Celtic blamed for coefficient nightmare as Rangers wave the Scottish flag, but £70 million Champions League windfall hangs in the balance.

Celtic blamed for coefficient nightmare as Rangers wave the Scottish flag, but £70 million Champions League windfall hangs in the balance.

Tam McManus believes Scottish football supporters would have preferred to see Rangers knock out Benfica in the Europa League, blaming Celtic for our coefficient disaster.

The Czech Republic is now chasing Scotland for the final slot in the top ten, which secures a Champions League spot for the top tier winners through 2025/26. With that automatic position comes the riches of the redesigned competition, yet all Scottish clubs have been kicked out of Europe, preventing our teams from accumulating points.

Viktoria Plzen is still in the Conference League, even if they play Fiorentina in the following round, but any favorable outcome for the team will see the Czechs take over Scotland’s status among the ten best performing nations in the UEFA rankings.

For ex-Hibs player McManus, Gers are the only team that has been respectably waving the flag in Europe, with Brendan Rodgers’ Celts failing to add much to the coefficient points at all.

“It’s huge,” he told PLZ Soccer. “Plzen signed Fiorentina, which we think is an excellent move. I believe they are the second favourites to win the competition, hence Fiorentina should beat them both at home and away, while Plzen will receive no coefficient points.

‘Unfortunately, the Rangers have been the only team to rack up points in recent seasons. The remaining clubs, including Celtic, have done very little. So, I believe there would have been many individuals wishing Rangers to obtain through that tie from a Scottish point of view, but unfortunately they didn’t. So hopefully Fiorentina turn Plzen over and we can just cling on to that 10th spot.”

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