Finance Expert: Celtic may have wasted Rangers advantage after update on Parkhead millions

Dan Plumley has insisted that Celtic may have wasted their advantage over Rangers after finishing top in the Scottish Premiership last season.

It comes after Stephen McGowan insisted that the Bears got creative in the January transfer window, as the Hoops left millions burning in their back pocket.

The football finance expert admitted that whoever finishes top and gets automatic Champions League qualification has the financial advantage in Scotland, but it can be wasted, with Rangers currently top of the league.

“It’s different strategies,” he exclusively told Ibrox News.

“You can trace that back financially as well and look at the dynamics, whichever club gets the title and the Champions League automatically has that advantage financially.

“Now, you can waste that advantage, of course you can, but that’s where you have to be smarter with your strategy and if you’re the club that finishes second in that mix with Rangers and Celtic, then you have to adjust plans and it will be the same probably for a long time to come given the nature of the hierarchy in Scottish football and we’ve yet to see a club being able to break that.

“It does mean a different change of strategy, I guess the question is whether these are deliberate strategy plays or whether or not it’s a plan A, plan B based on where you finish the season prior.

“There is a big swing revenue wise linked to that Champions League distribution, as we know, so sometimes your hand is forced a little bit and that can work in your favour, so it’s not necessarily as easy as saying you win the title, you get that extra money and everything is going to work out great because the pressure is on both clubs and it will swing.”