Celtic selling Kyogo sends a clear signal and it's not a good one so here's exactly why I don't get it – Chris Sutton

Selling Kyogo Furuhashi feels like Celtic have just put their hands up and admitted there’s a ceiling on their Champions League ambitions.

That the end of the road has been reached in Europe this term, whilst an unnecessary risk has been taken at home. If you wanted to be ultra-critical, you could even say it’s money over magic. Celtic deserve big congratulations for qualifying into the Champions League play-off stages. Brendan Rodgers and the players have really delivered at the top table and it’s been brilliant to see after years of underachievement at the top level.

But they can aim for more. And the title isn’t won either. I get annoyed when people say it is all over. It’s why I just don’t get this Kyogo sale. There is a right time and a wrong time to leave.

Rodgers said Kyogo wanted to go. I get that. Fair enough, sell him in the summer, but why now in the midst of a campaign where more can be achieved? After three-and-a-half years, he clearly wanted a new challenge, but that’s not his call to make. Not when under contract. Yes you can go, but when we decide. Not you.

I’m not in the dressing room, but Kyogo doesn’t seem like a bad egg, or the sort to cause unrest. Callum McGregor said recently he was still a happy wee guy. Rodgers said this issue has been on the go for a couple of months, but Kyogo was still delivering in the past fortnight with big goals at Ross County a fortnight ago and being dangerous against Young Boys, so it’s not like the tools had been packed away.

The manager also says he fits in perfectly to how the team wants to play, so surely just tell him he can go in the summer. Not at a time when there is more to aim for. It’s as if Celtic have reached the play-offs for the Champions League and now