That was comfortable, even if the second half was a bit chaotic. Comfortable in the sense that we were hardly tested, not even in the second half when Hibs pulled themselves together after we had absolutely thrashed them in the first 45 minutes.

It was neither pleasant to see Kyogo spend two seasons on the pitch, nor to see Mikey Johnston trudge on and off the pitch with yet another injury, definitively marking him as a player who does not belong at Celtic Park, whatever fantasies some people still indulge in.

That was our reserve striker. I hope to never see him in a Celtic shirt again. It’s a travesty that he’s still here wasting his time and ours. It’s absurd to see him back in this team and there is no worse indictment in this transfer window than that.

Now it’s Kyogo who stands alone, one of the most fouled players in the league, a guy who only broke his shoulder after being out for months, our only recognised front man 11 days into August, having spent an entire transfer window so far chasing a target we don’t yet have and may not sign. This is Celtic in 2024, pretending to be a big club.

People seem content for us to pretend that this is OK and normal in some ways, but at this point they are just fooling themselves because even a blind man can see that this is just wrong. It stinks to high heaven and even those in the clown wagon who are berating those of us who are concerned about this situation have their hearts in their mouths today, whether they want to admit it or not.

We sold Oh over a month ago and every day since then some of us have been shouting at the club to either do the Idah deal or find another destination. It is dangerously stupid to pretend everything is fine and every day we pretend it is we are playing Russian roulette.

I want to present you with a scenario that is entirely possible. Norwich have decided not to sell Idah at the moment and let him continue to play. So imagine they send him into a game this week and he goes down, gets injured and it’s a bad game that puts him out of action for weeks or even months? Are people still relaxed about the situation?

Remember, the manager wants to sign two strikers. Two. We haven’t signed a deal yet. Are you confident we can sign two? Because if we sign Idah and Kyogo gets the shoulder injury, do you want to go through the same heartbreaking feeling every time Idah gets a serious injury? Anyone who thinks Mikey Johnston is part of the answer is certainly not asking the right question.

This is a weaker squad than at the end of last season. Nobody should be defending that at this point. Nobody.

And I don’t think we’ll come out of this transfer window with a single signing that will strengthen the starting eleven, which was the goal when this transfer window started. I’ve stopped hoping for that. I’m only going to be disappointed.

Despite this, we are playing great football at times and asking the right questions. We have six points from six games and are seven goals ahead. The machine is running smoothly and strongly but, apart from the starting XI, this is a painfully weak squad, the result of not signing a single player for the starting XI (apart from substitutes) in the last five transfer windows and I won’t even put the word ‘so far’ at the end of that sentence because this is the fifth transfer window and we haven’t managed it and I don’t think we will.

I was pleased to see Kuhn play well today; no doubt the boardroom leeches were too, saving a few quid on a wide player. His performance was exceptional. McGregor also stepped up and was brilliant with a great goal, as if inspired by his decision to stop playing for Scotland.

The guys here are looking good. Very good, in fact. But we saw the problem today when Bernardo came in. He’s lagging behind the rest of the team in terms of how we play and his role. That’s the challenge that every player we sign at this point has to face, and that’s because we’ve waited so long to get something done.

It’s the Idah thing that I keep coming back to, and I see Kyogo dragging his feet today. Anyone who thinks there is a process going on here needs to think long and hard about what the three-month hunt for Idah says about our club, a club that hasn’t finished it, that didn’t even make a proper offer until late last week, a club that wasted months on a player… and still hasn’t done the deal.

I’m past the point of being mad about this, I’ve resigned myself to this transfer window ending in scandalous disappointment, the manager falling short, and I already know the board will try to convince us this was a success depending on whether Idah comes back… a completely fraudulent premise as the team will be no better off than at the end of last season if and when we do manage to get it.

But Mikey Johnston’s substitutions sum up this situation better than anything I could ever write. The unacceptability of our position is clearly summed up in one footballer. Shame not only on those who allowed this to happen within our walls, but on all those who continue to act as if this is how big clubs do business. This is no longer amateur hour.

Apparently our directors just don’t give a shit.

Guys and girls, you’ll have to forgive me for the comment situation; I’m away for the weekend and won’t be back until tomorrow. In the meantime, I’m posting spontaneously and doing what I can. I’ll upload your comments sometime tomorrow, so don’t be shy about leaving them.