Rangers players earn on average less than half of their Celtic counterparts

[Gary Wilmot's Wedding Brek 288]

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The gulf between Celtic and Rangers both on and off the pitch has been underlined by a new report which reveals that Brendan Rodgers' table-toppers receive more than double their counterparts in Govan.

The 2016 Sporting Intelligence Global Sports Salaries Survey reveals Celtic players have an average annual income of £717,860, with the Rangers squad each only taking in basic pay of £316,888.

Celtic are ranked 60th when it comes to comparing football clubs around the globe, with Rangers lagging behind in 102nd place.

The survey, which considers the wages of nearly 10,000 sportsmen around the world, also highlights the disparity between the two Glasgow clubs and the rest of the Scottish Premiership.

Seven Premiership sides occupy the bottom seven places among the 333 teams surveyed across seven sports, with Hamilton Academical's average salary of £42,606 the lowest.

Aberdeen players are said to earn on average £134,670 while Hearts and Dundee players have respective figures of £86,890 and £61,837.

[Gary Wilmot's Wedding Brek 288]

I did a fag packet calculation to find that on a squad of 24 players, there's a shortfall between the two squads of £8.5 million. I guess £3.5 million in merchandising and advertising lost through Sports Direct makes up a significant component of the difference. Would a return to European football makeup the other £5 million? Certainly seems to fit with King's assessment that we need European football to challenge again.

A second point worth taking is that our budget clearly dwarfs that of any other club, including Aberdeen. There is little doubt that securing second place in the league should be a simple affair judging by the money we've spent on the playing squad. Sadly, Warburton's complete inability to manage our football team is making this foregone conclusion into an increasingly doubtful event. The sooner he's sacked and someone decent brought in the better. We need someone who actually understands that a draw against the likes of Ross County and Hamilton is unacceptable. Someone who can actually get a team organised defensively at corners. Someone who doesn't demand his keeper and defenders embark upon a suicidal, always play it out from the back approach. Someone that actually knows how to change the course of a match. Someone that can see Kiernan is a diddy who should never play for Rangers again. It's not much to ask is it?

[ForeverAndEver 3,271]

2 minutes ago, Gary Wilmot's Wedding Brek said:

I did a fag packet calculation to find that on a squad of 24 players, there's a shortfall between the two squads of £8.5 million. I guess £3.5 million in merchandising and advertising lost through Sports Direct makes up a significant component of the difference. Would a return to European football makeup the other £5 million? Certainly seems to fit with King's assessment that we need European football to challenge again.

A second point worth taking is that our budget clearly dwarfs that of any other club, including Aberdeen. There is little doubt that securing second place in the league should be a simple affair judging by the money we've spent on the playing squad. Sadly, Warburton's complete inability to manage our football team is making this foregone conclusion into an increasingly doubtful event. The sooner he's sacked and someone decent brought in the better. We need someone who actually understands that a draw against the likes of Ross County and Hamilton is unacceptable. Someone who can actually get a team organised defensively at corners. Someone who doesn't demand his keeper and defenders embark upon a suicidal, always play it out from the back approach. Someone that actually knows how to change the course of a match. Someone that can see Kiernan is a diddy who should never play for Rangers again. It's not much to ask is it?

Oh, look at me, look at me.

Just posting this to try back up your 'fraud' statement.

[MOH_MedalOfHonor 5]

I'm pretty sure that even Lawwell has publicly said that they need to qualify for the CL 3 years out of every 5 to break even, or words to that effect, around a year or two ago.

Even if Rangers were somehow able to find funds to be able to give Warburton the same level of budget as them - if he didn't win the league with that then you will only recoup a small sum of like £2 million for finishing second place and Europa League money is barely anything compared to CL I think

If they didn't qualify for the CL they might have spinned into a loss of multi-millions this season, but they scraeped through. To be honest it's probably best just to terminate this discussion

[Gary Wilmot's Wedding Brek 288]

1 minute ago, ForeverAndEver said:

Oh, look at me, look at me.

Just posting this to try back up your 'fraud' statement.

What part is wrong? You think Warburton isn't clueless and dragging a squad down into mediocrity? I'm astounded that any Rangers fan can think he's anything other than useless.

[ForeverAndEver 3,271]

1 minute ago, Gary Wilmot's Wedding Brek said:

What part is wrong? You think Warburton isn't clueless and dragging a squad down into mediocrity? I'm astounded that any Rangers fan can think he's anything other than useless.

Never dragged any squad down into mediocrity. Squad looked better last season for 6 months since then we've been average as fuck.

With our budget, we should be comfortably second and even challenging at the least, but our team is pish.

Blame lies with both Warburton and King.

[Gary Wilmot's Wedding Brek 288]

So at least we're both agreed upon the fact that Warburton must go. For what it's worth, I think the current squad could do a lot better if they were managed by someone with a modicum of managerial acumen.

[MOH_MedalOfHonor 5]

1 minute ago, Gary Wilmot's Wedding Brek said:

So at least we're both agreed upon the fact that Warburton must go. For what it's worth, I think the current squad could do a lot better if they were managed by someone with a modicum of managerial acumen.

I don't think Warburton must go, the game against Aberdeen last time was a bit of a scrapey win for them, if Rangers win the next few matches against Aberdeen and Hearts and maybe the next OF, then it'll be a clear message to me that Warburton shouldn't go in my opinion

[King Jela 4,673]

17 minutes ago, ForeverAndEver said:

Oh, look at me, look at me.

Just posting this to try back up your 'fraud' statement.

At least that thread was good for a laugh.

[ritchieshearercaldow 2,965]

How much did slitty eyes say they were losing by not having us in the league, they only stepped up this season's budget on the back of the blue pound and the tv money we generate...cunts

[A.T.G 2,866]

Well it fucking shows on the pitch King!!

