Kilmarnock return to Scottish Premiership duties this weekend as they face last season’s runners-up Rangers.
It’s very much felt like a stop-start campaign for Killie so far with international breaks and an early exit from the Premier Sports Cup breaking up any sort of momentum they try and build.
Derek McInnes sees his side sit 9th after a dramatic victory over Dundee last time out handed the Ayrshire outfit their first league triumph of the season.
And they’ll want to continue the renewed optimism around the club when Philippe Clement’s Gers visit Rugby Park on Sunday.
A lot is said about Rangers being unable to compete at the top table of European football, namely the Champions League, due to the immense gap in financial power between them and the continent’s heavyweights.
That talk has surrounded their arch-rivals Celtic of late after they were humbled by German giants Borussia Dortmund a couple of weeks ago.
But what about the fiscal chasm that exists between the Old Firm and the rest of their Premiership opponents? There isn’t too much talk about that, is there?
Well, Not The Old Firm have decided to highlight just how huge the difference in total squad costs is between Kilmarnock and Rangers ahead of their meeting on Sunday.
Kilmarnock 2023/24 squad cost
Goalkeepers
- Kieran O’Hara (free)
- Robby McCrorie (undisclosed)
Defenders
- Jack Burroughs (loan)
- Corrie Ndaba (undisclosed)
- Joe Wright (free)
- Lewis Mayo (undisclosed)
- Robbie Deas (free)
- Stuart Findlay (loan)
- Oliver Bainbridge (loan)
Midfielders
- Rory McKenzie (academy)
- Brad Lyons (free)
- David Watson (academy)
- Kyle Magennis (free)
- Liam Donnelly (free)
- Liam Polworth (free)
- Matty Kennedy (free)
- Danny Armstrong (free)
- Gary Mackay-Steven (free)
- Fraser Murray (free)
Strikers
- Kyle Vassell (free)
- Innes Cameron (academy)
- Bruce Anderson (free)
- Marley Watkins (free)
- Bobby Wales (academy)
Total Squad Cost: £500k approx.
Rangers 2023/24 squad cost
Goalkeepers
- Jack Butland (free)
- Liam Kelly (free)
Defenders
- James Tavernier (£220k)
- Ridvan Yilmaz (£5m)
- Robin Propper (£1.5m)
- John Souttar (free)
- Clinton Nsiala (free)
- Dujon Sterling (free)
- Jefte (£680k)
- Neraysho Kasanwirjo (loan)
- Leon Balogun (free)
- Leon King (academy)
- Adam Devine (academy)
- Robbie Fraser (academy)
Midfielders
- Connor Barron (undisclosed)
- Mohamed Diomande (£4.3m)
- Nedim Bajrami (£3.4m)
- Kieran Dowell (free)
- Tom Lawrence (free)
- Ianis Hagi (£3m)
- Nicolas Raskin (£1.75m)
- Cole McKinnon (academy)
- Bailey Rice (academy)
- Alex Lowry (academy)
- Paul Nsio (academy)
Forwards
- Oscar Cortes (loan)
- Rabbi Matondo (£2.5m)
- Vaclav Cerny (loan)
- Ross McCausland (academy)
- Zak Lovelace (£100k)
- Cyriel Dessers (£4.5m)
- Hamza Igamane (£1.7m)
- Danilo (£6m)
- Archie Stevens (academy)
Total Squad Cost: £34.65m
Total Difference = £34.15m approx.