Graeme Souness DENIES That Rangers Got 'BATTERED' By Celtic In The Old Firm DESPITE Losing 3-0! 😤👀

can I read some stats to you from yesterday's game forget result you don't know the result Celtic had 53% possession Rangers had 47 at parkhead that's not bad for no 18 team Celtic had 14 shots Rangers had 13 shots Celtic had four On Target Rangers had four On Target Celtic had five off Target we had five off Target that sound like a game that's been one-sided those stats are not suggesting that they are turning up and mulling Rangers at parkhead where you're taking it I'm just listening to gr real out stats these are facts but you would never use stats ini she want to advance an argument gram maybe maybe the sensible thinking was Celtic will overcome Rangers at Celtic park again as they have been doing on a regular basis when the two met at Celtic yesterday and they did just that they powered pass Rangers by three goals to nil and now go Five Points clear of their Glasgow Rivals post match uh Philip Clore and brandan Rogers had different emotions as you might expect don't forget what what happened last week so it was the best result in uh in around four years for the club so uh it's not that black and white it's gray okay it's maybe more dark gray today and that's normal for me also I don't want to lose with three- Z nobody wants to lose that way but we need to take the right conclusions out of that our pressing has been really really good and for a lot of the game it was today you seen that hunger and that ability to double up around players so um so I was really really pleased with that but there's other aspects that we will analyze when we we look back on the game where we where we can improve but I think you see the level that the players are at in the mentality that they're they're at we're in a really good place but it's it's so early in the season and there's a lot more growth to come five old firm matches for Philipe clemont in all competition G four losses and one draw so at the moment it's all Celtic and it doesn't like look like changing anytime soon not they have the better players they have the better Strikers and I think that's that's um if you win if you're going to win football matches you you have to put the ball in the back of the net and right now and I said this last year that they have better Strikers than what we have but it's more than that isn't it is it can I read some stats to you from yesterday's game so forget result you don't know the result you don't know the result so Celtic had 53% possession Rangers had 47 at parkhead that's not bad for an8 team Celtic had 14 shots Rangers had 13 shots Celtic had four On Target Rangers had four On Target Celtic had five off Target we had five off Target does that sound like a game that's been one-sided to you there's no doubt about it there's a gap that gap for me looking at it is Celtic have better Strikers that those stats are not suggesting that they are absolutely turning up and mulling Rangers at parkhead but they are there is a gap they have opened a gap in did you did you watch The Man United versus Liverpool game where the stats were man united had eight shots and and Liverpool had 11 they both had three shots on Target and man united had 53% possession yet you you watch those stats and those stats suit your argument we no we finished last year second behind Celtic the end of the season they spent 28 million we spent 14 million and although they brought a lot of money in so we're chasing them but we're spending half the amount of money in in the summer months so there is a gap we Rangers are not in a healthy financial situation right now Celtic are in a far better financial situation what allows them to go out and cherry pick players like they got good money for that O'Reilly take a chance on someone where Rangers are buying Under Pressure that everyone to buy has to come in and do a job right now and that that's a difficult situation to be in course you're taking it I I just I'm just listening to gr real out stats well they're not my stats these These are these are facts but you would never use stat unless you want to advance an argument so I've just given you the stats of man united and and the actual outcome of the game was that we've just discussed the fact that Liverpool were in a different zip code to Manchester United and I would suggest at the same conclusion despite you wanting to use the stats to advance an argument in the situation the game yesterday and I didn't yeah Rangers didn't play well yesterday they didn't when they did carry a threat they didn't have the people to finish it off there is a there is a gap that exists but how many players would would make that Gap less how many would make that change the other way in Rangers favor it's not a lot three or four players and 50 million regularly rages with you and it's you get all prickly about it and then you start flinging around um superlatives about people not being football people when we've had this debate about the gap between the two clubs and we've had this Fier debate you said and you've said absolutely not absolutely not ABS AC there a Gap I said that last year they better Strikers vast Gap well in your opinion well in the results opinion if results business and you don't ever beat this side there's a vast Gap isn't there yeah there is there is an enormous listen oh there is now no it's not an enormous Gap there's a gap okay but in your opinion it's not it's in Europe opinion it's an enormous one I don't and that's that's trying to watch that game yesterday objectively I didn't see a one a one-sided affair they were clinical in their finishes they finished their goals well I'm you know there's a couple of goals the third goal is a deflection that our goalkeeper couldn't get to the second one was at first one was avoidable the second one's avoidable um I think the big goalkeeper got his his positional sense wrong that would normally be a food and drink safe for him but there's no doubt about it Celtic deserved to win yesterday three goals the Finish Liverpool fans will tell you this Monday morning there's only one St in town we beat United 3-0 there's only one St in town from Celtic Park Celtic