Brendan Rodgers has admitted that Celtic hopes to finish an agreement to sign Kieran Tierney from Arsenal before the window closes.
The Parkhead Club has agreed the terms of an agreement prior to the contract, kicking this summer.
Confirming that the left side Alex Valle has interrupted his loan agreement in Barcelona to sign for him as SIDE of Serie A, Rodgers wants to seal Tierney's return on loan before a permanent agreement between Action.
Arsenal is prepared to sell Oleksandr Zinchenko to Atlético de Madrid and, if the Ukrainian leaves for a lot of money, the chief of the Gunners, Mikel Arteta, would prefer to hold on to Tierney, 27 years old as a cover.
However, when talking before the shock of the Champions League Wednesday night with Aston Villa in Birmingham, Rodgers expressed the hope that a faster meeting with Tierney could be opened in the last days of the transfer window Winter.
“Ideally, I would do it,” said Celtic manager. 'But at this time it is still an Arsenal player. So I think everyone would agree that (the movement) will definitely take place in the summer. If we can do it in advance, then great.
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'I don't know. I think we had prepared it for summer. And I don't want to talk too much about it, with the greatest respect, because now he is not a Celtic player here with us.
'But if we could do it, of course we would like to do it. But that is out of our control at this time.
Rodgers confirmed that the valley on the left in Loan had played his last game for Celtic. The Barcelona player goes to loan until the end of the season.
'Alex will not play again, sadly. Now he's in Barcelona right now, '' he said.
'And it will probably go to another team. So, again, he is another young player who has contributed very well for us.
'He made almost 20 appearances for us. He played in some very important games. He made his debut in the Champions League. Especially in Atalanta, it was fantastic.
'He played in really important games. So, we are disappointed to stay. But we have to move on.
Celtic has already completed some businesses this week, selling Kyogo Furuhashi to Rennes for £ 10 million, while brings to the Portuguese extreme jota of the French club for £ 7.6 million.
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Kyogo's departure, allied to Daizen Maeda's suspension, leaves Rodgers below the attack options in Villa Park.
Currently looking at the Brondby striker, Mathias Kvistgaarden denied the knowledge of a report that alleged that Celtic had presented an offer for the Norwegian end Sondre Orjaeter.
Rodgers, who wants a replacement for fans' favorite, Kyogo before Monday, he added: “Clearly, he (Kyogo) has been a true iconic player for the club,” he said.
'He has done absolutely brilliant in his time here. So, it is about obtaining a replacement. I think that is clear.
'He is a player who has done a great job. But he probably wanted to leave. We have to go from that and we have to look at the next player to enter '.
When asked if he trusted to sign a new striker in recent days, Rodgers added: 'Yes. There is a lot of work behind the scene.
'' Clearly, we would not have wanted to sell (Furuhashi), certainly not at this time.
'But it made it clear that I wanted to move and, when that is the case, we have to find the best solution for the club.
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“And the club will work very hard and we will seek to obtain a capable replacement.”
Celtic faces Villa without the key defender Cameron Carter-Vickers, the American international who does not travel after suffering a condition.
Predict that the player will return to physical aptitude on time for Sunday's trip to Motherwell, Rodgers challenged others to advance to the dish.
'We have other players who can enter and it is an opportunity for them to make sure they can perform at this level.
'And that's what a Celtic player is about.
'You want to come and play in these great sands against fantastic teams.
'And between now and the end of the market, we hope to reinforce the team and keep the team improving.
'The players have been fantastic. They have stayed with the idea, they have worked very, very hard.
'And what we set out to do, which was first to the play-offs, the players have done it, so it is great.
'But our work is not complete in this series of eight games.
“We come here to a great place, against a fantastic team, but we want to come to play at the level we know we can do.”