‘Impossible’ – Ally McCoist slams UEFA in new Rangers rant live on talkSPORT

After claiming that only a small number of teams have the resources to win the Champions League, Ally McCoist became enraged

with UEFA and suggested teams like Celtic and Rangers could no longer play in the competition.

The Rangers icon brought up the teams who have advanced to the finals, including Porto, Marseille, and Red Star Belgrade,

in response to a question on whether the Champions League has grown boring because the same teams compete to win it every year.

McCoist claimed that is now impossible, with the financial gap too wide as shown by Rangers and Celtic’s struggles in the group stage,

and that gap is only likely to get wider.

McCoist angrily declared, “Rangers and Celtic already find it, if not impossible, unbelievably difficult to compete in the group stages,”

in a talkSPORT interview [08:14]. The great majority of that has to do with finances.

“It seems to me that the issue is that it will continue until only three or four clubs remain capable of winning it,

and those three or four clubs are the wealthiest clubs in Europe.”

Ally McCoist claims Rangers cannot compete in the Champions League

McCoist is right, it has become impossible for clubs like the Old Firm sides to compete in UEFA competitions due to the finances

involved for the likes of Manchester City, Real Madrid, PSG and Bayern Munich.

In football, the expression “The rich get richer” is frequently used, but it is most often used in reference to the Champions League.

For teams like Rangers and Celtic, the money from UEFA events is vital, but they never advance far enough to fully benefit from those rewards.

On the other hand, Manchester City anticipates making it all the way to the championship each year, and their earnings increase as they go.

The funds are reinvested in the team, and the cycle is restarted.

With the money involved in the biggest European clubs, that gap continues to grow between those at the top and the hopeful clubs at the

bottom of that chain, with no respite from that likely to emerge despite reforms to the Champions League format.