This has been an incredibly difficult campaign for Celtic Football Club.
It was meant to be a fresh start for the Hoops who were finally rid of Neil Lennon and Peter Lawwell.
Ange Postecoglou has been appointed as the club’s manager but he’s overseen their worst start to a campaign for 23 years.
After seven matches, they have just ten points and without some of their key men due to injury, appear to be a sinking ship.
Kyogo Furuhashi, Greg Taylor, Callum McGregor, James Forrest and Giorgos Giakoumakis are all currently out.
Any side would struggle without those faces but what only adds insult to injury, is the players they lost over the summer.
Odsonne Edouard has already scored twice for Crystal Palace while Olivier Ntcham and Ryan Christie are starting to perform admirably for Swansea and Bournemouth respectively.
Another player that’s now thriving away from Parkhead is Jeremie Frimpong. Anthony Ralston looks a useful replacement and Josip Juranovic will prove his worth eventually but the full-back areas are a position where Celtic are particularly light for options.
Indeed, that problem came about because of Frimpong’s surprise £11.5m departure to Bayer Leverkusen last January.
The 20-year-old was a vibrant prospect in Glasgow and was dubbed as one of the best young talents he’d worked with by Lennon.
Celtic were given a nice sum of money for the right-back but given his potential and performances for Leverkusen now, it might be seen as somewhat of a blunder from Lawwell to get rid.
Coincidentally, the Bhoys take on his new employers in the Europa League this week.
The German outfit will travel to Glasgow for the second match in the group stages of this competition and it wouldn’t be a great shock if Frimpong runs rampant.
He has been nothing short of sublime for the Bundesliga side this season, assisting four goals in eight outings.
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One of his best displays came during the first group stage match where he supplied two goals against Ferencvaros.
Frimpong was also in vibrant form last weekend as his side defeated Mainz.
The defender created another goal for his teammates in what was a complete performance from an offensive point of view.
The former Celtic man took 106 touches of the ball and with that, he used it to devastating effect. Frimpong was successful with three dribbles while he also played a trio of key passes.
He did surrender possession on 25 occasions but given the result, that shouldn’t matter to their head coach Gerardo Seoane.
That’s certainly one area he’ll have to improve in upon his return to Scotland on Thursday.