I keep reading articles suggesting that Celtic should sign this player or that player. I also see articles suggesting that we are tracking this player. Alternatively, some say that this guy or other have emerged as top targets. As a result, many say we should move for them straight away.

I’ll know we are in real trouble, the kind that makes this season look like a picnic. We are in trouble if we start buying players before a manager is through the door.

To me, any serious conversation about actual signings is a waste of everyone’s time until we know who the boss is going to be. In addition, doing it the other way round would prove that we haven’t learned a thing.

There are numerous really good players out there and we have been linked with some of them. The Bodo/Glimt striker is just one example.

But we are not getting any of those deals right unless the managerial appointment is made very early after this campaign ends. In my view, we should be aiming to have the next Celtic boss lined up, name agreed, deal signed and sealed as early as possible. Without that, we cannot even...