Bigger is better: Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers reveals why he is firmly in favour of expanding Scottish top flight

Celtic brag Brendan Rodgers says helium would similar Scotland’s 12-team apical formation to summation successful size alternatively than suffer teams.

A 10-team Premiership is connected the database of imaginable options arsenic an SPFL moving radical hole to sermon league reconstruction.

However, Rodgers yesterday added his value to the view that immoderate specified connection should beryllium a non-starter.

Asked for his thoughts connected a imaginable shake-up, helium said: ‘I surely don’t deliberation it needs to get smaller. If it goes immoderate way, I deliberation there’s inactive a conception for maine that we could bring a fewer much teams into the league.

‘Clearly there’s possibly issues astir TV revenue, money, immoderate mode that would look like, and determination whitethorn beryllium a situation to that.

‘But, I deliberation from a shot perspective, I’ve ever felt that the summation successful the league would help.’

The thought of taking 2 teams retired of the part already looks doomed to failure, particularly fixed that 11 of the 12 Premiership clubs would request to ballot successful favour. 

Retaining the presumption quo, positive options for 14 and 16 teams, volition besides beryllium discussed amid concerns the fixture paper is adjacent breaking point.

While Rodgers declared himself ‘fairly comfortable’ with the 38-game total, helium warned the prime of shot successful wide was astatine hazard from over-saturation.

The enlargement of European contention some astatine league signifier and successful knockout-round play-offs besides meant determination was nary scope for the Premiership to person a wintertime interruption this season.

‘There tin beryllium excessively overmuch football,’ helium said. ‘There perfectly can. We each emotion football. I ticker shot from each astir the world, games astir nights, sometimes 3 oregon 4 games a day, but you hazard conscionable showing excessively overmuch which, successful time, mightiness crook radical off. So I deliberation we conscionable person to beryllium cautious with the game.

‘I’ve besides mentioned before, I bash deliberation it volition go a 12-month season. The crippled and players whitethorn person to look astatine antithetic betterment periods different than conscionable successful the summer.

‘This has been the archetypal afloat play with the other Champions League games successful determination and without the wintertime break.

‘So there’s nary uncertainty that was a pugnacious play and we managed to get done it incredibly well. That’s not to accidental that happens each season.’