Aberdeen manager Jim Goodwin believes Celtic and Rangers feeling the financial gulf in the Champions League is a reminder of how hard it is for anyone to compete domestically with the Old Firm.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst admitted after Rangers’ 4-0 defeat to Ajax that they would need “hundreds of millions” to compete with the top teams in Europe.
Celtic suffered a 3-0 defeat to Champions League winners Real Madrid after passing up early chances in their group opener in Glasgow on Tuesday night.
Goodwin believes they are feeling what the rest of Scotland’s top-flight managers contend with constantly.
“I always find it funny when managers from either side of the Old Firm talk about financial gulfs.
“I think here at Aberdeen I have got good resources available to me. Of course, they are not the same level of what Rangers and Celtic have got available but we make do with what we have got.
“We have got a fantastic, state-of-the-art training facility and we have got great plans for the stadium in the coming years.
“We have a great air of positivity in the city because of how the team are doing.
“We are in the quarter-finals of the League Cup and where we are sitting in the league table, albeit it’s very early days, third, is where we want to be come the end of the season as a minimum requirement.”
