by Football Genius Sat Mar 08, 2008 1:12 am
The biggest problem they would have, is to attract top players that other more appealing teams in the league might also want.
Put yourself in a players shoes for a moment, do you go and live in Glasgow, wheres its cold and whether you speak english or not can't understand any of the locals.
Or go to London where there are numerous top teams, where fellow national team mates might be living, and have great shops and a vast array of women and entertainment.
Irrespective of whether after a few years the revenue gave them money, ultimately i don't believe these scottish clubs have the appeal a top London team does, Manchester United, and even other english teams such as Liverpool, Villa, perhaps Newcastle that aren't based in London etc simply due to the fact these are proven Premiership teams and are far more stable. Which as a result would be in the short to medium period provide a better competitive edge by understanding the league and teams and can quite conceivably compete equally fiancially and commercially as relatively large clubs with history.
The fact is, the competition below the scottish boarder would make it in the immediate future incredibly difficult to compete at the highest level consistantly, and in the long run i believe the attraction to play for these clubs would be comprimised by joining the English league as there are many large recognised clubs they would be competiting with, the extra games at the pace of the premiership of course would affect them and larger squad would need to be created, and of course this costs.
Not to mention the fundamental questions, as to why just Celtic and Rangers are eligible to qualify and not other Scottish squads, would these two teams enter the FA Cup for example of the Scottish equivilant?
It just is not going to happen, the only way that these types of teams would ever compete with English teams in a league format is if we created a UK league including Northern Island, Wales and Scotland, this is highly unlikely as the English teams would dominate potentially setting back Wales, Scotland and N.Ireland in respect to their international teams E.G the Scottish players playing in the Champions league for scottish teams are unlikely to qualify for the Champions League if they joined the EPL, thus not helping they players to progress, unless they are bought and then of course that would be at the detriment to these clubs - loseing their best players.
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