Conor Mc Cann 
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Let’s take a look at our activity in the transfer market for the past two years, how much we normally spend and how much we recoup from selling players? These figures will all be estimated as the final transfer fee is often not exact, with some fees not being disclosed, so I have used www.transfermarkt.co.uk for my figures.
2013/14
How much did we spend: £ 9.21 million
How much did we make: £19.04 million
Balance: +£9.83 million
Notable Arrivals:
Virgil Van Dijk
Stefan Johansen
Leigh Griffiths
Victor Wanyama
Gary Hooper
Joe Ledley
2014/15
How much did we spend: £1.77 million
How much did we make: £9.8 million
Balance: +£8.03 million
Notable Arrivals:
John Guidetti
Jason Denayer
Craig Gordon
Notable Departures:
Fraser Forster
Georgios Samaras
Beram Kayal
For the current year, we have spent £3.38 million and made £1.96 million from selling players, there is business to do to improve the squad after last night’s exit from the Champions League, but our current balance is minus £1.42 million. The previous years show that we tend to operate at the profit at the end of the transfer windows so our balance ends up at around £8 million pounds in the green. Hypothetically, if we sell Van Dijk for £10 million, our new balance would be plus £11.96 million pounds, so we would have around £4 million to spend on a new centre-back.
Our recent activity has shown that we spend very small amounts on players compared to other teams competing in the Champions League. Our record transfer fee was all the way back intheyear2000, when we bought Chris Sutton for £6.65 million. Although one of the all-time greats, Henrik Larsson was bought for £600,000 – but such a rare talent for that price is very hard to find these days.
We are quite good at making profit from buying players for small amounts and selling them on for much higher to premier league clubs, many people coin this term as a “feeder” club. An example of this would be when we sold Victor Wanyama for £12.5 million to Southampton when we bought him for a measly £900,000! It shows that we operate quite well in the transfer market, but part of me couldn’t help but think, what if we could have kept these players? Would we be performing better in the Champions’ League?
Eric Knott 
Aodhán Ó Conchobhair 
Site Staff 
The problems in keeping all these players are : some want too leave and play in the EPL or some are nearing the end of their contracts and would leave for free anyway When your country is next to a monster in terms of England it is a lot harder when even Championship clubs are paying £4m for players.
yes these figures are all very dandy but when you sell players on for large amounts of money surely it would be best to say spend three quarters of the money you get for them on better players to make your team even stronger and still have some money in the bank mind you i suppose you better ask mr lawell about that one.
Asking Mr Lawell would only get a stupid reply.Remenber last year when he said we needed SEVCO/TRIFC to survive.
To me that was tantamount to treason to our supporters,and one of the reasons I did not renew my season ticket.I will never stop supporting the greatest team in the world,but I can not support a illegal SFA/SPFL,and can not accept the support Celtic give to a band of political supporters the green brigade.Their name spells trouble BRIGADE,and the amount of money (over £100,000) in fines they have cost us to date is not in the best interest of Celtic FC,not to mention our reputational damage.
So there will need to be a number of changes before I go back to Paradise.