Rangers investor Stuart Gibson launches loaded Celtic dig as he claims Boris Johnson 'liked' British league suggestion

Rangers investor Stuart Gibson knows they have to close the gap on Celtic - as he claims to have met Boris Johnson over combining English and Scottish football.

The Light Blues are nine points off the pace in the Premiership and lost the League Cup final to Celtic last month. It came after boss Michael Beale caused debate when he said the champions were fortunate to be able to spend large sums with regards the money they have in their coffers, having won 10 of the last 11 titles. The club's third largest shareholder insists it was something Rangers would have built up too had they had their shoes on opposite feet.

But Gibson is aware there's a gap to close, saying to This is Ibrox : "We’re second in the league. We’re nine points behind Celtic and that’s just not acceptable. That’s something we need to fix. As our new manager said recently and he got into a bit of trouble: ‘The Celtic manager has been lucky he had such vast sums at his disposal’.

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"That’s good for them but they basically had no one to beat for ten years. They should have accrued that wealth anyway.

"We’d have accrued that same wealth had we been in that position but again we’re behind Celtic so we still have to have more money to be able to go into the transfer market. I think in a bigger way.

“I think we probably need a handful of players to be honest during the summer and they’ll probably cost more than £1million or £2million a time. So we do need to figure out a way to actually increase that pool of money that is available for the Director of Football."

Gibson also claims he held talks with Boris Johnson over uniting British football. It was something he