Michael Beale has admitted he has his own personal opinion on league restructuring but that Rangers moving down south might not be the answer.
It was floated, and hotly debated again, this week from former Scotland boss Craig Levein that Glasgow's big two moving to the bumper English Premier League would be for the betterment of Scottish football in the future. Beale now has experienced of both sides of the argument as the Rangers coach returned to become full-on boss last year.
The powerhouses of Celtic and Rangers are pulling away from the rest of the pack in the views of many, but Beale proposed another plan and said that people like Levein coming together to discuss could not possibly be a bad idea.
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He said: “What’s Craig planning on doing with us?”
He added: “Everyone has an opinion on whether Celtic and Rangers should be in the league or out of it. I have a personal opinion on the split. Unless everyone plays everyone else the same amount of times, it’s not a fair league.
“Why not just add two more teams and then we can have a six and an eight split? The more complicated you make the competition, the less credibility it has as well. That’s not me talking down the league.
“I look around different leagues in Europe and the Belgian league seems very complex. Someone needs to sit you down and explain how that works. You can be sixth in the league and finish top. In our league we have a split and you should be playing all five teams at home. But obviously it has to be three and two.
“And if you were to drop a position to miss out on Europe or get relegated and you haven’t played the exact same fixtures as the team that comes off best. That doesn’t seem right. That’s just my personal opinion, but I’m just a manager in the league.
“I don’t want to be the person that decides all that. I just want to look after Rangers. But if we are going to talk about the league then we need to have a voting system that allows everyone to vote. We have an 11-1 voting system and when we were talking about doing away with artificial surfaces or restructuring the league…We had a big moment and we didn’t use it. We had a really big window of opportunity.
“What I would say is that, if people like Craig – who has been the national team coach, a player and manager in this league for many years – feels something can’t we get more people like Craig in a room and give us a plan moving forward?”
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