With Three Weeks Of The Window Left, It’s Amazing How Calm Things At Celtic Are.

During the mid-point part of this window, where most of us were wondering what in the Hell was taking so long about the Jota deal, I lamented that we were, as usual, going to leave things to the last minute.

Then that deal was done, and within days Ange had announced that he expected two more signings by the end of the week.

Mooy came in and then Jenz did. The latter has already scored a crucial goal.

Ange says there will be business in both ways in these last few weeks; what is remarkable about that is that there’s no clamour now for deals to be concluded anytime soon.

The club is content to wait. The manager is content to wait … and so are the fans.

The key business – the left back, centre back, midfield reinforcement and the locking down of the two big loanees – is already concluded. Most of us are sitting back with smiles on our faces, because those were the priorities and they’ve been met.

There is a lesson here for Celtic’s leadership figures, those above Ange; the value in doing things for the benefit of the football department and not the balance sheet are obvious.

I have never seen the whole of our club in a more relaxed frame of mind, from the fans up.

We are all keen to see what is next in the transfer market, of course we are.

But if the window closed tomorrow I would be basically happy with the current balance of the squad and I think most people would be. Even if this had been a Champions League qualifiers year, we would have had the top people in place before a ball was kicked.

That is working fast. That is working better than we have in years.

And you can see the benefits of it. Everyone is buzzing.

The team is performing well. Everything is going like clockwork on and off the pitch. There is no mad late scrambling, no fretting or stressing over the weeks ahead … just a calm anticipation.

What a difference from previous years.

What a difference from the Lawwell regime, when we had to watch managers desperate for new players sometimes on the final day. Anyone who thinks this guy would be a fitting Celtic chairman ought to remember that.

We are clearly moving forward. It would be the wrong time to go backwards.