Money played a significant part in those decisions but so to does the lack of any pathway into first team football. That door has been closing ever since Kieran Tierney broke through in 2015.
Tapping into the speculation Anthony Joseph dug into his archives to share an image from the summer of 1997 which had more than a few Celtic fans putting 2 and 2 together and guessing at the fourth signing.
One theory that is being put around is that Celtic are looking to reveal Kwan and Yang Hyun-jun while they are in Japan but that has been blown out of the water by the announcements from Buson Ipark and Gangwon.
Fiorentina have been strongly linked with Livakovic recently but no deal has yet gone through with the ‘keeper under contract until June 2024 which suggests that he could be on the move this summer.
Towards the end of the season it became clear the influence that Carter-Vickers exerts over the whole defence with Jota as influential as any attacker.