Celtic transfer window shouldn't be this complicated and continuing neglect of one position is unacceptable – Chris Sutton

Greg Taylor on the injured list. Six days until the transfer window closes and not a left-back deal completed to cover the absence.

It’s not as if Brendan Rodgers hasn’t known for a long time he needed one. If he and the recruitment team couldn’t see it as far back as last summer, they weren’t looking very hard. In these scenarios, I can fully understand the frustration of the Celtic fans. I’ll get to the issue of quality in a minute but not even managing to get back-up in the door isn’t really acceptable.

Securing Cameron Carter-Vickers on a new deal is great news. He’s been the best defender in Scotland for a while, but you can’t get away from the fact there are areas of concern within the team. Everyone thinks Celtic will just roll over Ross County today. They should, but that’s not the point. The point is this is they have left themselves light. Alexandro Bernabei hasn’t been trusted for a while and this was the one position that urgently needed to be sorted out. The fact it’s not yet been done by now beggars belief.

Is it on Rodgers? Is it on Mark Lawwell and his team? Is it on the board? For me, it’s on the recruitment side and the facts are this market seems to be more complicated for Celtic than it ought to be.

Rodgers has spoken about quality and not adding to the squad for the sake of it. That’s fine if you are talking about improvement. But he said himself last week Celtic had to be mindful of a loading issue regarding Taylor and it was about support and back-up.

So are you telling me there isn’t a single left-back better than Bernabei out there and available within the confines of the Celtic model? Come off it. Taylor doesn’t cut it defensively in the Champions League and you should always be trying to