A theme of Celtic’s season has been Rodgers bemoaning their transfer business and a perceived lack of quality brought into the club.
He has regularly been asked about and pointed out the goals that have been taken out of his squad with the sales of Kyogo Furuhashi last January and Nicolas Kuhn in the summer, in addition to Jota’s long-term injury absence.
Sebastian Tounekti and Michel-Ange Balikwisha arrived to bolster Rodgers’ attacking options after they had already been dumped out of Champions League qualifying by Kazakh champions Kairat, while Kelechi Iheanacho arrived on a free after the window had closed.
And after they failed to fire in attack once again, Rodgers appeared to criticise the quality within his squad.
“I think the challenge from the summer, now leading into here, where we lost a lot of firepower, a lot of goals out on the team,” he said.
“And there’s no way you’ll go into a race and be given the keys to a Honda Civic and say, ‘I want you to drive it like a Ferrari’. It’s not going to happen.”
He insists it is up to him to find “solutions” to their goal-scoring issues, be it through changes to personnel or formation.
“Until something changes, I have to find the solutions,” he added.
“Because like I said, goals, speed, everything has come out of the team and we need to find a way to be better.
“We had the opportunities to do what we needed to do. It didn’t happen, so now it’s finding ways, whether it’s 4-3-3, whether it’s 3-4-3, whether it’s 3-5-2. We’re trying to look at all these different permutations within the team.”