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Robbie Hanratty

The league table that shows Rangers and Hearts consistency in player loyalty

The Rangers players involved in delivering the club's historic 55th title earned legendary status.

And new stats show how title-winning manager Steven Gerrard and successor Giovanni van Bronckhorst have stuck by last season's heroes.

The Ibrox club has shown huge loyalty with only 33 players in total used in the last year.

That, along with Hearts, is the lowest of any club in the Scottish Premiership as the Jambos kept faith with many of the stars who won them promotion.

Celtic, on the other hand, have used the most as Ange Postecoglou had to oversee a club transformation.

The Parkhead boss admitted when he arrived at the club that they were too slow to recruit and he also had to assess the players he inherited.

Postecoglou has transformed Celtic since taking the managerial reigns in June last year and it may come as no surprise that the Parkhead club have used the most players.

The Australian has brought several talented Japanese stars to Scotland with his previous job being with Yokohama F. Marinos in the J. League.

But Postecoglou has found the perfect blend with his side now sitting three points clear at the summit.

The data from the CIES Football Observatory calculated the players used from February 14 last year until this year.

Kyogo Furuhashi, Rio Hatate and Daizen Maeda have all made an immediate impact at the Hoops.

Only three points currently separate the Glasgow pair as we reach the business end of the season with only 11 league games remaining.

Livingston are second in terms of players used with 42 and St Johnstone sit just in behind which might answer some of their inconsistency.

Players used in the last 365 days up until 14/02/2022.

44 - Celtic

42 - Livingston

41 - St Johnstone

39 - Dundee United

38 - Ross County

37 - Motherwell

35 - Aberdeen

34 - Hibernian

34 - St Mirren

34 - Dundee

33 - Rangers

33 - Hearts

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