I don’t think that Celtic should be trying to sever ties with Marvin Compper just yet.

At this moment in time the club need every available player they have as they look at another season that can potentially exceed the 60-games mark.

I don’t think they should be thinking of offloading anyone but rather of adding to the squad. The guy has had a nightmare since he arrived at the club last January in the winter transfer market.

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He has barely played – I think he’s got one competitive appearance against Morton in the Scottish Cup to his name – but he is contracted for another season at the club.

He is an experienced player and you’d like to think that at some point he will get a decent bit of game time in order that we see what he has got.

Whether he has been unlucky or not I don’t know, but I do think that you could do with a pretty big squad especially defensively.

I wouldn’t be too critical of Celtic for not having added another centre-half by now – I still think they will before the window closes – because I am not entirely sure that you can envisage the circumstances that have left them so short for this game against Rosenborg now.

I still also expect that before this window closes that we’ll see John McGinn in a Celtic shirt. The midfielder wants to come, Celtic want him in and sooner rather than later a deal will be done for him. It has become the saga of the summer but you’d put your money on Celtic getting their man.