Celtic first-team coach Alan Thompson insists the club will not be held to ransom as they search for a defender during the January transfer window.
With Daniel Majstorovic out for up to three weeks with a hamstring strain, Jos Hooiveld out on loan at FC Copenhagen and Glenn Loovens still recovering from injury, 20-year-old Thomas Rogne is the only recognised central defender available for tonight's Clydesdale Bank Premier League clash with Hearts at Parkhead.
But Thompson does not believe selling clubs will be successful if they try to benefit from Celtic's situation, and said: "I don't think the club will allow that to happen. We have Glenn Loovens due back fit and Daniel has a strain. So we have centre-halves who are not a million miles away but I'm sure that won't happen with the club."
He added: "There are a number of things we are looking at between now and next Monday when the transfer window closes so we will just have to see what comes from that but at present it is looking like we will have to go with what we have."
Nottingham Forest defender Kelvin Wilson has signed a pre-contract with Celtic and will move north at the end of the season but the English club were reportedly asking the Parkhead outfit for £600,000 to allow the player to make an immediate move.
"It's Forest's prerogative," continued Thompson. "He is their player although he has signed a pre-contract.
"We would like to get him in but, as I said, there is nothing moving at present.
"You can understand their situation. He is their player and they will probably want to keep him until the summer."
Source: PA
