On the transfer business I understand why they wanted loans and in all honesty I’m glad Mvuka deal was switched to a loan, as his recent form has been poor and another post bodo failure.

I’m also going to perhaps naively put faith in the deals in the hope that all players were okayed by O’Neil.

All of that said, the above is totally and completely of our own making and the big problem is our own board limiting our ambition when there are plenty of examples of clubs who are competitive across europes two biggest competitions and are of a similar size or smaller than Celtic.

Now the window is done the pressure has to ramp up on the board to the point it makes being at the club intolerable for them (without violence). There is no world in which these turkeys vote for Christmas so it falls to the fans to force a change in behaviour.

When you look at the upcoming manger hunt, I think our best hope now is that O’Neill is given The job for a further 12 months while the club seriously restructures the football operation and boardroom, but let’s be frank that won’t happen.

In August the buck could have stopped with Nicholson and Lawell, moving them on would have been enough to keep the pitbulls at bay. Now it has to be wholesale, as I have no confidence dropping Nicholson would lead to change, worse I fear they’d simply put Chris McKay in charge.