Yes it would. You're miles behind the PL teams in terms of commercial deals so even with the TV money you'd be at a disadvantage and you'd be charged premier league money for signings, which you'd need about 25 of.You fucker. That wouldn’t happen and you know it.
Yes it would. You're miles behind the PL teams in terms of commercial deals so even with the TV money you'd be at a disadvantage and you'd be charged premier league money for signings, which you'd need about 25 of.
City lost to third tier Wigan in the FA Cup two years ago and that sort of thing happens a lot in the cups. Fourth tier clubs beat Prem clubs! In cup competitions anything can happen, which is why when they’re won in isolation they’re no barometer on the real quality of a side, it’s literally just a cup run.No we wouldn’t. If we were that bad, how did we get two draws against City, beat Leipzig, get out of that group? You are suffering from the EPL delusion that every team in it are world beaters. They’re not. The top six maybe, but we would be able to survive against the rest with a few more bob. After a period of consolidation we would move up the table. It may take four or five seasons to put up a fight for the top four but we would do that.
I know you would never accept that like you don’t accept we have better whisky, but we would and we have. It will never ever happen though. That’s the main thing here. No team would move aside to let us in, and why should they? I wouldn’t if I were them.
Big game mentality. Let's see you do it every week. At best you'd start out as Newcastle with less cash and when you weren't challenging the fairweather overseas fans would desert you and you'd be forced back to the SPL by that.No we wouldn’t. If we were that bad, how did we get two draws against City, beat Leipzig, get out of that group? You are suffering from the EPL delusion that every team in it are world beaters. They’re not. The top six maybe, but we would be able to survive against the rest with a few more bob. After a period of consolidation we would move up the table. It may take four or five seasons to put up a fight for the top four but we would do that.
I know you would never accept that like you don’t accept we have better whisky, but we would and we have. It will never ever happen though. That’s the main thing here. No team would move aside to let us in, and why should they? I wouldn’t if I were them.
Big game mentality. Let's see you do it every week. At best you'd start out as Newcastle with less cash and when you weren't challenging the fairweather overseas fans would desert you and you'd be forced back to the SPL by that.
City lost to third tier Wigan in the FA Cup two years ago and that sort of thing happens a lot in the cups. Fourth tier clubs beat Prem clubs! In cup competitions anything can happen, which is why when they’re won in isolation they’re no barometer on the real quality of a side, it’s literally just a cup run.
I would say the current Celtic side are no better than a mid table Championship side and Rangers bottom three Championship.
If they were both in the Prem this season they’d comfortably be the bottom two.
After a few years they’d have new owners but couldn’t spend the money to really do much for years because of FFP. Like I said in another thread, Huddersfield earnt more money than Atlético Madrid last season because of Prem prize money and TV revenue being on another planet to the rest of world football, so Celtic and Rangers would just be competing with everyone else for the same money.
Big clubs get relegated from the Prem all the time too: City Newcastle Sunderland Villa SheffWeds Leeds have all spent time outside the top flight in recent decades.
Considering that this a hypothetical situation thread could I put forward a hypothetical scenario.
If both Rangers and Celtic were established PL teams with a couple of cup wins and top 4 finishes how would their supporters vote on Scottish Independence if it meant both clubs being excluded from the PL if Scotland became independent and had to start at the bottom of the Scottish leagues? With also the accompanying bankruptcy issues.
Would football tribalism win over nationalism?