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Ange vows to go it alone on recruitment as Sporting Director is put on back burner

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Ange Postecoglou has put off any restructuring of Celtic until after the transfer window closes.

Yesterday the club took the additions to the squad to five with the arrivals of Joe Hart and James McCarthy.

Another five signings are probably needed to provide a competitive starting XI with the real prospect that Odsonne Edouard and Ryan Christie could be sold before the end of this month.

It is a massive rebuilding task for the club to do but without Peter Lawwell and Nick Hammond there is a real void in identifying targets and getting deals completed.

Postecoglou has the task of trying to put a winning team on the park from the squad he inherited from Neil Lennon but is also playing the lead role in bringing in players that he can work with straight away in the first team.

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Our scouting department is still there and they’re working hard on a daily basis to get as much information as possible and obviously I’m doing a lot of that myself which I kind of prefer.

From my perspective, if I can bring in the type of players that I know will suit me then that is going to help the process in changing the way that we play and go about things.

It’s been, everything has been so hectic. The amount of additions that we’ve needed to bring in, the delays that are out of our control. We’ve brought five players in plus two young ones (Liam Shaw and Osaze Urhoghide) earlier in the window, in a pretty short space of time.

Obviously I still want to bring more in, that’s what I’m pushing for. I’d like to think that there won’t be too many windows like this, we’ll be in a much better place next window to not be having to work in this way where we have to bring in so many players.

Asked about the search for a Sporting Director:

Whenever somebody above me talks to me about anything other than bringing in players I kind of say that the connection is bad can you try again later on. My sole focus is on getting the right squad together.

That doesn’t mean what you are talking about isn’t important, it is a priority but it’s probably a priority post window.

The most important thing right now, and what I think that the supporters would want me and the rest of the club to do is to get the rest of the squad together for us to challenge this year.

I’ve got some ideas, I know Dom has some ideas how we structure things in the football department so we’ll crack on with that once the window closes.

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