"Both Rangers and Celtic have a rich history of robbing the lower SPL teams for thier gems" Not really LOL ... Most player who go to either club from the SPL are not Premership quality & most have a choice of either Championship footie or trying win the SPL..
For Islam ferez " He wil never get into the First Team to compete for honours" most likely as Chelsea do is loan them to Championship of lower sides and then unless they set the place alight there let go on free's" the reason why Chelsea do this is because of the European Home Grown Rule.. 3 years before there 21.. & if he developes like he is suspected they have a one of there HG players for Champions Leauge..
He should have stayed at Celtic and potentially play first team football alot sooner than at Chelsea.. I-E James Forrest for Celtic who is potentially a strong premier leauge signing and scotland player at 19..
For ferez at 17 could have been in the Celtic First Team and you cant say playing Premier leauge U-18 or Reserve football is better!!
Celtic don't really buy other SPL players. To be fair Celtic are more likely to sign premiership quality players than Championship players. Like Lustig who's just joined turned down Fulham to sign for Celtic and Wanyama turned down Villa to join in the summer. If Celtic do sign Championship players it's usually the best ones like Joe Ledley or Kris Commons. I don't get the myth that Celtic are on a par wth Championship clubs. Rangers squad is definitely closer to Championship standard but then they've won the league the last few seasons, despite being humped in most Old Firm games since Lennon took over.
The best way to decribe Rangers is that they would the are similar to Cardiff City... They would probaly be there or there abouts in the championship but never step it up enough to be in the Premership clubs!! For me They have only won the SPL the last few years because they have had more of a squad mentality but Lennon is slowly but surely bringing the squad together & the talent at that club is immense twice the idividual talent of Rangers.. If Celtic were in England all day Europa Leauge Qualifers through the leauge and with the support at Celtic Park you couldnt see any team wanting to go there..
About the players going to Celtic or Rangers i ment from Scotland - With the likes of Stokes to Celtic ; Wallace to Rangers ; where they could have had a choice of going to the championship aswell.. not stating the signing power of Celtic or Rangers just in terms of the comment made saying " Celtic and Rangers rob all scotish gems "
About Celtic signings there scouting network is immense Kayal and Ki & Izaguirre were unreal finds..
He has been playing brilliantly for our youth team, what a buy.
What about when he turns 18 - 19.. Do you loan him out to Yeovil Town and watch him get humped 4 and 5 nill from teams like
Seffield United (Nothing against sheffield United lol) Just like you are doing with Conor Clifford.. Look what he done for the youth team aswell... Was defiantly a good buy for chelsea tho if he developes the way he should.. but u can see both sides of the argument..