THIS IS A SELL OUT

Selling the star man at this stage of the season would be like letting Larsson go when Celts were on road to Seville.

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SELLING Kyogo Furuhashi feels like Celtic have just put their hands up and admitted there's a ceiling on their Champions League ambitions.

That the end of the road has been reached in Europe this term, whilst an unnecessary risk has been taken at home.

If you wanted to be ultra-critical, you could even say that it's money over magic.

Celtic deserve big congratulations after qualifying for the Champions League play-off stages.

Brendan Rodgers and the players have really delivered at the top table and it has been brilliant to see after years of underachievement at the highest level.

But they can aim for more. And the title isn't won either. I get annoyed when folk say it's all over.

It's why I just don't get this Kyogo sale. There is a right time and a wrong time to leave.

Rodgers said Kyogo wanted to go. I get that. Fair enough, sell him in the summer but why now in the midst of a campaign where more can be achieved? After three-and-a-half years he clearly wanted a new challenge but that's not his call to make. Not when under contract. Yes you can go but when we decide. Not you.

I'm not in the dressing room but Kyogo doesn't seem like a bad egg or the sort to cause unrest. Callum McGregor said recently he was still a happy wee guy.

Rodgers revealed this issue has been on the go for a couple of months but Kyogo was still delivering in the past fortnight with big goals at Ross County and being dangerous against Young Boys, so it's not like the tools had been packed away.