Brendan Rodgers admits Celtic will look to do transfer business ahead of the Champions League deadline.
The Northern Irishman's side will face an as yet undetermined opponent in the Champions League play-off, the first leg coming a week on Wednesday (August 20). However, any new signings must be in before the deadline this week in order to be registered to play.
Celtic completed a number of signings early in the window but only Kieran Tierney and Benjamin Nygren have been starting games, while the only recent addition was defender Jahmai Simpson-Pusey on loan from Manchester City.
Fans are getting concerned about the lack of activity and the manager has now been quizzed on the chances of having anyone in on time for the Champions League.
He told Sky Sports: "Well we'll see, look, I think that I've been open all the way through where we're at, but our job between now and then and now and the end of the window is to to make Celtic the very best that we possibly can.
"And in the meantime, we'll continue to to develop the players that are here and improve them. And we've had two tough games to start. St. Mirren at home, a really tough team to break down. Aberdeen away, as I said, the context of last year, and we've come away with two clean sheets, played well, and I know we'll get better as the season goes on."
Asked if that means he would be happy to go into the crucial two-legged affair with his current squad, he added: "Well, it doesn't really matter. It's what is there in the building and of course I want Celtic to be with the very best possible players that there can be.
"And for me that's always signing players at the top end of the pitch. But I can't imagine from there. And if they're not there, we'll work with the players that are there, make them the very best that we can be.
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"So yeah, I'm not going to be I'm not going to keep commenting on it. We know where we need to strengthen. We know if we want to be the best that we can be, we have to.
"And but in the meantime, the players here are working and looking very, very well and we've had two very good performances and results."
Summer signing Nygren was on target for the first time for Celtic to open the scoring against Aberdeen today, from Tierney's assist.
Rodgers was pleased to see the attacking midfielder do what was brought in to do and expects him to carry on in that vein.
"Well, that was the idea for bringing him in," he added. "He's a player that can play in the eight, he can play as a 10 or he can play on the side.
"But in how we play, I see him very much as an eight, someone who can move the ball quickly, get turned and take spaces, and then do what he's done. He gets in the box and he can get goals.
"It was a really good finish, but if you watch his movement from the first entry into the final third, he's outside and then he comes in and then he's done what we asked him to do, is get in the box as eights to score goals and create goals. So he can do that for us and I will expect him to get to get many more."
