Rangers - Scottish football

[JustJack]

The Scottish setup is surely the next playground for the middle east cabal, the competition is 2 teams (and even then they'd soon be dwarfed in comparison of finances) with 2 champions league places for 10 teams in the league.

To think Rangers were in the third tier of the pyramid 10 years ago and are now in the Champions League group stage with a guaranteed 25m, you could easily replicate that with any similar team in the pyramid with the cost being 100 times less than their english counterparts in the EPL

Honestly, how much would it cost to buy Kilmarnock and attract decent players to win that league? in comparison to someone like Newcastle?

 

[Darran]

The Scottish setup is surely the next playground for the middle east cabal, the competition is 2 teams (and even then they'd soon be dwarfed in comparison of finances) with 2 champions league places for 10 teams in the league.

To think Rangers were in the third tier of the pyramid 10 years ago and are now in the Champions League group stage with a guaranteed 25m, you could easily replicate that with any similar team in the pyramid with the cost being 100 times less than their english counterparts in the EPL

Honestly, how much would it cost to buy Kilmarnock and attract decent players to win that league? in comparison to someone like Newcastle?

Great and very interesting thought.

 

[J_B]

The Middle Eastern buyers want to win the Champion's League, not just be in it.

Scottish clubs couldn’t attract the very best players to make that possible.

 

[JustJack]

The Middle Eastern buyers want to win the Champion's League, not just be in it.

Scottish clubs couldn’t attract the very best players to make that possible.

Right but once you're in it then you can use silly money to attract the kind of players decent enough to be competitive and make even more money, winning it is another thing, just ask Man City!

Once you attract one decent player on stupid money, another follows and so on.

It's the same model that happened at PSG to a certain degree, they hadn't won the league for 20 years before investment and then just steamrollered everyone and that's in a league with around 20 teams.

 

[Cooperman]

Why would a Middle Eastern entity wish to plough hundreds of millions into Hibs / Hearts / Aberdeen just for the prospect of picking up the SPL (not a gimme considering that it would be a three horse race) and the likelihood of entry into Champions League (which also isn’t guaranteed due to UEFA coefficients moving up and down).

I don’t think that the money men behind PSG sit back and think that they’ve had value for money; winning League 1 does not represent success for them.

 

[jackjackjackjack]

If you've seen the goal, it's very Swansea like. PSV goalie passes ball to defender unnecessarily, who loses it, and Rangers score.

 

[Cooperman]

If you've seen the goal, it's very Swansea like. PSV goalie passes ball to defender unnecessarily, who loses it, and Rangers score.

We don’t score goals like that :lol:

 

[K23]

If you've seen the goal, it's very Swansea like. PSV goalie passes ball to defender unnecessarily, who loses it, and Rangers score.

Yup, a goal straight out of the Swansea City Guide to How to Lose a Game You Should Have Won

 

[Neath_Jack]

The Scottish setup is surely the next playground for the middle east cabal, the competition is 2 teams (and even then they'd soon be dwarfed in comparison of finances) with 2 champions league places for 10 teams in the league.

To think Rangers were in the third tier of the pyramid 10 years ago and are now in the Champions League group stage with a guaranteed 25m, you could easily replicate that with any similar team in the pyramid with the cost being 100 times less than their english counterparts in the EPL

Honestly, how much would it cost to buy Kilmarnock and attract decent players to win that league? in comparison to someone like Newcastle?

They be better off buying TNS

 

[RodgerTheDodger]

The Rangers goal was an excellent example of a well worked rush press. Line of three across the 30-40 metre line to block the channels so the defence can't move it forward, when a man gets isolated two guys rush through forcing a mistake, one goal side of him so he can't pass sideways. He *must* beat his man or its probably a goal - or he can knock it out of bounds which will get him shouted at.

It's what Italy did to England, it's what every team that have done their preparation now do to Swansea. There are counters, buts they are all forbidden at Swansea. It's a shame that no tactical ideas developed since 2010 are permitted to be used, it means the team will always struggle.

Rangers did it by having two of the line of three rush forward, to be replaced 'in step' by men from behind them. That was a drill.

 

[Swanseastar]

I think the comparison with PSG only holds up if these money men bought Celtic or Rangers and tried to win the champions League with them. Over 50k stadiums and global support can attract big names with the right money no matter how bad the rest of the league is. I'm not sure even with silly money you would get Neymar etc to Dundee.