Kenny Dalglish makes bold claims about Celtic and Rangers

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Rangers and Celtic could be assets in the Premier League, according to Kenny Dalglish.

Kenny Dalglish has told The Mirror that he thinks Celtic and Rangers would be quality additions to the Premier League – but won’t get voted into the league by scared rivals.

Since Rangers’ liquidation in 2012, Celtic have completely dominated Scottish football, with six league titles in a row to their name.

Rangers may have returned to the top flight, but Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers has yet to lose a single game to the Gers, and hasn’t even lost a game to Scottish opponents yet, having guided Celtic to an unbeaten treble last season.

Celtic beat Rangers 2-0 in September to continue to their supremacy, despite Rangers backing manager Pedro Caixinha with £8million worth of new signings over the summer transfer window.

Celtic Manager Brendan Rodgers and Rangers manager Pedro Caixinha

Whilst Rangers will hope to eventually challenge Celtic once again at the top of Scottish football, one of the longest-running debates has been over the possibility of both teams joining the English football pyramid.

Many believe that Celtic and Rangers should be in the Premier League despite being in Scotland; after all, we have seen both Cardiff City and Swansea City in the top flight in recent years, with some feeling that the Old Firm should join too.

It ultimately looks unlikely any time soon, but former Celtic hero and manager Kenny Dalglish has told The Mirror that he thinks that both teams would enhance the quality of the Premier League – despite the portrayal of Celtic being overrated due to beating so many below-par teams, and the subsequent gap to Rangers.

Kenny Dalglish

Dalglish also claims that Celtic and Rangers will never be voted into the Premier League, because teams are somewhat scared of facing teams who will cause them problems, as Celtic and Rangers could push teams closer to relegation.

“At the end of the day, they would enhance the quality of the Premier League,” Dalglish said. “But then again that doesn’t mean that they will actually get in because I don’t see how any of the clubs in England would vote for them to come in. You wouldn’t vote them in because it’s two teams that are going to cause you problems.”

“When you’re worried about avoiding relegation in that particular league or whether you’re worried about promotion, those two teams would add strength to that argument so if you’re in opposition to them you wouldn’t want them. But then like I said at the beginning, they would definitely enhance the Premier League but I don’t know if we’ll get there,” he added.