Celtic and Rangers leaving the Scottish Premiership?
This would be superb for the rest of the clubs in Scotland!
Any deal to transport Celtic and Rangers to England would need to include the remainder of the clubs in Scotland enjoying a portion of the money flowing in from Sky and other broadcasters.
We have stated previously that Celtic and Rangers, if remaining in the Scottish Premiership, should be required to stump up £20 Million each per season.
This would effectively be repayment of the £700 million extra revenue, at today’s prices, the Old Firm have enjoyed since they started retaining 100% of home gate receipts in 1980.
The Glasgow clubs have used that “windfall – along with guaranteed revenue from European tournaments – to eliminate competition in the Premiership.
36 years of hurt; nearly four decades of every other club being merely an “also ran”. TWO winners since 1985.
In the same period, Norway, with roughly the same population as Scotland, has had TEN different league champions!
Time for Change.
The £40 Million annual pot could be split £35 Million for the remaining Premiership clubs, £5 Million for the clubs in other divisions.
However, should the proposal to include Celtic and Rangers in a reconstructed English Premier League go through, this could be even more lucrative for the other clubs in Scotland.
Annual tv revenue for football in England exceeded £5 Billion in 2019 – and its going up each year!
Even if the remaining clubs in Scotland only received 1% of this revenue – surely not an over-ambitious target – the windfall would exceed £50 Million per season.
So more than we argued Celtic and Rangers should have to pay to remain in the Premiership.
So, with Celtic and Rangers gone, a expanded Scottish Premiership – perhaps 16 clubs playing each other twice per season – could adjust the split, with 80% to Premiership clubs and 20% to those in lower divisions.
Using this revised formula, each of 16 Premiership club would receive £2 Million per season and twenty four lower division clubs an average over £300,000 each year.
And there would be some Scottish domestic tv coverage revenue to add to that!
Even better news.
Although the average attendances at Aberdeen, Hearts and Hibs matches would be likely to be 17,000 per home match in the new set-up, the financial advantage this would give them over other Premiership clubs would be significantly off-set by the new windfall review every club would enjoy.
Put simply, the revenue advantage of the new Big Three should not be enough to allow boring “in a rows” to develop.
It may well be possible to return to the situation which existed in the Golden Age of Scottish football ( 1950 to 1965), when there were SEVEN different winners of the top league.
In short, Celtic and Rangers leaving would be BRILLIANT!
Time for Change.
— Read on www.scotsman.com/sport/football/rangers/rangers-and-celtic-targeted-in-shock-british-premier-league-plans-3209692
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