Brendan Rodgers last night told his squad they must cope with the pressure of being Celtic players or they won't last long at the club.
The Parkhead boss does know that in the recent past too many signings, many of whom cost good money, have flopped, not because they weren't good enough, but the reason was they could not handle the intensity of life as a footballer in Glasgow.
Rodgers hopes to add to the signing of Moussa Dembele soon and he will only look at those he feels are strong enough characters to wear the shirt.
Because talent, in his eyes, is not enough to make it at a club such as Celtic.
Rodgers said: "I think pressure is part of playing for a club like Celtic.
"You don’t always have to be the best player but you’ve got to cope with pressure and cope with that demand, whether you are a player or the manager at a club like this one.
“You are at one of the big institutions and you have to be able to deal with it. The pressure will come. The pressure always comes.
"And that’s not always about the talent. You guys will have seen it a lot more than me over the years at clubs like Celtic where you can have big talents who maybe can’t cope with pressure.
“So the idea is to get the personality type, the profile right, so that in those moments they can stay calm and deal with it.
"I know that it will come, no matter how much you dominate a game: there will be moments in that game when the pressure will come. You just stay calm, stay focused, and we hopefully try to train for that.”
Celtic's season begins for real on Tuesday in Gibraltar with a Champions League qualifying match against minnows Lincoln Red Imps, a match that really should be a stroll for the Ladbrokes Scottish Premiership champions.
The club have failed for two years to reach the group stages and these past failures bring more pressure on Rodgers despite the fact he had nothing do with previous campaigns.
The Northern Irishman believes he is putting together a team and squad capable of handing these situations.
And revealed every day in training was geared towards getting Celtic back into the Europan big time.
Rodgers said: "It will always ultimately be about players and how you cope with pressure.
"What you try to do, especially in this short period of time, is give them strategies in order to cope and try to put them in pressure situations and match situations.
“We train at a real intensity so the situations we do are all real-game exercises. But of course you try to limit the mistakes and hopefully they can take that into the game.
"It is a wee bit of both: you can train it and develop it but it’s about the players and players who constantly make mistake. I haven’t got a magic wand."
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