Brendan Rodgers will have the resources to strengthen in the imminent summer transfer window, but Celtic will maintain a sensible approach to prospective signings.

The Parkhead manager has voiced a wishlist of two or three quality players to strengthen the quality in preparation for another crack at the UEFA Champions League.

Peter Lawwell has confirmed that there will be money available to Rodgers – but he has also insisted that the club won’t deviate from the way it has operated over the last decade.

“We are planning to take it on,” said Lawwell. “That is being discussed at the moment. We will see how it goes but we have our targets and hopefully we will be able to get what we want.

“We will always be restricted. But the reason we are in this position is how we have ran the club. The reason we could get Brendan was that we had the financial capacity to do it, He wanted to come, of course, but we realistically we were able to give him that opportunity to do that.

“That is because of the way we have organised the club for many years so we will continue with that. We will not go mad. It will be the same strategy, the same formula and the beauty in that is that Brendan understands that. We have an outstanding manager and we trust that he can take us forward.”

Just as pertinently is that Celtic keep the players they have. Moussa Dembele attracted the interest of Chelsea in January, while whispers of Liverpool’s interest in Kieran Tierney have grown in recent months. Stuart Armstrong too is yet to sign a new deal.

And Lawwell has acknowledged that there will be some relief when the clock strikes twelve on September 1st.

“You have to be realistic and acknowledge that there is a huge gap between what you can earn as a player in Scotland what you can earn in England,” said Rodgers. “You need to be aware of that but we are a club who do not need to sell. You always feel that at some point there are certain players who will attract attention from the Premier League in England and you have to be prepared for that and keep the pipeline flowing. We would be delighted if the window closed and we have kept every one of our players. That is the plan.

“There is nobody banging on our door and saying they have had enough. It might come – it got to the point with Fraser [Forster] and Virgil [Van Dijk] that they wanted to go and we understood that. You can only say no so often before you lose them.

“Ultimately it sorts itself out. If you have a van Dijk and he is offered four time his salary then obviously it is very difficult to say no all the time because you lose the player. He came here, he developed, he went to Southampton and he looks as though he might get another big move this summer and that proves the point. Victor Wanyama was the same.

“We do not have to sell but we have great players who might at some point want to go to the Premier League and when that happens our job is to make sure that we get as much money as we possibly can for them and that we know we have someone else to come in.

“The point to players coming here is that Brendan is a big attraction, especially for young players because they can come here and they will get better. The reputation is well deserved that he has.”