This season should have been the one in which Tony Watt made his real breakthrough, taking a tight grip on a starting place in Neil Lennon’s Celtic side.

Having seen Gary Hooper and others depart in the summer, and on the back of that most celebrated winning goal against Barcelona last November, the 19-year-old would have been hopeful of making considerable progress.

Instead he has been farmed out to Lierse of Belgium and condemned by their coach as “lazy” and “unfit.” Those comments have been backed up — to an extent — by Lennon himself so we can hardly dispute their legitimacy.