BRENDAN RODGERS last night promised Celtic supporters that the team will give their all to reach the last 16 of the Champions League.

And that neither the players, nor he, were satisfied by simply reaching the group stages.

The club will find out today who they will face and Rodgers believes the team can provide the fans with more glorious European nights.

He said: “I think we have to refocus on our goals. We want to come out of the group. We are not in it just to participate.

“In order to get out of the group you have to get in it. So our first job, which was a massive job, was to qualify. It’s an amazing experience to have gone through it.

“But now we are actually in it, it’s most probably going to be a difficult draw. We are in now with Europe’s elite. But we will be in it to try to qualify.”

Celtic are set to earn between £25 million and £30m from the group stages, and that is on top of the transfer kitty he already had, which he has hardly touched.

The club are not going to rip up their philosophy of working within certain limits, but Tuesday night's qualification into the Champions League group stages was a game-changer in terms of the calibre of player that could be lured to the east end of Glasgow.

And Rodgers is quietly confident that some good business can be done during this transfer window.

He said: “There is a bit of work to do. We’d obviously spoken about if qualification happens, what it is we need, but the most important thing for Celtic is that it keeps improving what we have and keeping that momentum.

“Our club has built great momentum in a short period of time and we have to keep moving forward.

‘That will mean bringing players in who will improve us, but we have done an awful lot of great work in this market.

“There is a bit of time to do some more and we’ll take some time over the next days to reflect on that and, hopefully, make some improvements.”

Rodgers also paid tribute to the work of his predecessor Ronny Deila who left him a solid group of players to work with.

“I would like to say thank you to Ronny,” said Rodgers. “Because I don’t get the chance to qualify for the Champions League if he doesn’t win the league – and he won the league last year.

“So amongst the thanks I want to say a particular thank you to him and his staff because that gives me the chance to come into the club when he decided to move on and try to take the team forward.

“They have made huge strides, but they will still be a way to go before they will be where I want them to be.

“I think Tuesday night showed all the work they have been doing, the long hours, all the tactical work, all the psychological work in terms of getting that resistance to anything thrown at you. You get your rewards on the field and that’s where we want to see them.”