Maguire: ‘Unbridgeable’ Celtic and Rangers gap set to expand amid Uefa reveal
The “unbridgeable gap” between Rangers and Celtic and the rest of the Scottish Premiership is set to get bigger amid UEFA’s latest plans.
That is according to finance expert and Football Insider columnist Kieran Maguire, speaking exclusively after Andrea Agnelli’s recent comments regarding the future of the Champions League.
The head of the European Clubs Association claimed that an expanded 36-team Champions League was “very close.”
Under the proposed ‘Swiss system,’ teams would play 10 matches – as opposed to the current six – before advancing to the knockout round of the competition.
More matches equals more revenue and Maguire is adamant that this can only further enshrine Rangers and Celtic’s duopoly on Scottish football.
“The gap, which is already unbridgeable, is only going to get bigger,” he told Football Insider correspondent Adam Williams.
“The direction of travel is only one way as far as Scottish football is concerned. Because they are now 15th in the Uefa rankings, they get two places in the Champions League.
“If both of them get into the existing Champions League the gap would grow but if it’s an expanded Champions League then it would get even quicker.”
Rangers secured their first Scottish Premiership title in a decade last Sunday after Celtic dropped points at Dundee United.
It is the 36th consecutive year in which a club from Glasgow has won the title, with the last team outside the city to lif the trophy being Aberdeen in 1985.
In other news, ex-Celtic man Frank McAvennie claims that the club would be lucky to get £15m for Odsonne Edouard.