Source: Team_Talk
Hoops boss pleads for patience
The Hoops went in to the first leg of the Champions League third qualifying round tie at Celtic Park unbeaten in four pre-season friendlies, which encouraged a more-than healthy crowd of around 55,000 to make their way to the east end of Glasgow.
However, Mowbray's first competitive game since taking over from Gordon Strachan brought an immediate dampening of expectations when Alexander Kokorin's seventh-minute strike proved to be enough to give the Muscovites the advantage ahead of next week's return leg.
Former West Brom boss Mowbray, who gave competitive starting debuts to new signings Landry N'Guemo and Marc-Antoine Fortune - with Danny Fox coming on as a second half-substitute - could do little more than remain defiant.
However, it would take an unlikely win in Moscow next Wednesday to prevent the Parkhead side from dropping in to the Europa League qualifiers.
Mowbray, perhaps subconsciously, pre-empted an early-season disappointment for the Hoops fans when he mapped out his medium-term future at the club.
"It's a building process," said the former Celtic defender, whose side have never turned around a European tie after losing the first match at home.
"I'm not here to change it all overnight.
"I've said from day one, you can't expect to go out and buy six or seven players and change everything and expect it all to click in to place.
"You build as you go along.
"It will take time to add a player here and there and to move a player on.
"I would like to think that in the next two or three transfer windows, you build a team that will have changes from the team that you seen against Dinamo."
Mowbray conceded: "We all get judged on results.
"We won three and drew one in pre-season and, wow, wasn't it great? And, all of a sudden, it comes to a Champions League game.
"But I'd like to think my own philosophy is not to get too high or too low.
"I'm not in the doldrums and I've never been on a mountain thinking we're kings of the world.
"We are working hard to try and build a team that is trying to be successful and that process continues five games in."
Mowbray may find help around the corner in midfield duo Scott Brown and Barry Robson, who are set to feature for the first time this season against Sunderland in Saturday's friendly at Celtic Park after recovering from respective ankle and groin injuries.
"There are few days training yet to come," the Hoops boss said.
"But if they come through okay, are feeling fine and not complaining of anything then there is a fair chance they will find some involvement at the weekend."
