Ahead of the match with Dunfermline on Sunday and reflecting on the midweek loss at Copenhagen in the Champions League, Strachan again stressed he knows where the problems are - and added that good coaching is not about buying your way out of difficulty. Strachan said: "You need to trust me that I know what's wrong, because it's not right that you tell people what your weakness is. It's up to other people to find that out!
"I didn't wait until January (to try and improve things), I was out there this morning. We had a real coaching morning.We can only paint a picture for the players and if they can't pick it up then you have to do something about it.
Whether it's a younger player, different players, it doesn't matter, but I can't sit and go 'just go and get some new players' - that's not coaching. Anybody can do that." Looking ahead to the last-16 of the Champions League, Strachan said many of the teams left in the tournament have very strong squads, but added that with the cost of players in the current climate, it is not possible for Celtic to go out and buy six or seven top-names.
He said: "We're all intelligent enough to look at the squads that are out there. We're 100/1 to win it, that means everybody in Europe thinks we're the weakest squad in it, so what we will have to do is play at our maximum and try and get better.
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