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Short changed?

Some really damning figures regarding the amount of money raised (or not raised) by Scottish clubs on player sales

💰 This season Celtic have earned the most from player sales (which won’t surprise anyone) but Celtic B team is in third place 🤯 with Aberdeen separating Celtic first team and B team due to the £6m sale of Bojan Miovski

💰 In the last 10 seasons combined Celtic have brought in more from player sales than the rest of the league combined with £250m (Celtic) - £157m (rest of premiership combined) and Rangers FC make up more nearly half of the combined number with £72m brought in

💰 Despite being ranked as the 14th best league in Europe- and regularly being in the top ten over the last decade - we are 23rd for the amount of money brought in on transfers since 2015 - the comparisons to the kind of money players from other leagues go for compared to Scotland is scandalous

💰 For example in the last ten years there has been over £1bn spent on players from top flights in Turkey and Russian top flights, over 2bn spent on players from Belgian and Dutch top flights and over £4bn spent on players from Portugal’s top flight - while just over £400m spent on players from the Scottish Premiership - when you realise that includes players like Virgil Van Dijk, John McGinn, Jeremie Frimpong and Lewis Ferguson who have all been major successes in 3 of the top 4 leagues then at what point do we start realising how much we undervalue our own talent

💰 It’s not only top flights that earn more with English Championship (£3bn) - Serie B (£906m) - Bundesliga 2 (£902m) - Ligue 2 (650m) and Segunda (£500m) all ahead of the Premiership (£407m)

This season in Scotland
1. Celtic £53m
2. Aberdeen £6.4m
3. Celtic B £3.1m
4. Rangers £1.75m
5. Hearts £1.2m

Last ten years in Scotland
1. Celtic £258m
2. Rangers £72m
3. Aberdeen £20m
4. Hibernian £14m
5. Motherwell £9.8m
6. Dundee United £8.5m
7. Hearts £6.3m
8. Dundee £2.9m
9. St Mirren £2.4m

Compared to other leagues in last 10 years
1. Premier League 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 £10.1bn
2. Serie A 🇮🇹 £9bn
3. Ligue 1 🇫🇷 £7.2bn
4. La Liga 🇪🇸 £6.6bn
5. Bundesliga 🇩🇪 £6.3bn
6. P Liga 🇵🇹 £4.1bn
7. Championship 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 £3bn
8. Eredivisie 🇳🇱 £2.7bn
9. Jupiler 🇧🇪 £2.2bn
10. Premier 🇷🇺 £1.2bn
11. Super Lig 🇹🇷 £1.1bn
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23. Premiership 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 £407m

posted on 17/2/25

all articles must now be furnished with citations.

rod for our own back here

posted on 17/2/25

comment by Changing my name from My POV - but not decided what to change it to yet (U10636)
posted 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
Michael Wimmer the new Motherwell manager. He was supposed to be the new Bristol rovers manager a couple of months ago but got knocked back for a work permit seemingly.

No nothing about him.
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Calm down Dear, it's just an unknown football manager.

comment by Silver (U6112)

posted on 17/2/25

comment by Changing my name from My POV - but not decided what to change it to yet (U10636)
posted 2 hours, 21 minutes ago
comment by Striketeam7 - staying humble (U18109)
posted 6 seconds ago
You need to get back to producing some more how’s Hutton doing type players
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Davie? The guy that buys any house?
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Anyone selling their house to a narcissist that models themself on the fictional Big Man needs to question themselves.

posted on 17/2/25

comment by JFK - Super Nintendo Chalmers (U8919)
posted 1 hour, 40 minutes ago
all articles must now be furnished with citations.

rod for our own back here
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Credit to JFK for that phrase

comment by Silver (U6112)

posted on 17/2/25

comment by Call Sign: Going for 120 (U3627)
posted 2 hours, 34 minutes ago
At least credit Scotland Coefficient on Twitter

It was that guy that put that together not heed
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Wait, Heed's on twitter...?

posted on 17/2/25

comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 1 hour, 18 minutes ago
comment by Changing my name from My POV - but not decided what to change it to yet (U10636)
posted 2 hours, 21 minutes ago
comment by Striketeam7 - staying humble (U18109)
posted 6 seconds ago
You need to get back to producing some more how’s Hutton doing type players
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Davie? The guy that buys any house?
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Anyone selling their house to a narcissist that models themself on the fictional Big Man needs to question themselves.
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I read that as an arsonist.

posted on 17/2/25

comment by son of quebec (U8127)
posted 1 hour, 19 minutes ago
comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 1 hour, 18 minutes ago
comment by Changing my name from My POV - but not decided what to change it to yet (U10636)
posted 2 hours, 21 minutes ago
comment by Striketeam7 - staying humble (U18109)
posted 6 seconds ago
You need to get back to producing some more how’s Hutton doing type players
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Davie? The guy that buys any house?
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Anyone selling their house to a narcissist that models themself on the fictional Big Man needs to question themselves.
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I read that as an arsonist.
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I read that as a JA606 poster, what you choose to do in your own time is your business

posted on 17/2/25

comment by Call Sign: Going for 120 (U3627)
posted 2 hours, 57 minutes ago
comment by JFK - Super Nintendo Chalmers (U8919)
posted 1 hour, 40 minutes ago
all articles must now be furnished with citations.

rod for our own back here
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Credit to JFK for that phrase
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😄👍

comment by Timmy (U14278)

posted on 18/2/25

The biggest thing we get short changed on is our TV deal.

Countries like sweden have a bigger tv deal despite more than double watch our league.

comment by Timmy (U14278)

posted on 18/2/25

And it all falls down cause we cant broadcast 3pm games.

It really is time we were allowed to show these games.

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