Martin O’Neill issues response to Graeme Souness’ bizarre claim about Celtic and Rangers
Graeme Souness certainly caused a stir yesterday with comments about Celtic and Rangers after the Glasgow Derby on Sunday.
Celtic hammered Rangers 3-0 in a performance where, if everyone is honest with themselves, Brendan Rodgers’ team never really got out of second gear.But when Graeme Souness claimed that the gap between Celtic and Rangers is still not that big after Rodgers’ sixth game in charge unbeaten against the Ibrox club, Martin O’Neill responded emphatically with some home truths for the talkSPORT pundit.
O’Neill: Souness is in denial about Celtic
Speaking after hearing Souness’ comments about Celtic, O’Neill believes that Graeme Souness is in complete denial as he laid out in simple terms exactly where the two clubs are at the moment.
O’Neill told The Football Authorities podcast, “Well, I think that Graeme was trying to convince himself that there’s not a really big gap between the two clubs at the moment, I think.And I took his point in terms of, on the day, you might get close to them but over a season, there is a chasm between the two clubs at the moment, an absolute chasm.
“And the reason is that this is the poorest Rangers side that I’ve probably ever seen.
“I don’t know who is doing the recruitment there. But I understand that they don’t have any money, so that doesn’t help a great deal. But surely to heavens, you can recruit better than you’re doing.They’ve been very poor. But each year, they seem to get worse and worse and worse.”
Rangers must accept a Celtic truth
Celtic have been miles ahead of Rangers for many years now. The Parkhead club’s financial results, stadium capacity and the work the board do to set up successful deals with the likes of Adidas have put Celtic in a different stratosphere in terms of finances.The squad on the park has benefitted from that as Brendan Rodgers banked nearly £30m in cash for Matt O’Riley and the Celtic boss immediately spent that on Arne Engels, Auston Trusty and Luke McCowan.
The sooner people connected to Rangers accept the truth about the gap between Celtic and their own club, then the sooner they can put a plan together to close what Martin O’Neill calls a ‘chasm’.
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