Celtic register on football rich list as £54m Treble winners on the rise ahead of Champions League push

Celtic have got a spot in football's top 100 for most spent on their current squad, according to new research.

In new data released by Football Observatory, the Hoops have spent around €63M (£54.2m) on assembling the squad currently at the disposal of Brendan Rodgers, placing them 91st in the world. Any add-ons and loan fees are included in the calculation. Less than £1m of that has been spent on the goalkeeping department and only £10.3m has been splurged in midfield, with shrewd signings like Matt O'Riley and Reo Hatate at cut-price values able to reduce costs. They have also spent seven figures on David Turnbull and Odin Thiago Holm while putting high six-figures towards Kwon Hyeok-kyu during the summer.

Defence is where the biggest amount of Celtic investment has been at the price of £24.1m. Cameron Carter Vickers' loan from Tottenham was made permanent last year for a fee of around £6m and Maik Nawrocki joined this summer from Legia Warsaw for £4.3m. Gustaf Lagerbielke linked up with the Hoops in a deal worth around £3m.

That adds up to over £13m in centre-backs alone before adding the cost of Greg Taylor, Alistair Johnston, Liam Scales, Yuki Kobayashi and Alexandro Bernabei, plus any loan fee they may have incurred for Nat Phillips.

Attack has had a decent chunk of change devoted to it too, coming in at £18m. Main man Kyogo cost £4m of that and new boy Luis Palma was swept up from Aris for roughly £3.5m. Liel Abada's £3.5m deal takes them into eight figure territory without breaking much of a sweat, and they still have Sead Haksabaovic on the books alongside Yang, Daizen Maeda, Marco Tilio and Oh to consider.

Man United come in first place with close to £1 billion on £991.7m - just beating the £977.9m spent by