It is a lot to do with money, but not the way Smith's put it.CollieBuddz wrote:Covered everything in the OP.
Thick twats, the SPL is a graveyard of footballers. It means fuck all that they have CL football. So does FC Vaslui.
It's nothing to do with money. If you move to the SPL you've basically brought your career to an end. You're almost guaranteed to a win a mickey mouse league and make an appearance in the CL. That's all.
You move to the Championship and if you get promoted you're rubbing shoulders with some of the best players in the world. You get a chance to show that you have the ability to play with that calibre of player week in-week out and a possible move to a big club in England.
The thing that pisses me off with the SPL is that people think that because they border us on a small island that we should somehow be grouped together and that we should be mentioned in the same sentence. When in actual fact, they just border us but couldn't be further from us in quality. They're on par with leagues in Romania and shit like that. No one would mention the Romanian league in the same sentence as the Prem and shouldn't be any different with the SPL.
The English leagues have far more financial support. The difference wasn't quite so big 10-15 years ago when a fair few players' careers actually took off in the SPL. Man Utd are what, £600m in debt or something, whereas Rangers could hardly cope with £25m. More people takeover English clubs as well now, freeing up more money for them to spend.
When someone eventually does take over a Scottish club like that, they are much more competitive, look at Hearts in 2006 and Gretna as well (although that ended badly).
