I don’t see the relationship between Brendan Rodgers and Celtic fracturing anytime soon.

There is always a crisis at Celtic whenever there are a couple of results that are off.

Until I had come to Glasgow I don’t think I had appreciated quite how much of a mountain can be made from a mousehole.

This weekend made me raise an eyebrow for a couple of reasons, mainly because of the negativity and chat around the perception that Brendan is ready to walk away from the club.

I just don’t see it at all.

I would never deny that there was frustration in the summer transfer window. I know he was upset at not getting the targets that he wanted. There was clear friction between him and the board, which I think he himself made pretty clear.

Brendan has acknowledged that there was an offer for him from China – but he didn’t take it. He wanted to stay in Glasgow. He believes he still has work to do at the club and he is a man who still enjoys his work.

And my own feeling is that you will see the atonement for this summer’s messy transfer window when we get going again in January.

I think Brendan will get what he wants, obviously within reason, when the window opens again. I also suspect that there have been assurances from the club that will happen.

He knows what it means to manage Celtic and I just don’t see him walking away from it any time soon.

In any period of time at a football club you will have ups and downs. But over the two seasons there have been so few downs at Celtic that when the challenge came it was always going to be blown out of proportion.

Since the minute that Brendan Rodgers walked through the front door at Celtic things have been on the up – both on and off the park.

So he is entitled to be irked that when it came to bringing in the players he wanted that he didn’t get them. I think that point will have been made fairly vociferously.

And I would strongly suspect that by the time January comes around that we’ll see a different Celtic in the window.

People often moan to me that it’s too difficult to get players in during the middle of the season but I disagree. Of the moves I had in my time, I had five of them that came at the turn of the year.

There are opportunities there.

And crucially, Celtic will want to bring in players and offer them the chance to play European football this term.

They are off to Austria later this week to take on Salzburg and I think it has the look of a really tough European game.

They have been backed and are on a run of good results and I do think that you need Celtic to be strong and sensible defensively but also capable of snatching something on the break if and when they get the chance.

The result against Rosenborg gave them an ideal platform to kick off their campaign but they need to build on it. In terms of the bigger picture, they have won their last two games and just building up a bit of momentum now is important.

You want to be able to start getting a bit of fluency and believe back into the team and that comes with playing well, scoring goals and getting the results that you need.

Taking a point on the road in Europe can prove to be major and if Celtic can do that this week – and I don’t think it is an easy ask – then it would give themselves not just a decent start to their Europa League but would also continue what they have built this week.

This has been the first sticky spell that the club have had since Rodgers arrived. And you learn more about the players round about you when the chips are down that you do at any other time.

There have been indications with the wins over St Johnstone and Aberdeen that this team is ready to kick on again now.

I think both of those wins were massive for the club. They might not have been the best that Celtic have played but given what had gone before they were games that would have brought an ill wind had they stumbled again.

There have been some really sobering nights in the Champions League for Celtic but they showed with the performance against Anderlecht last season that they are capable of going and turning it on away from home.

They will need to be tight and be a little streetwise in their play but if they can come away with some to show then it could prove to be a pretty big point.