ideally would have liked, it was hard not to take a long look at Celtic’s squad and argue that they are far better placed now than they were went the window opened.

The highest net transfer outlay since 2008-09 - £2.29m - Celtic's business is more than sufficient for domestic duties this season.

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The business they have done – Moussa Dembele, Kolo Toure, Scott Sinclair, Dorus De Vries and Crstian Gamboa – have made, with the latter’s exception, an almost immediate impact on Rodgers’ Celtic team. De Vries has played just once, but the timing of his arrival into the starting XI suggests that his displacement of Craig Gordon may well be permanent.

Given that De Vries was handed the gloves immediately before the game against Rangers and the first game in Group C of the UEFA Champions League, it is hard not to see that Rodgers has had him ear-marked as his first choice stopper for some time.

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Dembele, Toure and Sinclair have already played a role in getting the club into the UEFA Champions League this season, a significant yardstick of success in a season, no matter how early the campaign is.

Dembele, at 20, will grow into Celtic but the mettle he showed when he netted his first goal for the club against FC Astana in the most dramatic of circumstances suggests he has the required backbone to cope with the expectation levels at the club.

Toure has shown, in flashes, the calmness and experience that Celtic have missed at the back while Sinclair looks as though he is keen to make up for lost time in Glasgow. Saidy Janko’s horror showing in Israel has prompted Gamboa’s arrival.

Most Celtic fans might have wanted more, but at the minute Rodgers’ hand remains strong; he can conceivably argue that the money he has spent since arriving has made a positive difference and he has yet to get a signing wrong.

Given his reputation for diligence and attention to detail, that will bode well when he starts his preparations for what he wants in the January window.

There has been strength added to every position, with the new spine expected to hold Celtic up now as they embark on a Champions League group that contains the heavyweights of Barcelona and Manchester City as well as Borussia Monchengladbach.

A central midfielder was the one other player Celtic were crying out for – and the one player they really could yet do with - but the going rate is not cheap.

James McCarthy’s name caused much excitement among the Hoops support, but the Republic of Ireland midfielder currently enjoys a take home pay packet worth 60k. Champions League money goes stretches far but it is not elastic.

The move of Moussa Sissoko to Everton late last night prompted fresh waves of speculation about McCarthy’s situation, but even before that collapsed at the death and the player penned a five-year deal with Tottenham, McCarthy - who goes under the knife on Friday to correct a groin issue - was always going to be a stretch for Celtic.

Similarly, in an ideal world there would have been another striker introduced to the fray as back-up for Leigh Griffiths and Dembele.

In any case, the idea that a manager needs at least a couple of transfer windows to build the team he wants is the modern received wisdom. And it is not just in who he might identify in adding to the strength in his own squad, but in trimming some of the excess baggage currently at Lennoxtown.

One of the first observations Rodgers made when he arrived at the club was that the squad was too big to work with. Its numbers have not diminished too much.

Charlie Mulgrew has moved onto Blackburn Rovers but in truth that seemed entirely outwith Celtic’s circle yesterday; the utility player has been training at Lennoxtown but there was never any suggestion that he would have been part of the rebuilding process that Rodgers has undertaken at the club.

Jozo Simunovic’s situation was far more interesting. The player has made just 17 appearances for Celtic after signing at the end of the window last season in a £5m deal.

Injuries meant he has made only sporadic appearances for the club and a complicated knee injury in January has kept him sidelined since then. The Croatian defender was set for Torino before a stand-off ensued between the two clubs, with the Italians wanting a loan deal and Celtic holding out for a permanent move before a collapse last night.

Had that deal gone through it’s believed that Celtic could have made a play for Jason Denayer again, but the Belgian defender opted for a loan move to Sunderland.

Simunovic has returned to Glasgow and it remains to be seen if he can make an impression on Rodgers.

Emilio Izaguirre remains at the club, sensible in some ways as he offers cover for Kieran Tierney but the likes of Gary Mackay-Steven, Stuart Armstrong, Liam Henderson and Kris Commons all might feel a sense of frustration as the window closed last night.

Efe Ambrose, a defender who has carried the can for much of Celtic’s defensive frailties, is believed to have turned down a £300k move to Standard Liege.

For Rodgers, though, while he would has wanted more there is a sense that the business he has done should bode well. For now.