Comparing every Scottish Premiership squad cost as Celtic AND Rangers argument blown away – money table revealed

It's a funny old footballing ecosystem we have in Scotland.

While Celtic and Rangers rue the cash some of their European rivals can spend in comparison to their own budgets, the rest of the Premiership are left looking on and thinking 'what about us?' Because while Lyon spent more on one player than Rangers did on their entire squad, and Borussia Dortmund's goalkeeper cost more than Celtic's record signing, it's the same challenge every other team in the country faces when they travel to Ibrox or Parkhead. Just ask St Johnstone, who lost 6-0 at home to the champions, before they travelled to Dortmund three days later and shipped seven.

Title-chasing Aberdeen are the biggest spenders outside of Glasgow's big two but even their relatively expensively-assembled squad is pocket change compared to the teams sandwiching them top of the table. Record Sport take a look and estimate how much each of the 12 Premiership teams spent assembling their current squads.

To the delight of the fans, Celtic loosened the purse strings this summer and reinvested the chunky end of Matt O'Riley's club-record fee back into the squad. In came Arne Engels (£11m) and Auston Trusty (£6m) among others, and touching £70m, this is one of the most expensively put-together Celtic teams in recent years. So far it's translated domestically, with their perfect record still intact, but not so much in Europe, where they were thrashed 7-1 by Dortmund. Finding a way to close that chasm, competitively at least, is one of the defining challenges facing Brendan Rodgers.

As Philippe Clement made abundantly clear, Rangers didn't have much cash to splash in the summer. Yet they still brought in Nedim Bajrami on deadline day - who cost more than the entire squads