Bhoycie 
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - MAY 16: (L-R) Celtic interim chairman Brian Wilson, majority shareholder Dermot Desmond and chief executive Michael Nicholson during a William Hill Premiership match between Celtic and Heart of Midlothian at Celtic Park, on May 16, 2026, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Craig Foy/SNS Group via Getty Images)
The lure of the Celtic job is there for all to see. You wouldn’t know it under this Dictator.
Competing for trophies, Champions League football opportunities every year.
The Celtic job ticks so many more boxes also for a plethora of football managers out there.
However, if you are a prospective manager and you see the career assassination of a colleague like Brendan Rogers what would you think?
An Invincible Season in his first spell.
A record breaking calendar year in his second spell.
Yet eviscerated in a ridiculous letter posted on the Club website as recently as October 2025.
What a turn off.
Agents of any potential manager would be seeing red flags and advising their client to to not touch it with a barge pole.
It could jeopardise any future work in theory.
What a sh*tshow when you reflect.
I speculated at the time it may hamper our next Manager Search such is the career damage a damning letter like that could cause.
I am amazed Brendan or a representative of his never responded.
Does putting off so many managers suit the Absentee Landlord?
Narrows the list down to his old pals from the Phone Book?
Its unbelievable to think considering the success we have had domestically, the European football we can offer, the volume of Season Tickets sold etc, that we don’t have the longest short list you have ever seen!
But no, 2 ex Celtic loanees and a former Celtic Manager who stood in twice last year to save our season.
That’s really all he could muster?
Desmond cannot have it both ways.
Either the Celtic job is no longer attractive far and wide or you are incapable of scouting beyond the contact list on your mobile phone.
Both scenario’s are the responsibility of Dermot Desmond.
He never saw the dilemma he currently faces coming.
Because his football expertise is found massively wanting.
Martin O’Neill ripped up the Summer script.
Desmond wouldn’t have expected Martin to get a double. He certainly wouldn’t have expected Robbie Keane to not win the league in Hungary.
You’d think he would be used to forecasting it wrong when it comes to football matters by now.
If I’m being totally honest with you, I think he’s doubling down on the letter that he passed to his son at the AGM.
F**k you. We know better. That’s what I think he’s he’s doing right now. We know better.
We’re the power in the room, not you.
The louder you shout against it, the more we are doubling down.
We do the hiring and the firing.
Buy your Season Ticket and your 50 new merch releases.
Know your role. Shut your mouth. And like it.
That’s what the Keane appointment would scream of to me.
When it comes to real challenges laid to Celtic in the Desmond era – we have been found wanting.
Celtic have had to spend the minimal amount on his watch to have our Domestic Bliss and he wants all the focus on that and not where we fail so miserably year on year – Europe.
When it comes to Champions League Qualifiers, the club is never prepared for it and that is off the field in terms of recruitment and in terms of a transfer structure that’s befitting of Europes Premier Competition.
Profits are put before players.
Balance Sheets before Team Sheets.
We have failed to navigate 7 of the last 9 Champions League Qualifiers.
That is an astonishingly bad record.
Is this all due to self serving managers as well?
O’Neill, Strachan, Lennon, Deila, Rodgers, Postecoglou have all suffered CL Qualifier knockouts.
Desmond has been at the helm for them all.
It gets worse though, his Domestic Bliss cage was rattled as well because along come Hearts with some good investment, a strategy and with a system that is far more sophisticated – Jamestown Analytics – than what Celtic had at their disposal.
I shudder to think what our equivalent data analysis is at Celtic Park.
Heart were 5 minutes away from calling the bluff on 20 years of dominance with a League Title win that would of exposed the foolish Board and their Daddy Desmond.
So that’s what we have looked like when a challenge has been put in front of him.
All evidence points towards us coming up short for the Champions League again.
Manager shortlists based on his contacts list.
Arrogance beyond belief.
We see you Dermot, the supporters have woken up.
Keep Your Eyes on The Board.
Aodhán Ó Conchobhair 
Eric Knott 
I just wonder how many top class managers have applied for the job. It looks to me like there is only the two and one of them isn`t sure whether or not he wants it. A case of disappointed if he doesn`t get it and blind panic if he does.
The simple fact of the matter is that Celtic are extremely limited in finding the type of manager the fans want.
If they want one even in the middle bracket he probably wouldn`t be interested. If they go for one on the same level as Rodgers they would be more successful as his kind are ten a penny and most likely be “having a
year off to spend more time with family”.
At least the acting profession are more straightforward by saying they are “resting”.
I was surprised The 3rd best manager in our HISTORY didn’t respond to the unbelievable statement that was put out by a drunken old golfer who didn’t have the guts to send it personally but had to do it through celtic to make it almost impossible for Brendan to take action against HIM (The coward) he would have to take action against the club. But as time passes Brendan or John Kennedy don’t have to say a thing just look at the complete shit show/circus that Desmond and his parasites have caused.
Sometimes Silence speaks a thousand words and in this case times that with 10.
From a legend like Rodgers to scraping the barrel with Keane who has achieved practically hee haw in management, if wasn’t for him being Irish and playing for us for 5 months he wouldn’t even mentioned for the job.
And for that case neither does Craig Bellamy.
A well run club the size of ours should be scouring the planet but that’s the problem we’re not well run