{"id":31855,"date":"2025-09-20T00:42:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/31855\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T00:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:42:06","slug":"celtic-left-with-77m-cash-after-bumper-profit-in-year-end-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/31855\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic left with \u00a377m cash after bumper profit in year end accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lawwell hailed a &#8220;memorable&#8221; year &#8220;both on and off the pitch&#8221;, during which Celtic won the league and League Cup, reached the Champions League last 16, but lost the Scottish Cup final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He suggested the &#8220;gains were largely reinvested into the squad, aligned to the club&#8217;s commitment to sustained on-field success&#8221;. And he pointed to the transfer record being breached twice amid a \u00a342.6m investment in players. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That takes Celtic&#8217;s total spend on players and agent fees over the previous three years to \u00a377.5m, Lawwell added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Those figures do not include any money spent on 11 signings this summer, among them Benjamin Nygren, Kieran Tierney, Michel-Ange Balikwisha and Sebastian Tounekti.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Lawwell said the club &#8220;recognise and share the frustration and disappointment&#8221; of fans about how their summer recruitment went.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The board shares the ambition of our supporters to see the strongest possible team on the pitch,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will continue to balance short-term performance with long-term financial stability, and we must factor in the long-term implications of decisions made today. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This strategy is vital to Celtic and has been pivotal to our success over 20 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawwell hailed a &#8220;memorable&#8221; year &#8220;both on and off the pitch&#8221;, during which Celtic won the league and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-31855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}