The week in claret and blue.

In, out, win, lose. It’s all go.

The week starts, and with it comes news that Al Nassr are more than mildly interested in Jhon Duran while Tyrone Mings is out for a week or so, which is probably the best we could hope for.

As excitement for Wednesday’s Battle of Britain reaches fever pitch, the police ask us all to play nicely if we find any Celtic supporters where they shouldn’t be and used the words “counter-terrorism” in a pre-match briefing to the locals that goes down well.

As for the match itself, the predicted carnage didn’t happen either on the pitch or off. Outside all seemed quiet except for a few flares and some shouting from behind fences and police lines. Inside, the pre-match atmosphere was a bit muted, certainly not at Bayern levels, which might be a reflection on how we’re getting used to these nights.

We certainly began like we’re used to it; two up in the first few minutes, both goals from Morgan Rogers. If Ollie Watkins had scored a third we might have been looking at the sort of result that used to be printed in numbers and words on Final Score. Instead, his shot was kicked off the line and to make matters worse Matty Cash went off injured to herald a re-shuffled defence and in the time it took them to settle Celtic scored twice.

Still, no need to panic. Watkins put us back into the lead and should have wrapped the match up but slipped when he was about to take a penalty and the result was less than impressive. He also missed chances either side of that and against a better team we might have had a problem but Celtic were doing their bit to show the difference between the Scottish and English leagues. In stoppage time Rogers got his hat-trick and not long after the final whistle we found out that other results had gone our way and we’re in the top eight. Well done us, that’s a hell of an achievement in the circumstances.

Then Duran’s about to sign for Al-Nassr for £64 million while we’re looking at PSG’s Marco Asensio. In the aftermath of Wednesday there’s footage of fighting inside the ground and condemnation of Celtic supporters’ chants. Being English we’ll get the blame for everything even though an arrest scoreline of villa 2 Celtic 19 tells its own story.

Louie Barry’s signed a new contract and his reward is being sent out to Hull for the rest of the season, while Joe Gauci, who’s either our third or fourth-choice keeper depending on whar day it is, has gone on loan to Barnsley.

Saturday begins with news that Duran’s definitely gone and we’re about to sign Marcus ‘surely not’ Rashford. Then an expert on football finance claims our PSR problem might be much worse than reported, which sounds worrying. Ah, the ‘expert’ is Keith Wyness. As you were. And the less said about the afternoon’s proceedings, the better.

Wolves are dire, which means their supporters are in open warfare with their owners and a good start would have got them even more revolting than usual, So our admittedly makeshift defence does their best for Anglo-Chinese relations by gifting them an early goal while the rest of the team doesn’t do that much to get one back.

Watkins goes off injured, Donyell Malen has an equaliser ruled out and that’s about it for the rest of the match, except for Wolves getting a second goal in stoppage time. Sort it out please, Unai.

The week ends with the loan signing of Rashford, who goes from past it to needing a new challenge in the blink of a signature. 24 hours to go, two players to sign.