Michael Nicholson owes Celtic fans an explanation and here’s the £11m reason they’re right to demand one – Hugh Keevins

February 9, 2025 sportnet247 football 0

Michael Nicholson owes Celtic fans an explanation and here’s the £11m reason they’re right to demand one – Hugh Keevins

 

Last Tuesday morning, the bank accounts belonging to tens of thousands of Celtic supporters had £46 withdrawn from them.

The money was then made payable to Celtic Football Club to cover the cost of a seat to watch Brendan Rodgers’ side play Bayern Munich at home on Wednesday night. Absolutely no quibble with the price of the ticket, of course. It’s the Champions League knockout stage. Bayern are among European football’s aristocracy.

 

Then there’s the visit of Harry Kane, England’s all-time top scorer and the striker who has more goals for the Bundesliga club than he has appearances for Vincent Kompany’s free-scoring side. It’s a snip at the price. They estimate that every home game Celtic play in the Champions League brings in, give or take, £11million in revenue.

It’s the sort of money you might pay for a player of decent quality if you were looking for one after your top goalscorer had left for another country, for example.

Hours after Celtic’s season-ticket holders had paid up for the privilege of watching their team return to the biggest club competition of them all, Rodgers sat down inside the press room at Lennoxtown.

And he made public his belief that the squad at his disposal was, the day after the January transfer window had closed, “lighter” than it had been when trading began on New Year’s Day. Having spent a working lifetime observing the mannerisms of every Celtic manager since Jock Stein, Rodgers’ demeanour made him, to my way of thinking,

I think if you fork out £11m in gate money for one match that makes you more than just a customer. That makes you entitled to an explanation of what went wrong with regard to the January transfer window. Or is it just me?

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