Celtic are facing transfer dilemma and Brendan Rodgers plus Mark Lawwell have to walk the wire carefully - Chris Sutton

Kyogo Furuhashi is the top striker at Celtic and has proved his worth. The Japanese is first pick and rightly so.

Brendan Rodgers keeps saying he wants quality and adding a player as capable as Kyogo in the striking department seems the ideal scenario. We know all of this. We’ve been hearing it for weeks. But here's the thing. Unless you are signing someone to take Kyogo’s place in the starting side, how are you going to convince a proven player with quality to come to your club to sit on the bench and play second fiddle? More pertinently, how much are you going to have to pay to get a guy who dislodges Kyogo?

This is a dilemma facing Celtic right now. The fans are screaming for signings. The manager and his captain Callum McGregor are screaming for signings. But I can imagine it's a tricky sell. Or buy, if you prefer. There are three types available at this stage of the season. The first are the ones who are playing out of their skin. Everyone wants them and you better be shelling out the top dollar if you want them.

The second lot are the guys who aren’t getting games and want out to play. The first question you ask is with them is: Why aren’t you playing? Why is your club letting you go? Aren't you that good? Sure there are exceptions, but, mainly, the ones hunting escape routes are doing it because they aren’t good enough to get into their own team. I give you Gustaf Lagerbielke, Marco Tillo, Yuki Kobayashi, et al.

The third batch are the kids getting loaned-out, the unknowns and the, whisper it, projects. Now you can get good ones. There are plum examples in recent Januarys for Celtic. Let’s be honest, Reo Hatate was, at the time, a near project. He didn’t have a lot of game-time in his career, he wasn’t really