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Celtic 2023 - Player Wages
Celtic have a total of 68 players in their home squad. Celtic play in the cinch Premiership, the highest division of football in Scotland.
Celtic total wage bill for 2023 is:
- £20,895,680 per year
- £401,840 per week
The highest earning player in the squad is Callum McGregor earning £32,000 per week.
Active Squad:
| Player Name | Weekly Wage | Yearly Salary | Age | Position | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Callum McGregor | £32,000 | £1,664,000 | 29 | DM | Scotland |
| Cameron Carter-Vickers | £24,000 | £1,248,000 | 24 | D C | U.S.A. |
| Aaron Mooy | £23,000 | £1,196,000 | 31 | DM, AM RLC | Australia |
| Kyôgo Furuhashi | £19,000 | £988,000 | 27 | AM RL, ST | Japan |
| Carl Starfelt | £19,000 | £988,000 | 27 | D C | Sweden |
| James Forrest | £19,000 | £988,000 | 31 | AM RL | Scotland |
| Daizen Maeda | £18,000 | £936,000 | 24 | AM LC, F C | Japan |
| Jota | £17,000 | £884,000 | 23 | AM RL | Portugal |
| Alexandro Bernabéi | £17,000 | £884,000 | 21 | D/WB/AM L | Argentina |
| Josip Juranović | £16,000 | £832,000 | 26 | D/WB RL | Croatia |
| David Turnbull | £16,000 | £832,000 | 23 | AM C | Scotland |
| Liel Abada | £15,000 | £780,000 | 20 | AM R, ST | Israel |
| Joe Hart | £15,000 | £780,000 | 35 | GK | England |
| Oliver Abildgaard | £15,000 | £780,000 | 26 | DM | Denmark |
| Benji Siegrist | £15,000 | £780,000 | 30 | GK | Switzerland |
| James McCarthy | £14,000 | £728,000 | 31 | DM | Ireland |
| Giorgos Giakoumakis | £12,000 | £624,000 | 27 | ST | Greece |
| Reo Hatate | £12,000 | £624,000 | 24 | D/WB L, M C | Japan |
| Matt O'Riley | £12,000 | £624,000 | 21 | DM | Denmark |
| Sead Hakšabanović | £12,000 | £624,000 | 23 | AM LC | Montenegro |
| Anthony Ralston | £8,500 | £442,000 | 23 | D/WB R | Scotland |
| Greg Taylor | £8,200 | £426,400 | 24 | D/WB L | Scotland |
| Scott Bain | £7,600 | £395,200 | 30 | GK | Scotland |
| Yôsuke Ideguchi | £6,000 | £312,000 | 25 | DM | Japan |
Going by the above the club is about to free up £40K p/w with the departures of Mooy and Jota and coupled with the reported transfer fees from the pending Jota transfer the club is well-resourced for squad improvement.
Calmac is our highest earner and rightly so. When I've heard the wage-structure mentioned in the past I never considered that going outside it would result in a new signing earning more than Calmac. They would have to be some signing to justify such a scenario imo.
Recent talk about a Kieran (120k p/w) Tierney doing a reboot is put in perspective when you consider GT earns 6.83% of what KT earns per week. Not hard to see where the value is. Bit of a shocker that Bernabei is on twice that of GT but his contract's up in '25 so hopefully the board will do right by GT sooner rather than later.
The club had a very good signing success rate during the Ange era. Given he was here to the end of the season I'd expect Ange had considerable input to summer target selection and the Tilio signing would suggest that. The club moved forward during the previous Rodgers era and outside of utter incompetence or gross interference from the board I'd expect that trend to continue in this second era.
The Sevconians have freed up a lot of wages with recent departures but they've nothing to put up for transfer fees. I know a song about that, ironically written by a band they now have a business partnership although I doubt Bon Scott would have even given them The Jack.
