GRAEME SOUNESS has dangled the idea of Celtic and Rangers sharing the same stadiums, ditching their respective stadiums to build a 100,000-seater arena.
The former Ibrox man, who was binned by Sky Sports, suggested the idea after discussing the poor Champions League campaign for the two sides. Again, he’s dragged Celtic into the discussion to save Rangers’ embarrassment.
Building, and sharing a 100,000-seater stadium would help bridge the gap between the Glasgow sides and the Premier League sides. It’s all becoming very Super League feeling now.
Souness told the Daily Mail, relayed by Football Scotland, his idea;
“It has been a dire Champions League campaign for the two Glasgow clubs, who so far have mustered just four goals and two points between them from ten games.
“It is a disappointment for Scottish football but people ask me why they are uncompetitive. Well, I live in Bournemouth where the club has an 11,000-seater stadium but play in the Premier League on the back of annual TV income upwards of £90million.
“Celtic and Rangers are huge clubs with massive fanbases and capacities in excess of 50,000 but their TV money is about £2m or £3m a year. So there is your answer.
“If they agreed to build a 100,000-capacity stadium to share and joined the Premier League they would soon be top-half clubs. I would have them down here in a heartbeat. The rest of Scottish football would not collapse. It would simply have to find its own level.”
It would mean Celtic and Rangers working together; something that will never happen.
Let’s just point to Celtic’s statement they released 18 months ago, where they simply put, “We’re not half of anything.”
🍀 Celtic Football Club Statement:
We’re not half of anything… 🙄
Not our problem.#OneClubSince1888
— Celtic Football Club (@CelticFC) March 9, 2021
It’s a ludicrous idea. I’ve not got a clue why he’s thought of this, and then believed it was a good enough idea to voice.
