Celtic snapped up promising young defender Jonathan Afolabi from Southampton on Wednesday.
But he is unlikely to be pitched straight into Thursday's Europa League showdown with Swedish champions AIK, when the Hoops will have to solve their defensive deficiencies - and fast.
Neither Celtic nor AIK can afford to lick their Champions League wounds.
The Hoops are in Europa League action because they alarmingly shipped four goals at home to Romanian champions CFR Cluj. AIK are there because the Swedes shipped two goals at home to the Slovenians of Maribor in their own Champions League collapse.
Bookies thepools.com make Celtic 1/3 odds on favourites to progress.
But there are much better prices to be had elsewhere.
AIK have scored in their last 12 outings this season, but they haven't kept a clean sheet in their last five and were booed off as they slipped to a 2-1 defeat at home to Kalmar last weekend.
Celtic, meanwhile, haves scored THIRTY goals in nine outings this term - but haven't kept a clean sheet since the opening day Premier League slaying of St Johnstone.
Both Teams To Score is a very attractively priced 6/5 with thepools.com - and if you fancy both teams to do that after the interval you can get odds of 3/1 .
So if there are going to be goals, who is going to score them?
Ryan Christie has scored twice as many goals (eight) as his nearest Celtic challenger this season, Odsonne Edouard - and is an attractively priced 17/4 to score first with the pools.com or 6/4 anytime .
Edouard is 16/5 first scorer and 21/20 anytime. But no-one is in better form than James Forrest - four goals in four games - and 11/2 first scorer is an excellent price.
