Brendan Rodgers completes his Celtic rehab but a brass neck will never replace Kyogo's golden boot – Hugh Keevins

When Celtic’s Champions League game against Young Boys was over on Wednesday night, I was tempted to call my old friend Fraser Wishart, the head of PFA Scotland, to ask him if a new category was to be introduced at the Players Union’s annual awards ceremony.

I thought it could be called the Brass Neck of the Season trophy and I wanted to nominate Celtic’s Adam Idah to be the first recipient of the prize. Adam was actually the third last person to touch the ball that created Celtic’s thoroughly merited victory against the Swiss, but he ran off to take the acclaim of the crowd with no visible sign of a blush anywhere to be seen.

Meanwhile, the stadium announcer was testing the crowd’s credulity by announcing the Irishman’s name as the owner of the goal his own mother wouldn’t have credited him with scoring. Not that they cared, of course, but the fans will pay more attention to that particular role in Brendan Rodgers’ team now that Kyogo Furuhashi has gone to Rennes, and taken his eighty-five goals from 165 Celtic appearances with him. That’s one goal in every two games, a ratio Idah couldn’t begin to dream about on all known form. His goal-scoring average is more likely to be described as once in a while rather than able to be called anywhere near prolific, and that’s why the onus is now on Celtic to replace the Japanese icon with a suitable replacement before this transfer window closes next week.

The economics of the situation are laudable, ten million pounds for a now thirty year old player who cost much less than that three and a half years ago is not to be argued over. And Rodgers could be nothing less than pleased with the other business that’s been conducted in recent days.

In the space of the week gone by, Brendan