Rangers will need to match Celtic's £24million wage spend to challenge...

[RANGERRAB 3,254]

Is the yahoos wage bill £24m ? can anyone confirm this ?

[ian1964 10,409]

Is the yahoos wage bill £24m ? can anyone confirm this ?

 

Found this,no idea how accurate it is though?

 

http://tsmplay.com/football/celtic-players-salaries/

 

 

 

STV - http://stv.tv/sport/football/1321105-celtics-average-wage-bill-is-25-times-higher-than-ross-countys/

Edited April 5, 2016 by ian1964

[JTP 0]

Whilst I agree we need to invest in order to compete with them, when was the last time we had a manager who was extremely financially minded when it comes to "value"?

 

If it were Ally/Walter yeh we'd need to throw money at it galore.

 

However MW may get us to compete with half the required deficit.

[Bluedell 5,329]

Is the yahoos wage bill £24m ? can anyone confirm this ?

 

Celtic FC Ltd's wage bill was £26m, although that was for more than the players.

 

The PLC's wage bill, which includes the directors was £29m.

[26th of foot 5,827]

Celtic FC Ltd's wage bill was £26m, although that was for more than the players.

 

The PLC's wage bill, which includes the directors was £29m.

 

I believe Dutch ace, Derk Boerrigter takes a third of that £26million. He cost £3million from Ajax some three seasons past, a work in progress I hear?

[ian1964 10,409]

Celtic FC Ltd's wage bill was £26m, although that was for more than the players.

 

The PLC's wage bill, which includes the directors was £29m.

 

All that cash advantage over the rest of Scottish football and not a treble in sight!,embarrassing displays/results in Europe! and lots of fines!,empty stadium!............

[ian1964 10,409]

I believe Dutch ace, Derk Boerrigter takes a third of that £26million. He cost £3million from Ajax some three seasons past, a work in progress I hear?

 

Derk Boerrigter 28 Center Forward weekly wage £19,500

 

CELTIC have finally binned Derk Boerrigter – one of the few Dutchmen who didn’t look like he could play football.

 

Boerrigter joined from Ajax in 2013 and the fee reported at the time was a whopping £3million.

 

We say whopping because in nearly three years the winger played just 514 minutes of first-team football – and not one second this season!

 

In campaign 2014/2015 he managed only 32 minutes of action.

 

To top it all he scored just ONE goal in three miserable seasons – a last-minute winner against Aberdeen in November 2014.

 

That transfer fee works out at a staggering £5,495 per minute of action – and that’s not counting wages.

 

Read more at http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/celtic-finally-pay-derk-boerrigter-7685188#FFv4tfl3yLDjojmY.99

Edited April 5, 2016 by ian1964

[aweebluesoandso 290]

A £24mil wage bill for the utter dross they have, don't think so. We'll have a better team then them next season for quarter or less of the price.

[ian1964 10,409]

Mark Warburton not content with ‘doing a Hearts’ next season

 

Mark Warburton believes expectations are so high at Rangers that emulating what Hearts have achieved this season would not be considered a success.

 

This time last year Hearts had already wrapped up the Championship title, which Rangers hope to do by beating Dumbarton at Ibrox tonight. They were left frustrated in their ambitions to secure their top-flight return by Raith Rovers’ late equaliser on Saturday.

 

But while Hearts are likely to finish third in their first season back in the Premiership, Rangers, who have not played in the top tier since 2011-12, are aiming for higher. According to Warburton, Rangers are under even more pressure to hit the ground running.

 

Warburton is confident he can live with the pressure wrought by being compared with Old Firm rivals Celtic, currently bidding to overcome the challenge from Aberdeen to win a fifth successive league title.

 

“How well we close that gap will be about how competitive we are but Rangers will never go into that league satisfied with being third or fourth,” he said.

 

Warburton made it clear Rangers, because of their rivalry with Celtic and media exposure, are operating under a greater weight of expectation than Hearts, whose achievements so far this season he praised.

 

“I took Robbie Neilson to Brentford,” he said. “He’s done a magnificent job at Hearts. He was an outstanding player. I watched how he conducted himself as a pro. He was great for Brentford, great for me in my role and all credit to him. If we came third or fourth next year, is that seen as successful for Rangers? What would be the reporting if we came third or fourth?

 

“The expectation you talk about this year will be just as strong next year, if not more so because we’re back in the top flight, so we’re well aware of the expectation. What we have to do is to keep on going forward. If we’ve won this league and hopefully the Petrofac Cup [v Peterhead on Sunday) and we think that’s enough, then we’re going to flounder.

 

“Therefore getting the environment and the recruitment right are massive for us,” he added. “It doesn’t mean you have to have the biggest budget.

 

“Hopefully we can recruit wisely and add value and quality. If we can do that then I think you’ll look at me and say fourth isn’t good enough.”

 

There is an early chance to judge the Ibrox side’s worth against Celtic a week on Sunday, when the sides meet at Hampden Park in a Scottish Cup semi-final. But it is next season when the pressure really will be on Rangers to match Celtic over the course of a whole campaign.

 

Warburton was not going to risk being lured into claiming outright that Celtic, or Aberdeen, should welcome another potential title challenger. But his point seemed unmistakable: can Rangers afford to aim their sights any lower?

 

“I’ll throw the question back at you,” he said. “What’s the expectation of Rangers next year? My expectation is that we have to go into that league and be highly competitive.

 

“I view highly competitive as that we’ve got to be a very, very tough team to beat and to break down and that we go into games expecting to win them.

 

“If we go into games expecting to win them, I’m not going to sit here and say we’re not going to challenge for the league. I’m not going to sit here and say we’re going to win the league.

 

“I’d say that any Rangers team with David [Weir], myself and the staff, will be highly competitive. And we will go in prepared well with a squad of players that I think will match that description.

 

“I’m choosing my words very carefully because I know how you guys will report them.

 

“If you’re a football neutral and you look it and say that Celtic have had X years of European football – Champions League football – and the financial benefits and a squad packed with international players, the neutral will tell you that they will take some beating, absolutely.

 

“And it would be foolish to say otherwise – to go into a game as it currently stands, they have to be favourites.

 

“It would be totally ignorant to say anything other than that but our job is to close the gap. How well we close that gap will be about how competitive we are but Rangers will never go into that league satisfied with being third or fourth.”

 

Read more: http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/competitions/premiership/mark-warburton-not-content-with-doing-a-hearts-next-season-1-4090618#ixzz44wjUuC9W

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Celtic have also done another little "cheat" to keep them ahead - as long as they use their initial financial advantage. The prize money for second place is much reduced, which they got through by appealing to the greed of the less ambitious teams by spreading that second place money throughout the league.

 

If they can assert their finances to beat us to the title the first season, their financial advantage is extended, and the point being that the hit for second place money would be relatively worse for us than them. Although I think they did this in the overconfidence that they'd be well ahead of us when we get back.