[Football] Celtic in the EPL, how would they do with their current team?

[BrianSwan]

Celtic and Rangers a bit underrated here. Rangers were a penalty shootout away from winning the Europa league last season.
I actually watch a lot of Celtic games and they play a good style of football and like Brighton have found a few good Japanese players under the radar.
Its the rest of the league which is not competitive would hold them back with the current 10/12 clubs in the EPL until the TV money would kick in.

Rangers had one good European season last year and SPL fans will talk about it for years now, as an example how it is underrated.

What you wont hear now is how Rangers went 6 games 6 losses 2 goals for, 22 against - 20 GD this Champions league season. Celtic were barely better going 0 wins 2 draws 4 losses, 4 goals for, 15 against - 11 GD.

Celtic have been knocked out of the Champions League in qualifying by AEK Athens, Cluj, Ferencvaros and Midtjylland in successive seasons before this and Rangers were knocked out of the Champions League in qualifying last year by Malmo.

 

[Swansman]

Rangers had one European term last year and SPL fans will talk about it for years now, as an example how it is underrated.

What you wont hear now is how Rangers went 6 games 6 losses 2 goals for, 22 against - 20 GD this Champions league season. Celtic were barely better going 0 wins 2 draws 4 losses, 4 goals for, 15 against - 11 GD.

Celtic have been knocked out of the Champions League in qualifying by AEK Athens, Cluj, Ferencvaros and Midtjylland in successive seasons before this and Rangers were knocked out of the Champions League in qualifying last year by Malmo.

Despite being 2-0 up and Malmö being a man down..

 

[beorhthelm]

from the beeb, opinion of someone with skin in the game:

Japan head coach Hajime Moriyasu has cited the standard of the Scottish Premiership as a factor in his decision to again omit Celtic’s Reo Hatate and Kyogo Furuhashi from his squad.

 

[dangull]

Rangers had one good European season last year and SPL fans will talk about it for years now, as an example how it is underrated.

What you wont hear now is how Rangers went 6 games 6 losses 2 goals for, 22 against - 20 GD this Champions league season. Celtic were barely better going 0 wins 2 draws 4 losses, 4 goals for, 15 against - 11 GD.

Celtic have been knocked out of the Champions League in qualifying by AEK Athens, Cluj, Ferencvaros and Midtjylland in successive seasons before this and Rangers were knocked out of the Champions League in qualifying last year by Malmo.

It wasn't a one off though, Rangers got to the final in 2009 and Celtic in 2003, beating Blackburn and Liverpool along the way.
Ok, starting to go back a few years.
Virgil Van Dyke and Henrick Larsson wouldn't make it down south.

 

[SeagullinExile]

Not sure what this EPL is

 

[ShivasIrons]

20th place for sure

 

[Brighton Lines]

Dont know what you have to smoke to think Celtic would stay up. They have about five players who'd be acceptable in the PL and then a bunch who might be great in Scotland but wouldn't be competitive in the Premier League.

10-15 years ago they had a team that would end up in the middle of PL, about 20 years they would probably be somewhere around top 4. Today: relegation. Such is the development of the English and Scottish clubs. Celtic hade the choice to take CL money, turn into eternal success and development for them and for Scottish football, but turned all those resources into shit. Currently they're better than in a while but would have problems against every PL side.

Yes, but once in the league they then have access to Premier League finances. Celtic are a massive club made irrelevant in Europe by the lack of access to the riches of the other clubs from the top leagues.

 

[Swansman]

Yes, but once in the league they then have access to Premier League finances. Celtic are a massive club made irrelevant in Europe by the lack of access to the riches of the other clubs from the top leagues.

They would probably become a strong team at some point if bought by someone who knows what they're doing. But the question is about the current team.

 

[GT49er]

Rangers had one good European season last year and SPL fans will talk about it for years now, as an example how it is underrated.

What you wont hear now is how Rangers went 6 games 6 losses 2 goals for, 22 against - 20 GD this Champions league season. Celtic were barely better going 0 wins 2 draws 4 losses, 4 goals for, 15 against - 11 GD.

Celtic have been knocked out of the Champions League in qualifying by AEK Athens, Cluj, Ferencvaros and Midtjylland in successive seasons before this and Rangers were knocked out of the Champions League in qualifying last year by Malmo.

What they (Scottish fans) don't seem to realise is how different the levels are - The Rangers team that won the SPL a couple of years ago for example - they seem to have completely missed the fact that Rangers were greatly helped by a solid CD pairing of two lads who weren't quite good enough for Brighton back when Brighton weren't as good as they are now!
............. or that the SPL is now a place where we send our U21s to get some experience - four of them in recent years - that is the difference in levels!