A report linking Celtic with Ismaila Soro immediately leads to YouTube.
It’s the place where a gloss can be put on the performances of even the worst player with basic editing allowing an agent to make any toiler look impressive in a 10 minute clip.
Less cynically the video gives a first impression of what appears to be a box-to-box midfielder with a bit of everything in his game- capable of breaking up play, shifting forward and laying off passes for others.
Having moved from the Ivory Coast to Israel via Moldova settling in Glasgow shouldn’t be too much of a hardship for Soro if Celtic’s interest turns out to be genuine.
Celtic’s ‘problem’ in midfield is a strange one, we keep hearing that Scott Brown won’t last forever but the captain seems to be getting better season by season which closes the door on a phased step-down.
Callum McGregor is undisputed as Brown’s partner in crime with Olivier Ntcham and Tom Rogic struggling to make in-roads.
In recent times Eboue Kouassi and Luca Connell have found the door to the Celtic midfield closed, it remains to be seen whether Soro is the player to make the breakthrough.