Scottish Football (SPFL, Scottish Cup, Bet Fred Cup, Tunnock’s Caramel Wafer Challenge Cup)

Not really.

Celtic have consistently been selling off their best players and having to replace them.

Sevco have consistently been keep hold of their best players and investing significant money into the first team.

Celtic’s main starting XI this season:

GK -Forster - loan
RB - Frimpong - 700k
LB - Taylor - 2m
CB - Ajer - 300K
CB - Jullien - 7m
CM - Brown 4.4m
CM - McGregor - free
RW - Forrest - free
CAM - Christie - 300k
LW - Elyounoussi - loan
ST - Edouard - 7m

Total - £21.7m

Sevco

McGregor - free
Tavernier - free
Helander £4.5m
Goldson £3.5m
Barisic £2.2m
Davis - free
Jack - free
Kamara - 300k
Arfield - free
Kent - 7m
Morelos - 2m

Total - £19.5m

Celtic starting XI cost less than what they got for Kieran Tierney this summer.

Celtic continually underfund their starting XI, they go into most new seasons having to replace one of their best players.

Sevco generally go into each new season having retained their best players and investing additional funds into the first team.

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What do you mean not really? You obviously have to spend more to compete when you’re a new club. Celtic have an academy and recruitment network which has been built over a long period, Sevco have been a club for 8 years or whatever, some of that in the lower divisions

What I mean is not really.

Celtic go from a position if having to replace their best players every year. Rangers go from a position of improving their squad every year. The logic suggests Celtic should be regressing and Sevco should be progressing.

You also ignored the substantive element to my previous post.

What youth prospects did Sevco lose from the previous incarnation of Rangers?

Whatever about Celtic regressing, Sevco clearly are progressing. They were in the 4th tier not that long ago. Sevco arent as good as Celtic so it’s clear that their players aren’t as sought after as Celtic’s are.

The progression stopped 4 years ago, mate.

They have been outspending a downsizing Celtic for the past 3 or 4 seasons and are getting no closer.

You are contradicting yourself now as a minute ago you were saying Celtic had no competition.

No they haven’t. Celtic have outspent them in that period, Celtic just had more saleable assets so they’ve recouped a lot of it through sales. Sevco were starting from a base of nothing

Where did I contradict myself? Celtic don’t have any competition

No they haven’t.

Celtic have consistently hawked off their best players in that time and used a fraction of that money back in the first team.

Sevco have consistently held onto their best players and invested heavily in the first team.

I posted some figures above for you which you ignored earlier. If you could read you might feel the need to make a fool out if yourself on things you clearly know little about.

They do, there’s a team who are consistently investing money in the first team where Celtic are downsizing. The problem is Sevco are very poorly managed, if they had shrewd people at the helm they would take the title off a Celtic side consistently being downsized.

Rangers fell off a cliff this year despite looking a much better team than Celtic when they met.7

Disharmony in the sevco setup by all accounts. It might finally dawn on the neds that half the team are there for the paycheck, and couldn’t really give a fcuk about the lads down the lodge.
As an aside, Celtic are bound to have a higher player value loss. They’ve had several who’ve become high value targets. Celtic can barely match the wages offered by an English championship team, never mind the EPL, so, when they come knocking, and a player only has a year or two left on contract, Celtic have their hand forced.

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Sevco after splashing out another £5m odd on young Hagi.

Is he any good . The one time I saw him to look a bit weak but tidy .

Hard to know, didn’t really see enough of him and guys like that can start off brightly before fading away.

He looks to be technically very good, can use either foot and has a fair strike on him but I suspect he wouldn’t be one to do it on a wet Wednesday night at Rugby Park.

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That would be my opinion granted on limited viewed

£5m isn’t much money for a team getting to the last 16 of the Europa mate. You’re the one who thought Edouard would get £50m for Celtic

You’re still missing the point.

Celtic sell their best players year on year and reinvest a fraction of that money into rebuilding their first team.

Sevco retain their best players every year and invest a significant amount of money into improving the first team.

Sevco should be pushing Celtic a lot closer with the model Celtic have adopted but have failed miserably.

The money for a team in the last 16 of the Europa League isn’t great.

Celtic have saleable assets and a scouting network built up over a long period of years. Sevco started from scratch as a new club

The timelines of Sevco and RB Leipzig are quite similar.

RB Leipzig have one of the best scouting networks in European football.

Have you got any better excuses?

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RasenballSport Leipzig are run by a multi billion dollar company mate

And regularly hawk off their best players for a profit.

Sevco hold onto their best players while investing substantially in their first team.