[NixonRFC 366]

Gotta agree, it certainly shows on the park, whatever they've spent, Brenda has spent it well

[Badger 509]

Aberdeens wage budget was reported a couple of weeks ago as being £6.8m based on published accounts.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37884244

On a squad of 24, that isn't far shy of 300k a player. I'd assume this accounts for staff wages too though.

However the quoted figure in the OP of 130k a player, still leaves a shortfall of £+3.5m when applying it across 24 players. I can't see 50% of aberdeens wage bill going on staff and youth.

[thehost 5,372]

5 hours ago, Gary Wilmot's Wedding Brek said:

I did a fag packet calculation to find that on a squad of 24 players, there's a shortfall between the two squads of £8.5 million. I guess £3.5 million in merchandising and advertising lost through Sports Direct makes up a significant component of the difference. Would a return to European football makeup the other £5 million? Certainly seems to fit with King's assessment that we need European football to challenge again.

A second point worth taking is that our budget clearly dwarfs that of any other club, including Aberdeen. There is little doubt that securing second place in the league should be a simple affair judging by the money we've spent on the playing squad. Sadly, Warburton's complete inability to manage our football team is making this foregone conclusion into an increasingly doubtful event. The sooner he's sacked and someone decent brought in the better. We need someone who actually understands that a draw against the likes of Ross County and Hamilton is unacceptable. Someone who can actually get a team organised defensively at corners. Someone who doesn't demand his keeper and defenders embark upon a suicidal, always play it out from the back approach. Someone that actually knows how to change the course of a match. Someone that can see Kiernan is a diddy who should never play for Rangers again. It's not much to ask is it?

did you do any calculations on the inept nature of the boards commercial endeavours?

[WeirFleckNRothen 891]

Hamilton, top flight footballers, earning on average £40K per-annum is grim.

Only in Scotland would a proessional footballer pull in Sugar Cube, then have to go halfers on the taxi home.

That wee ginger-headed boy from Hamilton that nutmegged Barton and sent Kranjcar for a hotdog before scoring was probably on £7.50 per-hour, double-time.

[loyalfollower 578]

6 hours ago, Gary Wilmot's Wedding Brek said:

I did a fag packet calculation to find that on a squad of 24 players, there's a shortfall between the two squads of £8.5 million. I guess £3.5 million in merchandising and advertising lost through Sports Direct makes up a significant component of the difference. Would a return to European football makeup the other £5 million? Certainly seems to fit with King's assessment that we need European football to challenge again.

A second point worth taking is that our budget clearly dwarfs that of any other club, including Aberdeen. There is little doubt that securing second place in the league should be a simple affair judging by the money we've spent on the playing squad. Sadly, Warburton's complete inability to manage our football team is making this foregone conclusion into an increasingly doubtful event. The sooner he's sacked and someone decent brought in the better. We need someone who actually understands that a draw against the likes of Ross County and Hamilton is unacceptable. Someone who can actually get a team organised defensively at corners. Someone who doesn't demand his keeper and defenders embark upon a suicidal, always play it out from the back approach. Someone that actually knows how to change the course of a match. Someone that can see Kiernan is a diddy who should never play for Rangers again. It's not much to ask is it?

Just show me the wage total for Leicester city, I'm sure they finished 3 places higher than mega spenders Man City and increasingly further away from Man U Liverpool and chelsea.

wages don't determine ability- people can actually be over paid by error of the board. Most of the time the biggest earners are the best players but not all the time so using that as a stick to beat the manager with when he won't sanction wages just shows the main agenda on Rangers media

[gmcf 4,226]

How do they even get these figures ?

I thought we'd just recently revealed last season's accounts . Are they for last season ?

[Ibroxholm 636]

The amount of money spent is a significant factor but it's by no means everything. If only it was that simple. Scottish football is a backwater in a football world awash with cash at the present time. If we had the money and resources, we could throw away a lot of money on what are effectively second rate players because that is all that Scotland can attract at the present time.

The most important factor is getting value for what you spend whether it's a million or ten million. And not expecting everything to fall into place in a matter of months.

[Juniorsparkie 61]

Interesting reading but you would expect the wages to higher as we have been promoted, the bit in the report that's scary is that without being cheeky are no mark teams paying vastly superior wages. This can't auger well for the future because when we do get a bit of talent he'll be off like a shot if you can expect to triple or quadruple your salary at a relatively small club in comparison.

Must have have saved on win bonuses this season 🙀

Edited Wednesday at 07:22 AM by Juniorsparkie
Bad grandma

[KeyserSoze 1,718]

read what the OP says btw. Read every single word, consider them carefully.

And conclude that that no one gives two fucks.

[A.T.G 2,866]

45 minutes ago, WeirFleckNRothen said:

Hamilton, top flight footballers, earning on average £40K per-annum is grim.

Only in Scotland would a proessional footballer pull in Sugar Cube, then have to go halfers on the taxi home.

That wee ginger-headed boy from Hamilton that nutmegged Barton and sent Kranjcar for a hotdog before scoring was probably on £7.50 per-hour, double-time.

Did they not play Saturday? Would probably have been Time and a half

[K.A.I 8,593]

I'd be more worried if we weren't tbh

[Deanzmeanzheinz 413]

If we continue to operate at this level then we can't win the league. You can win a cup perhaps but over 36-38 games in Scotland and having such a gulf in investment only comes to one outcome.

The Board must realise this and quickly.

[Dazzler 480]

First season back in the top league and some expect us to be sending the same on wages as the soap dodgers!

[born a blue nose 2,861]

Absolutely fuming at this news.

Just not good enough