Celtic and Rangers would finish in Premier League top six if they quit Scotland, claims Neil Warnock
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NEIL WARNOCK believes Celtic and Rangers would finish in the Premier League top six.
The debate has long raged on whether the Old Firm would succeed if they quit Scotland and played in the English top flight.
Former Cardiff boss Warnock told : "If you put Celtic and Rangers down in England, you're talking about the top six.
"Those two clubs, if they got the money that the English clubs have coming in, they would spend it.
"They'd spend it on good players and they would then compete."
Celtic have won nine consecutive league titles with Rangers finishing second.
Tottenham came sixth in the Premier League with Wolves and Arsenal behind them, but Warnock backed the Scots to compete for a top four finish.
He said: "I look at and Rangers - I don't think about Man City or Liverpool, I think they're way ahead - but I think the rest below that, Man United, Chelsea, I think Rangers and Celtic would more than cope with that.
"The money that the Premier League [clubs] get, it wouldn't take long (for Celtic and Rangers to compete) - within 18 months, two years."
If you put Celtic and Rangers down in England, you're talking about the top six.
Neil Warnock
In 2009 Premier League clubs voted against welcoming Celtic and Rangers into the division.
Rangers boss Steven Gerrard has recently been linked with the Bournemouth job following Eddie Howe's departure after their relegation.
Ex-Tottenham after insisting managing the Cherries in the Championship is a greater challenge than Rangers.
O'Hara told talkSPORT: “I wouldn’t want to disrespect the Rangers people because they are a huge football club but it is a bigger job to potentially be the Bournemouth manager.
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“Rangers are a huge, huge football club but for me there are only two teams in Scotland.
"Bournemouth is the potential, they have just dropped out of the Premier League and to get them back into the Premier League.
"They are still a high profile football team. I would take the Bournemouth job. It’s the bigger job.”