Complacent Celtic players are coasting but board set tone with attitude that has seeped into dressing room - Chris Sutton

It's perhaps understandable the Celtic squad think the league is in the bag and they can take their foot off the gas – because the people running the club have done exactly the same.

I said it at the time and it’s even more clear now. The decision to sell Kyogo in January and failure to recruit a replacement just smacked of complacency.

The message was that they wanted another striker but, ah well, it wasn’t to be. They assumed the Premiership was done and dusted and they could get by with what they had.

They might be proved right in the end but it’s no wonder that attitude has seeped in to the dressing room.

It’s certainly not a message that comes from the manager though and Brendan Rodgers didn’t mince his words at the weekend after the woeful defeat to St Johnstone.

He admitted he wanted a striker in January – and he definitely doesn’t want anyone in his squad to be coasting. That goes for the board too.

But that is how it looks right now. There’s no other way to square up three defeats in six league games and four since the turn of the year.

And you could see it at McDiarmid Park on Sunday. Rodgers could see it too, and he didn’t miss in his post match interviews.

One of the biggest boots you can get as a player is being told the other team wanted it more. It’s questioning the desire, the commitment and the work rate. That sort of stuff can sting – and it should sting the Celtic squad.

And you suspect that’s why Rodgers did it. He’s not a man to get emotional after games. I look at the contrast between him and Barry Ferguson at Rangers. The Ibrox caretaker manager spoke from the heart after the hopeless loss to Hibs. He's done it a few times now.

A lot of Rangers fans respect him for it and that’s their