FOLLOWING on from last season’s highs and the dramatic against-all-odds league winning run Martin O’Neill led Celtic on, a summer of canny transfer business was required, which would augment the threadbare Celtic side and re-invigorate them for an assault on Europe.

MARTIN O’Neill opening up a Celtic team and charging at a league and cup double is something that older generations of supporters would have thought was a thing of the past, and younger ones would need to rely on history books for, but that unlikely scenario is the one which is striking fear into the hearts of Celtic’s direct rivals for the title.