Leicester City > Glasgow Celtic? Really? (Brendan Rodgers content)

[Cavalol]

He's hardly leaving a 'big' club to go to Leicester.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

He's hardly leaving a 'big' club to go to Leicester.

Not one to speak up for the cheeks, but Celtic's average attendance is 57,000 compared to Leicester's 31,000. SKY money has distorted English football grotesquely to the point where minor provincial clubs like Leicester and Bournemouth are streets ahead financially of Scottish clubs.

One day that cash cow is going to stop and there's going to be a lot of tears and snotters.

 

[nickyboy]

Not one to speak up for the cheeks, but Celtic's average attendance is 57,000 compared to Leicester's 31,000. SKY money has distorted English football grotesquely to the point where minor provincial clubs like Leicester and Bournemouth are streets ahead financially of Scottish clubs.

One day that cash cow is going to stop and there's going to be a lot of tears and snotters.

But at least for now perhaps we should be celebrating a great British success? It's amazing how the PL has managed to develop what was a league with far less money in it than Italy or Spain

It's not really Sky money. Sky is the conduit through which Asian PL supporter money flows into the UK

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

But at least for now perhaps we should be celebrating a great British success? It's amazing how the PL has managed to develop what was a league with far less money in it than Italy or Spain

It's not really Sky money. Sky is the conduit through which Asian PL supporter money flows into the UK

It's very much an English success story though - not decrying that - but to Scottish football's expense. Mediocre players are on more money in the English lower leagues than all but the top 3 or 4 clubs in Scotland can afford. For instance we had a highly rated Chelsea Youth player with us for a few months, Ruben Sammut. Captain of their under 23 side and on £16000 a week. He was utter garbage, rotten.

Here's the report on him -

Style of play

Favouring a deep-lying midfield role generally, he is a competent distributor of the ball in the centre of the pitch.

Despite sporadic appearances this season for Falkirk, where he averaged around 55 minutes of playing time per game, he still displayed a decent pass completion rate of 79.6%.

He also enjoys a decent success rate in terms of passes into the final third, with 61.9% of those passes into the final third finding their intended target.

Good at reading the game and breaking down opposition attacks, he averages around 3.8 interceptions per 90 minutes.

Although he very rarely contributes in attacks, he is a competent dribbler if ever required to get himself out of any tight situations in the middle of the pitch. Although averaging just 0.71 dribbles per 90 minutes, his success rate in those dribbles is 80.8%.


Areas to improve

Although traditionally deployed a lot deeper on the pitch, Sammut offers very little in terms of creative or attacking threat.

He failed to register a single shot on target for Falkirk this season and his Expected Goal (xG) average was just 0.01, suggesting he offered virtually nothing in the final third.

He also failed to register any assists in Scotland this season, posting an xA average again of just 0.01. This would suggest he still needs to develop the creative aspect of his game, or he will be forced to rely on other creative players around him to produce and finish goalscoring opportunities

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/spo.../who-ruben-sammut-sunderland-chelsea-15891613

He's going to Sunderland apparently.


How the hell can Scottish clubs compete when rubbish like Sammut is on £16k a week?

 

[Smokin Joe]

It's very much an English success story though - not decrying that - but to Scottish football's expense.

The English game has no obligation to that in Scotland, where they hate us anyway.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

The English game has no obligation to that in Scotland, where they hate us anyway.

That's very true and no problem with it - but it's not a "British" success story is it?

I have to say though that it's a marketing fantasy - superb from a money point of view but outside of maybe the top 6, the standard isn't particularly good.