The Celtic house that Ange Postecoglou built as transfers and thrills banish a key 10 In A Row failing

The accusation was of a club bereft of vision, that the all-encompassing 10 In A Row was pursued at the cost of pretty much everything else.

"Ludicrous" - according to Neil Lennon, four days after Celtic were bodily flung out of Champions League qualifying by Ferencvaros and not six months before he lost his job.

Evidence to the contrary had stacked up long before then and what once appeared an unstoppable green and white juggernaut spluttered its way to the end of the rainbow to find the pot of gold had long gone.

With the wheels well and truly off, the road back looked a frighteningly long one for Celtic.

The departure of long-serving chief-executive Peter Lawwell, key players' contracts expiring and a resurgent Rangers under Steven Gerrard stacked the odds against whoever eventually replaced Lennon in the dugout.

With all that in mind, the very public and ultimately doomed pursuit of Eddie Howe certainly did not feel like the happiest of accidents.

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Fast forward eight months, however, and already it could well mark one of the most significant sliding doors moment in the club's long history.

For what Ange Postecoglou has pieced together in his short tenure has already outstripped most of even