Given that Celtic have been successful in their first remit of making it into the group stage of the Champions league, I do think there was an anticipation that we would see at least one other big signing come into the club on deadline day.

It didn’t materialise and it’s fair to say there was an element of some frustration about it for some of the supporters.

The fact that James McCarthy has had to go under the knife might have played a part in the fact that there was nothing from Celtic there, while West Brom were reluctant to allow James Morrison to go.

The one thing, though, I would say when it comes to criticising the club for how they went about their business on the final day – it is the same for every club. 

Celtic are not alone in spending the last day of the window slightly frazzled and trying to get players in and others out.

Clubs need to balance their own squads and the only way a player is allowed to go out is if there is another ready to come in and take his position. So I wouldn’t complain too much about the fact that they spent the last day trying to bolster their squad.

The other aspect is that they have done a fair bit of business in the window – and brought players in who made the difference when it came to getting into the group stage.

Kolo Toure, Scott Sinclair and Moussa Dembele have all made an immediate impression and we’ll see what Cristian Gamboa and Dorus De Vries bring as the weeks go on.

The one thing that I was surprised about this week was that Celtic were prepared to allow Jozo Simunovic to go to the Serie A.

I know the proposed move to Torino fell through at the last minute but I was a little taken aback at the fact they were willing to let him leave.

He is a player that I believe still has something to offer and in the games I saw him last season I thought he brought some composure to the backline. 
He has been injured for a long time now but he is coming back to fitness and he is a guy who will provide strong cover, or will even be up there challenging for a start.

That his move feel through gives him another bite of the cherry in Glasgow and it will be interesting to see just how that pans out now.

Saidy Janko has done the right thing in making the switch down to Barnsley because I think we could all appreciate just how exposed he was in that game against Hapoel Be’er Sheva over in Israel.

Ideally, there would have been one or two others who would have gone out of the door because the squad still looks a little bit overloaded.  The one thing that we have seen repeatedly in the transfer window is that it is so much easier to say what you want than it is to do it. 

The money that was changing hands south of the border was phenomenal and there are so many factors that come into play.

I don’t think the lack of further additions was because of a lack of effort by the club but now it’s just a case of seeing how far the squad takes them.

Domestically I think we would all expect Celtic to prevail given the strength of the squad that they have available to them but in the Champions League, it is a different story.

And yet, with a wee bit of luck you just never know what can happen when you are in there. You want to be competitive and see what happens. If Celtic can harness the home support and take points from their three home games then you just never know. It is far harder to do anything on the road in the Champions League so what you do at home is vital to where you fare in the competition.

Where there is a feeling that Celtic will live to regret not getting another midfielder in – and I also felt they could have done with one other striker –remains to be seen. But the bottom line is that this is the squad they have and they need to get on with it and see what kind of impression they are capable of leaving on the competition.

They have done the hard bit by getting there and now it is about what they can do. 
They know the squad they have to work with and now it comes down to getting the best out of them.