Liam Thomas

Thu 13 October 2022 22:10, UK

Journalist Barry Anderson claims that Rangers continue to suffer embarrassment in the Champions League due to the financial gap between them and other teams.

Rangers were on the end of a grueling 7-1 defeat at the hands of Liverpool on Wednesday evening, their heaviest-ever defeat at home in Europe.

Anderson confessed that the “financial gap makes it almost impossible” for Rangers and other Scottish club’s to compete in the UEFA Champions League.

“Rangers the latest Scottish club to suffer a European embarrassment. Liverpool had nine shots on target and scored seven at Ibrox,” said Anderson via his Twitter page.

“Financial gap makes it almost impossible for Scottish teams to compete in the Champions League but you can’t capitulate like that at home.”

Dead.

Wednesday evening highlighted the gulf in class in the game dubbed the “Battle of Britain”, this was no battle, more a one-sided slaughter at the hands of a domestically struggling team.

It further highlighted how the financial gap in broadcasting earnings affects any chance Rangers and other Scottish clubs have at progressing in the UEFA Champions League.

The Scottish game repeatedly gets sold on the cheap and absolutely no one in the Scottish Premiership is benefitting from the rise of streaming platforms.

The likes of DAZN, Amazon and even Netflix would provide Scotland with a different kind of revenue, nevertheless, the decision makers seem stuck in their old-fashioned, stale ways.

The ability to buy better players, teams, coaches and even travel comes down to money earned from broadcasting deals and Rangers and Scotland have fallen too far behind.

Expect the club to not compete on European’s grandest stage until this have been resolved and with a new deal with Sky agreed upon for the 2024/2025 campaign, there seems to be little hope of this happening.

In other Rangers news, Chris Sutton and Stan Collymore reacted to the result on Twitter on Wednesday night.