Shifting Celtic’s benchmark from better than them to notable European examples

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·18 de junio de 2024

Shifting Celtic’s benchmark from better than them to notable European examples

It looks like theRangers seem to be copying our transfer strategy, albeit with lesser success. We must take advantage of our financial muscle and leave them behind for good.

After years of being second best the Rangers have deployed a new strategy in a bid to keep up with the Scottish Champions Celtic who, as you know, have won 12 titles in the past 13 seasons.

The strategy I’m referring to is in the transfer department and the Ibrox club look like they are copying the way Celtic has been approaching out recruitment, in that we buy players in a certain age bracket and improve them before making a handsome profit.

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The Ibrox club have been doing some recruitment recently that suggests just that. Although the players on the Ibrox radar are of a lower calibre than the ones Celtic are seeking, perhaps due to financial restrictions at their end.

Admittedly they could land a gem amongst those signings, but the market they are trawling is of a lower standard than our own club operates, despite the hype that they are always guaranteed via the Scottish mainstream media (future Real Madrid star etc).

That said, despite the success in our transfer dealings, we have failed to take advantage of our financial muscle on several occasions and in doing so let the Ibrox club think they are closer to us than they believe.

That’s why it’s important we take the chance that is currently presented to us and leave them behind for the foreseeable future. In the past Celtic has been accused of being content with ‘just being better than theRangers.’

Now is the perfect time to use our financial strength and leave them trailing behind for good and instead change our benchmark to the top performing European sides outside the top five mega-rich leagues who have managed to overcome that handicap to compete in European competition much better than Celtic.

That’s where Celtic’s benchmark should be, not just being able to out perform our noisy neighbours.

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