The 2025 summer transfer window at Celtic Park was a blur of early arrivals, then speculation, and second-guessing. Eleven players came through the door, a full team’s worth, though it’s been rumoured that Brendan Rodgers only truly wanted three, if nobody left that is…
It was an unbalanced summer, rich in early promise but also fraught with questions of fit, patience, and planning. With the season a couple of months old, we can start to separate the early success stories from the slow burners and the outright mysteries.
Let’s have a recap to remind ourselves of all the new arrivals at Celtic in or just after the summer transfer window closed…
Sebastian Tounekti – Forward (Hammarby) – 8/10
This lad has looked exciting from the off. An ideal rotation option for Jota when he finally returns, Tounekti’s game feels cut from the same cloth. He commits defenders, can go either way, and switches comfortably between flanks. He’s raw, yes, but thrillingly direct, a winger in the old mould, or, as Rodgers himself has said, “a Celtic winger.”
He still makes the wrong choice now and then, but that’s part of his charm. His fearlessness lights up the wings, and he’s beginning to find chemistry with the full-backs. Given the minutes he’s had and the flashes he’s produced, Tounekti has to be counted a qualified success already. If his trajectory continues, he’ll be impossible to ignore when the business end of the season comes around.
