‘Bitterness doesn’t help anyone’

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some degree,” he said. “We’ll have to take it a day at time like everything and see what the outcome is going to be.

“I just hope everyone can find some sort of peace and resolution.

“I don’t know if an interdict to halt the start of the season is

we are setting out to do this season.”

As for new signings? Lennon has previously stated that Celtic, who strengthened extensively last summer, only need to bring in two or three new faces. But he knows they may need to bide their time to make fresh acquisitions.

“I don’t think the markets will really open up until the English league finishes and we’ll get some kind of benchmark in terms of transfer fees and wages,” he said. “There are a lot of big deals to be done. It might just be a question of being patient and seeing what is available.

“You’d obviously like to feasible. But I’d just hope the SPFL, Hearts and Thistle can come to some sort of agreement, whether it’s compensation or whatever, I don’t know.

“What we can’t have is another delay. It would be so damaging, not just to the top clubs but to all the clubs. The bitterness doesn’t help anyone.”

do your business early, but the window could be open until October. We can’t put a prediction of what will happen during these times.”

The start of the new Premiership campaign has been pencilled in for August 1 and Lennon, who returned to training with his players last week, admitted the sense of anticipation was already building.

“There’s a real sense of excitement and you want the full package,” he said. “You want your best players to be here and the fans to be eventually back in to see them go for it. We hope all things go smoothly on and off the pitch.”