Brendan Rodgers made Celtic transfer power play to remove grey areas but now must be judged - Chris Sutton

Celtic's AGM this week was pretty standard fare but the biggest takeaway for once didn’t come from the directors.

It came from Brendan Rodgers – and his insistence he had the final say on all signings. That is the way it should be but there has been a sort of grey area around Celtic’s transfer activity, and not just in Rodgers’ second spell in charge. It gets painted by some that the manager is somehow given the players to work with and he just gets on with the job of coaching them.

That has been a sharp contrast to the Ange Postecoglou era, where he was adamant that any player coming in was fully his man and that he’d stand or fall on his transfers. In fairness, he got an awful lot right in the market so it was never an issue. But with Rodgers it all felt a little hazy when it came to recruitment. You go back to his first time at the helm when he talked about having a million wingers when Maryan Shved was signed by the club.

Even in the summer there was a sense Celtic were hoovering up all these prospects for the manager to get on with it. But that has now been put to bed. Rodgers says he has the final say on all incomings. He’s taken it on his shoulders and he can now be judged on the players he brings in. And that is fair enough.

What might be tougher is his statement about not bringing in more so-called project players in January. I’m sure Celtic fans will be glad to hear the manager wants to recruit proven, experienced players who will improve the starting line up. Doing it is another matter though.

It’s also a slight change in message. In the summer it was all about the model, signing players with potential, getting them young and relatively cheaply with a view to polishing them up and eventually moving them on