Having watched Ajax do so well in the Europa league this season, albeit that they fell at the last hurdle to Manchester United on Wednesday night, there is some suggestion that the competition could give Celtic a similar passage.

However, I have to say that competing and staying in the Champions League will always be the priority – which always boils down the summer months being pretty precarious.

You can look too far ahead and get a bit carried away and I do think that Celtic’s main objective over the next few years will lie in firstly trying to get into the group stages of the Champions League and then in trying to qualify for the knock-out stages.

It raises the whole profile of the club and it gives you the chance to compete against the very best that Europe has to offer.

Getting into that company will be on the agenda over the next coming weeks but before they start, you would like to think that the players and the manager will get a breather.

Ironically, there will be some of them who won’t want to stop because it has been going so well but they need the rest. As a player, there is a week or two where you get to savour and enjoy it and I actually think that is very important because it is a big part of it and it is why you work so hard.

As a manager it is different. There is more a sense of self-satisfaction and although you are always looking to the next challenge, you do have to be able to enjoy the moment, however briefly.