After the joy of edging past Motherwell thanks to a late deflection reality returned for angry bears last night as they tuned in to the Champions League.
Clearly Celtic have more money than their toiling Glasgow rivals but how you spend it is just as important as how much you have.
Arne Engels and Adam Idah were big money signings in the final week of the transfer window but last night’s goalscorers were the product of advanced scouting matched with capable management. Unknown qualities across the city.
Nicolas Kuhn cost £3m in January from Rapid Vienna, two years earlier a fee of £1m bought Reo Hatate from Kawasaki Frontale.
The combined fees cost less than the money spent on signing Danilo from Ajax and Cyriel Dessers from Cremonese when the Micky Beale Revolution was in full flow.
Celtic paid 3 million for Kuhn btw.
Half of what we paid for Dessers and then Danilo.
The same as what we paid for Matondo.
Just under what we will pay for Cortes.
You can talk about budgets and the money they have compared to us, but the big difference is competent scouting.
— LL_72 (@LL_8997) November 5, 2024
And with those signings the cash flows in, Celtic are picking up £1.7m a win in the Champions League with the final tally from this season likely to be closer to £50m than £40m.
The success is doubled edged, clubs across Europe have been reminded of Kuhn and Hatate, one of them could be sold next summer with the fee likely to surpass that £28m picked up from Brighton for Matt O’Riley.
The €2.1m (£1.743m) earned by Celtic last night is more than the £1.716m cash balance that another Glasgow club recently reported on their Annual Report as of 30 June 2024.
— x – GrandOLTeam (@JBLuvsCeltic) November 6, 2024
It’s a great time to be a Celt, sevco actually have helped make it so, hat tip to them.
It must be statement o’clock time over at ibrox from The CHISLER Mr King.
No doubt should sevco fail on any front tomorrow night,rather NEGATIVE headlines calling that klub out,there will be more squirrel stories doing the rounds that investors are ready to throw money into the new klub from ibrox with the promise of big time players on big price transfer fees with wages of the radar.
After all they will need some good news about their klub to ease the pain,even though we all know it will be BIG DONALD FAKE NEWS stuff.
I like the ones that they post with pure bitter angry rage
and other level headed huns reply to tell them they’re talking sh*te
The “Mason Boyne” types!
Who are permanently R A G I N’
Whats HILARIOUS is when Leipzig scored then its “Yaaasss they’ll PUMP them Dortmundesque, shown up fur what they are” Fast Fwd an hr.. “Leipzig are SHITE, making the Tims look good” lol! So a team thats 2nd in the Bundesliga that coz we beat them are SHITE but a team that PUMPED the FILTH 4-1 Lyin 11th in their League are Budget wise oot ae their League so its no a FAIR FIGHT BAWAHAHAHAHAHA!!