Developments at Celtic this season seem to have put years on Greg Taylor.

It isn’t that the full-back has been burdened by helping his club regain their league crown. Instead, it is that the departures of the long-serving pair Tom Rogic and Nir Bitton have significantly altered his status within a squad comprehensively rebuilt by Ange Postecoglou.

Taylor may have arrived at Celtic as relatively recently as September 2019, joining then in a £2m move from Kilmarnock. The monumental turnover in the champions’ playing personnel since then, though, means only James Forrest and Callum McGregor have racked up more games for the club than the defender. That fact, he jokes, has seriously aged him - even as the manner he has matured under Postecoglou’s stewardship, which has required him to become a full-back capable of building the play from the middle of the pitch, resulted in easily his best campaign for the Glasgow side.

Celtic player turnover laid bare as 2019 signing left in 'bizarre' position