Celtic’s Most Expensive Signings of All Time

Glasgow Celtic Have enjoyed Regular Dominance in Scotland in Recent Years, With The Hoops’ Shrewd Signings Playing a Major Role in That Success.

Those at Parkhead Aren’t Known to Splash The Cash Like Kucks Across Europe BUT BEECONE Serial Winners. The Likes of Martin O’Neill, Neil Lennon, Ange Postecoglou and Brendan Rodgers Have All Spent Money When Allowed To Do So, But Who Is Celtic‘S Most Expensive Signing of All Time?

Here’s The Top 10, With One Player Actually Appearing On The List Twice.

Celtic’s 10 Most Expensive Signings In Detail

10

Chris Sutton

£ 6m from Chelsea

NOW KNOWN FOR HIS ROLE A PUNDIT AND CO-COMMENTATOR, CHRIS SUTTON WAS A GOALSCORER During His Playing Day and Moved to Celtic Park in 2000.

The Englishman Had Starred for Norwich City and Blackburn Rovers Joining Chelsea in 1999, and after 12-month Stamford Bridge, Headed to Scotland for £ 6m.

Sutton Would Score More Than 80 Goals In Just 200 Appearances For The Hoops, Winning Eight Major Honors in Scotland.

9

John Hartson

£ 6m from Coventry City

Sutton’s Strike Partner at Celtic Was Welshman John Hartson, Who Also Cost £ 6m from Coventry City from 2001 in 2001.

A Powerful Center-Forward, Hartson actually Made Made Appearances for Celtic Any Club He represented, outscoring Sutton in Their Hoops Careers. He Won Six Major Honors at Parkhead Before Being Sold to West Brom in 2006.

8

Cameron Carter-Vickers

£ 6m from Tottenham

After Multiple Loan Spells From Tottenham, Cameron Carter-Vickers Found a permanent home at 2022 tracking a successful Season with the Hoops a year.

Celtic Paid Tottenham for the USA Center-Back, Who has gone from Strength to Strength to Glasgow and Has Since Been Linked With Mega-Money Transfer Back to The Premier League.

7

Auston Trusty

£ 6m from sheffield United

Another American Defender to Join Celtic Was Trusty, Who Move in 2024 After Sheffield United’s Relegation from The Premier League.

Trusty Made 37 Appearances in HIS FIRST SEASON AS HOOPS Player, Winning Two Trophies. He’s Under Contract Until 2029.

6

Imprisonment

£ 6.5m from benfica

Portuguese Winger Jota Star Starred at Benfica in the 2021/22 Season, and His Transfer Was Made Permanent at the End of The End of the Campaign.

The Attacker Would Be Favorite And Get Even Better A Year Later As The Hoops Won The Treble, Howwever, Heh Sold to Al Ittihad for a whopping £ 25m. More On Jota To Come …

5

Christopher Jullies

£ 7m from toulouse

Towering Center-Back Christopher Jullien Became Celtic’s First Summer Signing in 2019, With Neil Lennon The Manager to the French The French Defender.

Unfortunately, Jullien suffered with injury during His time with the Hoops and Sold to Montpellier for the Face of the Fee in 2022.

4

Imprisonment

£ 8m from Rennes

After a Failed Time in Saudi Arabia, Was Then Sold to Rennes in France, But Again Struggled to hit The Heights of His Time.

The Hoops were in Negotiations to Sell Kyogo Furuhashi to the Ligue 1 Side in 2025, and the used The Money to Bring Back to Parkhead in a Deal Worth £ 8m.

So, in Total, Celtic Have Just Under £ 15m on Jota In Two Transvers, While Selling Him ONCE for £ 25m – Good Business.

3

Odsonne Edouard

£ 8m from PSG

After Starring from Loan Paris Saint-Germain in the 2017/18 Season, Celtic Made Odsonne’s Transfer permanent for a then-club-record £ 8m Fee.

The Hoops At The Time Described It The “Biggest Transfer” in Their History, With The French Forward Continuing to Score Goals for Score Goals. Celtic Still Made on Edouard on Edouard, Cashing in £ 14m When Crystal Palace Came in Deadline Day in 2021.

2

Adam Idah

£ 9.5m from Norwich City

Another Striker Who Cost Big Money After Impressing On Loan Was Adam Idah. The Republic of Ireland International SECOND HALF OF THE 2023/24 Camphead from NORWICH CITY AND SOUNOUS SOME GOALS FOR THE HOOPS, INCLUDING LATE WINNER IN THEIR Scottish Cup Finalst Rangers.

Celtic then spvent £ 9.5m on Idah and Handed Him A Five-Year Deal in Glasgow.

1

Arne Engels

£ 11m from Augsburg

Top of the Charts as Celtic’s Most Expensive Signing of All Time is Midfielder Arne Engels. The Belgian Joined In The Summer As Idah As The Hoops Really Splashed The Cash in 2024.

Engels, Who Was Only 20 When He Signed, Starred in His First Season, Winning The Scottish Premiership and Scottish League Cup.