Aberdeen’s Vice-Chairman Dave Cormack has fired warning shots to Rangers and Celtic after saying he wants the Dons “to be regularly competing for trophies”.
The Reds chief acknowledges that Aberdeen will struggle to compete with the Old Firm teams financially, but believes the infrastructure and investment is there in the north to mount a challenge.
Whilst you can’t knock the ambition of the Aberdeen honcho, this season has shown that both Rangers and Celtic are stretching away from the Pittodrie club.
“There is a bit of an arms race between Celtic and Rangers with Rangers coming back up and spending money,” said Dave Cormack [Scottish Sun].
“Celtic have upped the ante as well and those are tough things to compete with – and so are we.
“For us to compete on the pitch our goal has to be to put as much as we can, while being sensible, into the football budget.
“We want to get into that top 100 in Europe and to be regularly competing for trophies.
“Football has changed but we have an appetite here at Aberdeen for European football and it doesn’t need to be Barcelona, Real Madrid or Bayern Munich to turn up these days.
“We have made some progress and now we are about 170. But if we can get to the group stage on a regular basis then we will absolutely be in that top 100.”
Being brutally honest, Rangers have proven already that they are realistically the only side who can break Celtic’s recent dominance of the Scottish domestic game.
Rangers now sit one game away from their first major silverware in eight years, level with Celtic on the top of the league, and with a chance of reaching the knockout stages of the Europa League.
Do Aberdeen really have the facilities to do achieve this in the coming seasons?
