Celtic is launching their quest for a 10th consecutive Scottish Premiership name this weekend, with Rangers manager Steven Gerrard in intense tension to avoid it.
Nearly five months after the coronavirus closed Scottish football, the 2020/21 season begins on Saturday, even before hostilities end in the English season with the FA Cup final, with the war for supremacy in Glasgow fiercer than ever despite the empty stands. . Training
Celtic and Rangers have each won nine consecutive titles before, but neither Celtic’s European Cup winning team, which won nine titles from 1965 to 1974, nor the range of Rangers stars that reigned from 1988 to 1997, completed a full decade of domination.
The existing Celtic Squadron is well positioned to succeed where those two main sides have failed, as the economic consequences of the pandemic have left little chance for others to catch up.
“Aiming for 10 is historic, it’s memorable and very special,” Said Celtic coach Neil Lennon. “I know you’ve been on the edge of the language of many of our followers and we’re going to do everything we can to achieve it.”
Celtic remained calm in the play market with the exception of Greek goalkeeper Vasilis Barkas’ 4.5 million pounds.
However, unlike recent seasons in which Moussa Dembele, Stuart Armstrong and Kieran Tierney left, they have so far kept key players, despite admiring glances from some of Europe’s heavyweight clubs by Odsonne Edouard and Kristoffer Ajer.
For Rangers boss Gerrard, it’s time for him to achieve as a coach what he hasn’t achieved in his rich liverpool gaming career: winning a league title.
No Rangers manager has stopped winning a trophy in his first two seasons at the helm and had a chance to win a third.
Circumstances gave Gerrard this opportunity. Even traditionally non-easy rangers indicated the hole that the former captain of England had to close when he took office in May 2018.
Gerrard has made Glasgow Blue Team a force in Europe at the Europa League point and has beaten Celtic at home and away in unmarried matches.
But when the COVID-19 pandemic ended Scotland’s 2019/20 season, the Rangers had thirteen themes that their hard-line rivals in the most sensible place on the board.
The disputes that engulfed the Scottish game as the Rangers sought an independent investigation into the vote that saw the scoreboards on the game-consistent topics highlighted the historic start of nine in a row in Scotland.
The Rangers have turned a loan deal from Ianis Hagi, son of Romanian Gheorghe Hagi, into a permanent movement and have expanded their team with the additions of goalkeeper Jon McLaughlin and defenders Calvin Bassey and Leon Balogun in loose moves.
But the club already has investors to cover a loss of 11 million euros in Gerrard’s first season before the coronavirus closed the stadiums.
“We want more,” Gerrard said after completing an impressive undefeated pre-season with notable victories over Lyon and Nice. “I told the club. I’ve been fair and open with what I think I want.
“In terms of our monetary situation, these are questions for others; However, I have made it clear that we want to go up to what we have.
“We have to raise players to become more powerful and then, of course, it will make the team more powerful.”
For Gerrard’s team in more than one court dominance, Rangers would possibly have to take credit for Alfredo Morelos, with Lille interested in the Colombian striker.
Morelos has been the Rangers’ most sensible scorer for more than 3 seasons, but his time in Glasgow has also been plagued by seven red cards.
Gerrard faces a complicated balancing act, but he has to get there or Celtic will be in the history books.
Saturday: Aberdeen vs. Rangers, 3.30 p.m. Dundee United v St Johnstone, 6 p.m. Hibernian vs. Kilmarnock, 6 p. M. St Mirren vs. Livingston, 6 p.m. Sunday vs. Celtic Hamilton, 7:30 p.m.
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