The Ibrox hero delivered his verdict after a sobering night in Europe for Glasgow's big two
Graeme Souness admits Celtic and Rangers' midweek woes in Europe comes down to the simple question of economics and where the money is in football - in a cruel reminder of how the game has evolved.
Rangers legend Souness reckons the sobering week for Scottish football is a stark reminder how the modern day game has evolved in for clubs north of the border. He used the numbers behind Rangers' earnings last year between domestic and TV money in comparison to the figure his local team Bournemouth - who have 11,000 home fans - pocketed to show the drastic gulf in the financials.
"Celtic faced a Dortmund team who lost 5-1 at Stuttgart two weeks ago and had to come from 2-0 down to beat Bochum last week, so Brendan Rodgers’ thinking would have been: ‘We’re firing on all cylinders and they’re not, so we can go there and take them on and outscore them’. I can understand that thinking, but it didn’t happen and Celtic came unstuck on a grand scale, losing 7-1.
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