Rodgers confident of deadline-day additions

Brendan Rodgers believes Celtic will secure "a number of signings" before the end of the transfer window at 23:00 BST and emerge with a stronger squad.

Celtic are set to sign Augsburg midfielder Arne Engels and Sheffield United defender Auston Trusty and have also made an offer for Dundee midfielder Luke McCowan.

"We're in a really good place in terms of that and we hope by the close of the market this evening we'll have a number of signings sealed and making our squad stronger," manager Rodgers said.

"That's always the goal that we had when we entered into this window - we want to make the team and squad stronger and hopefully we can close the market and that is the case.

"I don't want to pick any names until they're signed, but that's the aim. We don't want to just regenerate the squad. We want to improve the squad."

Rodgers has added five players to his squad this summer, albeit two of those - Adam Idah and Paulo Bernardo - were loans made permanent.

"There's been a lot of hard work going on behind the scenes," added Rodgers.

"Things sometimes don't happen until later on, either through availability or a club not wanting to sell a player. But there's been a lot of movement in the last four or five days. The club have been great in terms of trying to push these deals through.

"Quality always takes a little bit of time. We wanted to improve. That was the key. I don't want to take away from the guys that have been here, [who have] been brilliant for me in this opening part of the season."