Soccer Football - Scottish Premiership - Ross County v Celtic - Global Energy Stadium, Dingwall, Scotland, Britain - April 2, 2023 Celtic's Jota celebrates scoring their first goal with Matt O'Riley REUTERS/Russell Cheyne
Stephen McGowan has claimed that Jota is currently being paid £28,000 a week by Celtic.
The winger is the subject of a massive transfer bid from Saudi club Al Ittihad with reports that he will be paid an incredible £10m a year free of tax.
With that figure in mind it is difficult to imagine any circumstances in which Jota would stay in Scotland with only the transfer fee between the two clubs to be agreed.
Celtic players are well rewarded in comparison to most European countries but the club know where they are in the bigger picture.
Discussing Jota’s impeding transfer to Al Ittihad in the Daily Mail, McGowan explains:
Under contract until 2026, Jota earns a sum in the region of £28k a week at Celtic. He could stick around the SPFL for another three seasons and bank £4million in total and, for most fans in their 20s, that’s staggering money. In Saudi Arabia, it takes just four months to earn that much.
The weekly rate is likely to be raised by bonuses for winning trophies, Jota could have a goal and assist bonus in his deal with a signing on fee or loyalty bonus paid out yearly.
His transfer seems inevitable with Celtic fans waiting to see the impact that Brendan Rodgers makes on the transfer market.
By all accounts the Irishman has been given a substantial transfer budget, with Jota about to leave and Aaron Mooy retired last season’s squad has been weakened with expectations that the treble winners can kick on, making progress in Europe while remaining in front domestically.
3 weeks ago I would have put money on Celtic winning the league and at least one cup. Now, I think we have a reasonable chance of winning zilch. Not because of Jota. But because he is the first to go. I fully expect more than half the first team to depart. Our players agents will be looking for deals approaching the one ? Jota got as we speak. And we will also have Ange and other EPL managers making offers. We will be as weak as them come the start of the season BR will be in a weaker position than Ange and he is nowhere as knowledgeable or flexible as the Aussie in the transfer market. The price of success? The players have not even spoke to Rodgers yet and already some are on the move. Mooy retires, Jota for Saudi, what about Kyogo, O’Riley, Hatate and others. These are all Ange’s boys, easier to move on now he has left, especially with huge wages on offer. The only way they were going to catch up was with us being significantly weakened and here it is.
Aye because Rodgers, with a greater budget and better squad than he had last time he came to Celtic, won’t be able to build a team capable of crushing the skinto scum and the test. Get a grip ffs. You’re not a “glass half empty” sort are you John? For you there never wss a glass…
Footballers now have all the power money driven silverware 2 Nd if we get a couple of good years that’s how it will be we just can’t compete with the big boys anymore so enjoy the players we have money money is the future has been for years. Regarding this about Tierney I think it’s rubbish talk on massive wages till ithink 2027″ does not need to go anywhere and we need top centre forward not a fullback just paper talk.
It’s called reality Seppington. But may be its not for you. Greater budget. For Celtic it is a greater budget than ever for BR it is chicken feed. This is a guy who spent so much he made Leicester the most expensive football team in History to be relegated. A guy that went through 350 million at Liverpool. A guy so unimpressed by Celtic he jumped at the first job he was offered in England leaving ‘the club he loves’ in the lurch.
It looks like we will lose most of our key players because we have lost the guy who held it all together. Ange’s players don’t have any loyalty to Celtic and if their agents can arrange a move to the EPL or any big bucks league they will. They will be replaced but Rodger’s won’t do it on the same budget as Ange and I doubt he will be as lucky as Ange with the players gelling quickly and becoming successful faster than any one thought. No one gave us a prayer of winning the league in season 1 until March.
I suppose we could be that lucky again. However it is unlikely especially as Rodgers extensive recruitment strategy stretches all the way from Carlisle to Cornwall. Or major European leagues. With the money from sales and the 35 million he will have about 70 million at most. How much can that get you from the EPL?
So what would be a substantial budget for BR to spend in the transfer mk . I think 100m may do it . Armstrong and Christie went for about the same as it cost for Jota and Vickers . After that it’s Pennie’s spent ,