Darren Bent makes ludicrous claim about Celtic and Rangers playing in England

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The age-old debate of Celtic and Rangers competing in the Premier League from pundits down south is generally argued lazily.

Celtic’s standing in world football simply cannot be argued against as the Bhoys have a fanbase that spans the globe.

However, when it comes to discussing Celtic competing in the Premier League, the debate is usually lazy, factually incorrect and just downright disrespectful.

But when we come to Darren Bent talking about Celtic and Rangers playing in England, the former Spurs striker’s comments are absolutely baffling.

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Darren Bent’s baffling comments about Celtic and Rangers in the Championship & Premier League

Now, Celtic fans will have heard a lot of nonsense spoken about both Glasgow clubs competing in England but Bent’s are simply full of contradictions.

Bent told talkSPORT [8m 27s], “Rangers and Celtic if they were in the Championship, they are, I think, the two biggest clubs. That’s fact, right?

“They’re the two biggest clubs in the Championship currently right now. But neither would win it, the Championship.

“I don’t think that they wouldn’t come down all of a sudden they’d win the Championship. That’s not happening at all.

“And there are some Premier League clubs Rangers and Celtic are bigger than. That’s just factual.

“We talk about Rangers more so for where they are, I don’t think there’s hardly any managers that are leaving straight away right now to go.”

You can watch Bent’s full debate with Andy Goldstein below:

Mikael Lustig clamps Darren Bent’s Celtic comments

Pundits down south continually spout nonsense whenever they want to talk disparagingly about Celtic competing in the Premier League.

With Premier League money, Celtic would more than just compete. However, Celtic hero Mikael Lustig revealed recently why he knocked back England’s top-tier to come to Glasgow and he has just clamped Bent’s later argument that players or managers would choose England over Scotland.

Lustig said, “I had the chance to go to West Ham and Fulham when I was at Rosenborg.

“But there were two teams that were in the Championship one year, then the Premier League one year and fought at the bottom. At that time I really couldn’t defend. I couldn’t go there and just defend, then I would be completely depressed.

“When I chose, it was really that I needed to go to a team that fought at the top and won a lot of games, because that was the offensive game I had.

“It was really only in the last few years that I started to focus on money. When you felt that ‘now it’s good to collect the last few marbles.’

“Before, I didn’t really care about salary. But it was more that I was going to a club that played offensive football.”

This debate about Celtic in England and the Premier League is tired and nonsensical because every fan knows that with the financial backing that teams down south get, the Bhoys would win England’s top division.

But as it stands now, that will never happen and it’s probably just as well because the Premier League, as it stands right now, is a soulless division designed, for tourists, focused on money and lost its passion for winning a long time ago.