Does O'Neill want to stay? And can Celtic afford to let him go?

Martin O'Neill was only supposed to be in charge of Celtic for a few weeks in the autumn. An emergency measure. Yet he ended up doing a double stint across nearly two-thirds of a season.

Now the 74-year-old club legend walks away - if indeed he does walk away - with a Premiership and Scottish Cup double which will go down as one of their sweetest, given the circumstances. Which all begs two very obvious questions: Can Celtic really afford to let O'Neill leave? And does the man himself want to stay?

"If the season was to start tomorrow, I couldn't do it," he told BBC Sport Scotland in the immediate aftermath of the 3-1 victory over Dunfermline Athletic at Hampden. "But the season doesn't start tomorrow. It does start quickly, though, and I'm getting old.

I've done the learning in the last three or four months. Some tactics I saw befuddled me, but it's good at my age. "In the next week, I'll meet with the owner.