Scottish Football is Useless

[2lb_saucermeat]

It maybe could have been better worded but I got the jist of it from the get go, in that the OF and their support are blaming the rest of Scottish football for their general malaise? eg "Scottishh football is crap, so that is why we the old firm are crap?"

 

It is a well publicised fact that the OF wish to leave Scottish football to improve their financial situation, especially now that Walter Smith has come out and stated that HBOS is pulling the financial strings Glasgow Rangers Football Club now and every player is for sale. So is Scottish football the reason that the Old firm are struggling to compete on the big stage or is it their own mismangement?

 

I believe thats a combination of both Penfold.

 

Gone (thankfully) are the days of spending money on overrated players wages and transfer fees, which only Rangers were guilty of. Tore A Flo for £12m, they were NEVER going to get anywhere near that back, plus his wages were probably nearly the whole teams wages now put together.

 

Other players which were on about £50,000 p/w Frank De Boer, Lorenzo Amoruso, even not that long ago with the likes of Boumsong etc.

 

Rangers are paying now for their own mis management however the league have a bit of the blame also.

 

The decision to reject Sky TV's offer a few years ago for Television rights for about £125m was suggested by the Awld Firm and Aberdeen, but rejected by the nine other greedy SPL teams wanting more money from a less stable Setanta, a gamble which was wrong.

 

Also mis management from the hierarchy of SPL directors etc., just a shambles.

 

Basically what Im trying to say, is Rangers have done this to themselves, but with a little help along the route

[Shoogler]

Tore Andre Flo was sold for £9.5 million (christ knows how)

Boumsong was signed on a free and sold for £8 million to Newcastle.

 

Not disagreeing about the financial largesse of the Advocat days but its not all bad news and some of the transfer dealings have been quitre astute.

 

There have been all sorts of high profile complete flops at Rangers and Celtic (some who haven't even kicked a ball but cost the clubs a fortune) over the last 10 years and more

[jimmy parks]

Regarding Rangers and Celtic flops, how about this line-up:

 

Lionel Charbonnier

 

Stuart Gray; Basil Boli; Rafael Sheidt; Michael Ball

 

Nuno Capucho; Thomas Gravesen; Thomas Buffle;

 

Tore Andre FLo; Tony Cascarino; Jerome Rothen

[2lb_saucermeat]

Tore Andre Flo was sold for £9.5 million (christ knows how)

Boumsong was signed on a free and sold for £8 million to Newcastle.

 

Not disagreeing about the financial largesse of the Advocat days but its not all bad news and some of the transfer dealings have been quitre astute.

 

There have been all sorts of high profile complete flops at Rangers and Celtic (some who haven't even kicked a ball but cost the clubs a fortune) over the last 10 years and more

 

The Boumsong example was maybe no a good one, but Tore Andre Flo was sold for under £7m to Sunderland, a loss of at least £5m, how many players could Rangers buy with that nowadays??

 

Answer - None, because it would go towards paying their debt