Ireland's former Celtic star Aiden McGeady has "no sympathy" for crisis-hit Rangers, but fears the Scottish Premier League would be "naff" without them, he told RIA Novosti on Monday.
McGeady started his career at Rangers' arch-rivals Celtic before moving to Spartak Moscow in 2010.
"They're falling apart, obviously at the minute. I'm a Celtic fan, so I've no real sympathy," he said.
Were Rangers to collapse, he would be happy, he said.
"Looking at it from a Celtic fan's point of view, of course every Celtic fan would take joy in it," he said.
However, the Scottish league would be less interesting without the Old Firm rivalry, and Celtic might suffer as result, he said.
Asked whether Celtic needed an opponent like Rangers, he said: "Possibly they do, because without Rangers the SPL would be quite naff because it would just be Celtic and the other teams below them."
Glasgow-born McGeady elected to represent Ireland, for whom he has scored two goals and won 47 caps.
He featured as a second-half substitute in Spartak's 2-1 home defeat to city rivals CSKA Moscow on Monday.
