CELTIC and Brendan Rodgers are starting to step up their efforts to improve the squad ahead of next season’s Champions league qualifiers.

While there is still a small matter of a Scottish cup final to contest the Celtic manager is conscious that time is of the essence with regards to new personnel and the sooner he gets them in the better.

In that spirit, it has been reported that Celtic have held preliminary talks with Hibs about signing their star midfielder John McGinn.

The Scottish-born player has a lot of admirers with one of them being the Celtic manager.

John has impressed in a Championship winning Hibs side and been a nominee for player of the Championship 2 years on the bounce.

However, Hibs will not let go of their prized asset easily – with their own rebuilding they’ll have to do this summer, Neil Lennon is keen to keep McGinn. It will be up to Celtic to prove how much they want him.

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