Celtic and Rangers’ combined starting XI including £11.7m-rated ace as one team dominates

Celtic have made a solid start to the new season and find themselves top of the table. The Hoops are hoping to retain their title under Brendan Rodgers.

As for Rangers, they are 3rd behind their Glasgow rivals and Aberdeen as they look to start picking up some more points over the coming weeks and months. Here is a look at a combined XI based on the highest ratings by football data website Transfermarkt…

GK: Jack Butland, £2.5 million, Rangers

RB: Celtic’s Alistair Johnston, £7.1 million

CB: Celtic’s Cameron Carter-Vickers, £11.7 million

CB: Auston Trusty, £5.8 million, Celtic

LB: Greg Taylor, £6.25 million, Celtic
CM: Reo Hatate, £8.3 million, Celtic

CM: Celtic, Arne Engels, £7.5 million

RW: Rangers’ Vaclav Cerny, £5.83 million

LW: £5.83 million Daizen Maeda, Celtic

ST: Kyogo Furuhashi, £11.6 million, Celtic

Danilo, Rangers, £5 million

Rangers has three players and Celtic has eight on the eleven-man roster. Before Kasper Schmeichel, the Hoops’ summer acquisition, arrives, Jack Butland slips in.

Alistair Johnston, Cameron Carter-Vickers, Auston Trusty, and Greg Taylor make up the all-Celtic back four. Trusty, who was bought by them from Sheffield United last month, stated, “I know Cam (Carter-Vickers) well.” I got to know him rather well during that time because we roomed together for the entire month of our Under-20 World Cup tour and played together. Meeting all the boys is something else I’m excited about. I’m looking forward to it because I’ve heard the club has a terrific atmosphere. I’m overjoyed. I have known about this famous and magnificent club since I was a young child.