Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers is ready to go again after using the international break to reflect on the opening months of the domestic season.

Rodgers missed out on Champions League qualification this summer for the first time in his tenure at the club and also endured a difficult transfer window.

The Parkhead side lost French striker Moussa Dembele to Lyon after a frantic finish to window and he was unable to add the quality he had originally hoped to.

Croatia defender Filip Benkovic arrived on the final day in a loan deal from Leicester just two weeks after signing for the English side and the defender will be expected to make his debut for the club imminently.

"I normally use a few days of the international break to reflect on the previous round of games," Rodgers told www.celticfc.net. "It's been nearly three months so it's been such a busy period. I like to have thinking time to go away and take stock of everything that's gone on.

"When you're trying to be creative as a manager you need that time to reflect. I try to take that opportunity to do that when possible.

"We still have a group of players who have still been here working. We've all met up now and we're preparing for our next batch of seven games inside four weeks."

Tomorrow night’s game against St Mirren in Paisley is the first in a sequence of seven games in the next month for the Parkhead side.

The game against the Paisley side will be the first time Rodgers has been at the new ground and the Hoops boss is already an admirer of Oran Kearney who has assumed the role left by Alan Stubbs.

"I grew up with Celtic playing games at Love Street when the two sides met and it was always a renowned Scottish ground," said Rodgers. "They have a different stadium now and nice so it will be interesting to play in that for the first time.

"I'm obviously very disappointed for Allan and how quickly in the season he's lost his job. He's an excellent coach and manager but he's now gone and Oran Kearney has come in.

"He'll now doubt look to come in and work closely with the squad to get a bit of momentum going. We expect a tough game and we will prepare for that so I'm looking forward to going to the stadium and playing the game.

"I've never met Oran. I've been aware if his work back home in Ireland. I think when he first went for the job in the summer through a mutual friend of ours he wanted a chance to speak and we talked briefly for the first time. He's clearly ambitious to move on. He did a very good job at Coleraine and after Friday, I'll wish him all the best.”