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goal-shy frontline. But the 73-year-old admits they need January deals over the line ASAP. He said: “I need players, if we can, who are ready to go. I need players to be ready.

“My job is to aim for that. I am selfish, I need people in to go now. I am going for both - quantity and quality.

“Number one, you want someone to help the squad. That's a given.

“If I was given some sort of assurance that something would happen in 10 days, I might wait for that. But I can't wait forever.

“We have three weeks and a lot of games between now and then. I do accept this is a difficult time and it’s not ideal but we do need something”

Celts tabled an ambitious loan bid to tempt Kyogo back to Glasgow - 12 months after flogging him to Rennes.

But O'Neill confirmed: “We enquired about the possibility and I think he wants to stay. I think Birmingham want to keep him as well. That was the news that I'd heard.