Reo Hatate is an outrageous Celtic talent but there's something else I've noticed about star man – Chris Sutton

Reo Hatate was all smiles with Brendan Rodgers after his Champions League heroics. No wonder. The Japanese is back to where I thought he’d be a year ago.

Front and centre and dominating games at Europe’s highest level. For all the accolades handed out to Celtic’s players this week, Hatate’s display was the most noteworthy in my book for a variety of reasons. Rodgers has huge performers throughout his unit right now and I cannot remember seeing a Celtic side control a game at that level against such high-quality opposition in the competition.

Sure they took five off Slovan Bratislava, but RB Leipzig was different. They are second-best right now in the Bundesliga and they were most certainly second-best in midweek. Nicolas Kuhn is, naturally, taking most headlines for his goals and I’ve no idea how the team are going to replace Callum McGregor when the day comes for him to finish. Mercifully for my old club, that’s a while away yet because he was just sublime against Leipzig.

McGregor just makes things look so easy. He just does things in under-pressure situations where others buckle and blunder.

The captain knits everything together and he’s been that way for quite some time. His consistency of performance is always there. Which is, it has to be said, why my eye has been drawn back to Hatate.

In the second season of Ange Postecoglou in Glasgow, the midfielder that he brought to Scotland was just outstanding. Kyogo may have won the Player of the Year Awards for his goals, but I felt Hatate should have been the recipient and I said so at the time.

How the Japanese boys that were signed by Postecoglou were going to respond to his departure for Spurs was a big topic at the time. And, although Kyogo and Daizen Maeda kept