That's why PSG are where they are,and why we are where we are.
Did we no get him from them? Im no sure how much chance he had to break into their first team.
Im no even sure if we had 100 million extra per year just for wages and a 100 million to buy players that we would even come close to the wages and income these financially doped teams have.
That said its 11 v 11
And although we aren't near the elite levels of European budgets we can and do produce relatively good side on the cloth we create ourselves.
Im sure their best players wages for 1 dude is more than the entire wage bill of every player in scotland. in fact im sure their tax due is even more than the entire wage bill of Scotlands football pyramid.
the relative jump in quality from celtic to PSG is minuscule in comparison to the exponential wage bill to get that minuscule upgrade in quality
and that works other way too.
the difference between our 20 grand per week players is not 20 times better than the Scottish players earning less than grand per week
but that 0.5 overall average extra out of 10 regularly costs an insane amount of money since the pool of players in world who are actually regular 0.5 out of 10 more extra rating, is pretty small
the more rare a talent the price gets ridiculous and the wage due is much that when celtic find a classy player and upgrade him we cant afford to hold him anymore even if he would prefer staying unless he really aint into earning mega mega mega bucks.
if someone willing to pay our best players 100K p/w we cant match that wage
hence reason we cant get beyond our current level imo