I can’t shake Celtic failure feeling and dreamer Rodgers has to be realistic about what they can achieve – Chris Sutton

Celtic fans seemed happy enough the other night as their team was demolishing Dundee.

Jota was back in full flow like he’d never been away, Adam Idah was bang in form and back in the goals and Daizen Maeda was doing his best Henrik Larsson impression. It was like the supporters had forgotten all about Kyogo and his departure for Rennes. That’s fair enough – but I can’t help but feel the failure to replace him is a major disappointment. Listen, Celtic are 13 points clear in the Premiership with 13 games to go. I don’t think it’s done yet but I can see why plenty of people do.

The Scottish Cup is there to be won too and I’m looking at this week’s Bayern Munich game and wondering why Celtic haven’t given themselves the best possible chance of a result? We know they’re up against it. Celtic could have signed a £25million striker and still got battered by Bayern. But that’s not the point. By failing to build from a position of strength, they’ve hampered chances of causing an upset rather than improving them.

And it’s yet another transfer window where fans are left wondering what went wrong. Brendan Rodgers said he knew Kyogo wanted to go for months and he wanted a replacement.

This wasn’t like Moussa Dembele dropping a bombshell on deadline day. Celtic had plenty of time to prepare for his departure. It defies belief they allowed Kyogo to go without having a new man lined up.

Ask yourself, why is Kieran Tierney not at the club right now? He certainly wanted to be, rather than making five minute cameos from the Arsenal bench.

But the reason Celtic will have to wait until the summer is because Arsenal didn’t want to let him go right now and the player had to lump it. Why did that rule not apply at Celtic? If Celtic were