won 3-0 yeah I'm accepting that and they deserve to that's it only an all important stat deserve to I started by saying goals are the most important thing in football matches they changed the games so other stats don't really matter do they no goals are the ones that matter so why did you reel off the stats you reeled off I'm not watching the game yesterday and sitting there feeling we're getting absolutely tonked here I didn't I didn't feel that maybe that's because I'm a a Balloono but I didn't see Celtic wave after wave of attack our goal keep having to make lots and lots of saves I didn't see that yesterday but before you told us there's not much between the too well what is are you telling us there is a gap between Cel R there not that big a gap there is a gap between now you're saying there is a gap finish there is a gap I I accepted that last year when we had this conversation I don't see it when an enormous Gap I've been I've been in Glasgow I've worked here for five years I know how it works you lose an old firm game everything is wrong everything is wrong and I would plead with the aror supporters right now that turned up I Brooks and were critical of their team and the manager to take a deep breath and calm down cuz that only benefits one side and that only benefits Celtic get behind your manager and get behind your football club but how how do they do that Rangers have forgotten how to win it Celtic when you see a big gap five successive home League wins when you see a big gap you're talking three players maybe four players but Rangers don't have the finances to go out and a manager is operating with one hand tied behind his back he can't go out and buy the kind of players that can make that jump so because of that you can only see the Gap widening I have a crystal ball and that's a question it's not a statement can you only see the Gap widening if you go back to when Celtic did nine in a row everyone everyone maybe the media wasn't so so intrusive and fierce then maybe they would been they wouldn't have been saying it can never be Rangers are finished they can never challenge again then when Rangers did nine in a row with the Celtics suppos been St oh we can never challenge again it's football you you're from Gaza you know how it works there um nothing is forever that will turn it's just hopefully if you're a ranger supporter like I am it's sooner rather than later it's football do you can see that Rangers financial situation though is going to make life Prett darn difficult very difficult but get to the level where Celtic have got themselves very difficult but not impossible who knows what's around the corner for Rangers do you think this has become like almost the most predictable fixure you could imag imine Simon did you think before the game yesterday you're looking at a 3-0 and you're looking you're looking at 34 nothing going to be there's nothing in Rangers form this season from drawing Neil nil with Dundee at the beginning of the season to losing to Dynamo KV who are no Powerhouse in European football and don't have a particularly bigger turnover rers Heart s yeah um um so you look at Rangers and you go you've drawn with hearts at the beginning of the Season you've got knocked out of the Europa League um by um or sorry after the Champions League qualification by D MF who are don't have a bigger turnover than Rangers they have the same sort of level of turnover and you think to yourself well if you can't land a glove domestically on on Celtic because we have this debate frequently about whether Rangers and Celtic can be considered to be close to one another if you never beat your opposition never beat them then you have to say that the Gap is significant now the argument then is is what do you do to try and Achieve things you try and get into the Champions League so you you draw a team like d Kio that you get a result with away from home you bring them back to IA or to hamon in this instance and you get knocked out in the Champions League so any opportunities that you have to be able to bridge the gap economically are taken away by performances on the field and that has to come down to the group of players and the manager that you've got to be able to overcome some of these things because I don't think Celtic are wonderful I don't think they're great I don't think this is the greatest Celtics side we've ever seen um and I think that this just shows you where Rangers are I mean clemont to me this time well he wasn't here this time last year I think everybody's right about Michael bill I don't know why they would have employed Michael bill I don't know what they're thinking that was because Michael Bill didn't bring any intellectual Capital into Rangers the scale of the job was far too big for him and scale of the sundland job was far too big for him so Christ on a bike so would Rangers be yet they let themselves sit there for a year and waste time that's down to the ownership that's down to the recruitment policies they've got there clemont to me looks like he's got the chops but you got to give the fell some tools and this goes back Beyond Michael Beal as well you know Steven Jared won one League Steven Jared was there three years but he did win a league he was there three years years you can win nine trophies in three years for a Rangers and a Celtic manager winning one trophy in nine years normally doesn't keep you in a job but is that coming from a fair position though given the fact that the erosion of Rangers irrespective whether it was their fault or not so I'm saying it goes back Beyond Michael be but there is a gap but it's not that hang on if you win a league G surely you should kick on so what I'm saying is you climbed that mountain you've crossed the Rubicon you've won the league after all this time right so now you're in build again you've reestablished yourself I don't know the I don't know the numbers but my understanding is that Michael be had money to spend and that money wasn't spent wisely and the most important thing you hear me say every week when I'm with you most important thing at football club is getting your recruitment right they didn't whatever money they had they appeared to have blown it