Immediately after midnight is never the best time to assess how your club has performed in the transfer window.
The final day always brings a range of emotions, usually long bouts of pessimism interrupted by the occasional burst of optimism that the jigsaw is about to be completed.
Slowly but surely word comes through that it’s not working out as you had hoped with a consolation or two thrown in to lift the mood.
At that stage you start to look at the bigger picture and for Celtic fans none of last season’s treble winning squad has moved on.
Stuart Armstrong’s new contract isn’t the commitment that we’d hoped for and a permanent move for Patrick Roberts would have been greeted like the return of a Swedish number seven but two and a half seasons of the little genius is more service than we got out of Virgil van Dijk and Victor Wanyama.
Without doubt the biggest concern is in central defence which has been magnified by two factors.
A run of injuries in that position plus a spending spree by Paris St Germain has put the spotlight on that area of the team.
Even fit and well it’s easy to construct an argument that the central defence isn’t of the same standard as the Celtic midfield or strike force.
Erik Sviatchenko and Dedryck Boyata are way behind their team-mates in terms of match fitness with the Belgian in with a chance of being ready to face PSG.
Is that the fixture to reunite him with Jozo Simunovic for the first time this season?
No one is genuinely expecting Celtic to slug it out with PSG and Bayern in the Champions League but comparisons will be made between Anderlecht and Borussia Monchengladbach.
Before this month is out Celtic will have visited the Belgian champions, the morning of Thursday 28th September will be a better time to assess transfer business.