My view on that is, you think further down the line, there may be high-profile managers who would look at the treatment of Rogers and how vicious that attack was on Brendan Rodgers, and think twice about maybe coming to Celtic and their reputations being damaged if there’s a fallout.
Let’s be absolutely clear: Dermot Desmond is not the owner of Celtic. He’s not the chairman, not the CEO, and not an elected voice of the support. He’s an unelected, unaccountable figure who’s somehow decided that Celtic exists to serve his ego.
Failure born from a decade of short-termism, underinvestment, and a boardroom that treats football as an inconvenience to its balance sheet. This is Celtic.
Chris Sutton presented the sensible balanced case. In the studio Lennon and Boyd were like a tag team with one idea being shared. Operation demonise Brendan!
I worked with them and they are class operators. They know the environment and culture of European football and they look ahead. They are such a well run club but people want instant success constantly.
Chris Sutton and Neil Lennon were involved in a fiery exchange over Celtic’s recruitment issues ahead of the dismal 0-0 draw at Ibrox.In truth there was more life, excitement and passion in the exchange between the former team-mates than the ‘action’ that followed which involved a combined two shots at…
Over the next three weeks Celtic will publish their accounts for the year to 30 June 2025 with turnover in or around £150m on the back of five Champions League matches bolstered by selling Matt O’Riley and Kyogo Furuhashi, the fee for Nicolas Kuhn is on the 25/26 ledger.
In those days I really did not want to give an inch, I knew how it worked. I wasn’t letting anyone get the upper hand on us.
It’s a beautiful game, but it’s ruthless. And Celtic were exposed to name. There’s still lots of mileage in this group for them to go, but they’ve got to analyze and say themselves. We can’t do this away from home against top teams.
My annoyance was people couldn’t really see that it wasn’t all down to coaching, team tactics, team selection, it was down to a million other things that were going on that caused the problems that weren’t football related.