Ally McCoist slams UEFA in new Rangers Champions League rant live on talkSPORT.
Ally McCoist has slammed UEFA for claiming that Rangers and Celtic are no longer able to participate in the Champions
League because only a few clubs have the financial resources to win it.
In a conversation about whether the Champions League has gotten stale due to the same clubs competing for the title year
after year, the Rangers great cited Porto, Marseille, and Red Star Belgrade as examples of clubs who have reached the final.
McCoist argued it is now unachievable since the financial gap is too large, as evidenced by Rangers and Celtic’s troubles in the group stage, and that gap is only going to widen.
McCoist told talkSPORT [08:14] that Rangers and Celtic struggle to compete in the group rounds. The great majority of this is due to finances.
“I think the problem that I have with it is it’s just going to keep going until there will be only three or four clubs capable of
winning it, and the three or four clubs are the richest clubs in Europe.”
Ally McCoist claims Rangers cannot compete in the Champions League
The financial resources of Manchester City, Real Madrid, PSG, and Bayern Munich make it impossible for Old Firm clubs to
compete in UEFA championships, as McCoist correctly points out.
The term ‘The rich get richer’ is frequently used in football, although it is perhaps most commonly associated with the Champions
League. Rangers and Celtic struggle to fully benefit from UEFA events, despite the importance of the money.
Manchester City, on the other hand, expects to go all the way through the competition every year, and the more they advance, the
more money they receive. That money is returned to the team, and the process begins again.
With the money involved in the greatest European teams, the gap between those at the top and the hopeful clubs at the bottom
continues to widen, with no relief in sight despite Champions League improvements.
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