Dermot Desmond

It doesn't take much in fairness.. permanently raging mutant *

 

Again, credit goes to this man for doing the right thing and going for the best option we had. Anyone who can take time to slate him, go look at our trophy haul since he took over. He's a valuable asset to our club and is going to continue collecting the silverware and putting it proudly in our trophy room. Hopefully before he retires, we have one of the European trophies sitting beside all our domestic trophies at parkhead.

 

Thank * he got over his wanting of Roy Keane!

 

Not usually a fan of the big mustachio * pulling rank on footballing matters, it's not his remit, but on this occasion am glad he did. Must have been some interesting discussions going on this past couple of weeks I'd have loved to be privy to

Will never forget that image of him and Lawwell at Hampden, absolutely fizzing despite just securing anotger treble. Should have known there and then that big things were about to happen.

Enjoy your cigar the night ya big *.

 

he gets what he wants

 

He does what the * he likes! He won't forget 2016 when the board of the huns where giving him the middle finger in the directors boxing and all laughing, he told ze specky one to make it happen, he got involved himself and it worked out how he wanted it! He has promised to back brendan fully and will young lawwell dealing with recruitment and the foundations ange laid both on and off the pitch we are in a very good place. Don't let the media, huns or detractors tell you otherwise, they are all fizzing and the big man's sitting the night laughing like *. Enjoy yer cigar Pat Mustard ya big * *

 

It’s his Picnic

 

Why can't he be this interested in us all the time, someone needs to find a way to * him off every summer.

 

He's a very influential and rich man. Like previous posters have said - I wish he would just stay this involved full time. He just decides what he wants and goes and gets it. Money is no object.

I bet he's never hung about the Asda reduced section waiting for the wee guy to start reducing the stuff even further.

 

Dermot Desmond's Celtic influence greater than any manager



Celtic supporters under the age of 25 can consider themselves fortunate because they have grown up witnessing a catalogue of success which is unprecedented in the history of the Scottish game.



Since the appointment of Martin O’Neill as manager on June 1 2000 their club has won 38 of the 69 domestic trophies available to them, with Rangers in second place with 17.

More worrying for their biggest rivals is that Celtic’s monopoly of the silverware has increased in recent years. They have won 17 of the last 21, with Rangers and St Johnstone sharing two apiece.


While credit has rightly been apportioned to the contributions made by managers O’Neill, Gordon Strachan, Neil Lennon, Ronny Deila, Brendan Rodgers and Ange Postecoglou, Lennon argues that major shareholder Dermot Desmond has done more than anyone to create Celtic’s supremacy.

Desmond prefers to avoid the spotlight but he is a divisive figure among the Parkhead faithful, some of whom point to the billionaire businessman’s apparent preference for golf and horse racing plus his infrequent appearance at Celtic’s matches as an indication of a lack of passion for the club.



Lennon, though, insists that the 72-year-old’s commitment to Celtic is as unquestionable as the part he has played in the triumphs they have achieved this century.

“It’s difficult to see an end to Celtic’s domination for a long time yet and that’s not Celtic’s fault: it’s up to Rangers and the rest of Scottish football to try and catch up to them,” he said.

“I put that success all down to Dermot Desmond. He was the one who broke the mould in 2000, when Rangers had just won their 11th title in 12 seasons by finishing 21 points ahead of Celtic.

“He brought Martin O’Neill in as manager and bankrolled big-money signings like Chris Sutton, John Hartson, Joos Valgaeren, Alan Thompson and myself.




Dermot’s also invested in quality managers so that even when Celtic couldn’t compete with the big English clubs in the transfer market they could still find top-class players who’d flown under their radar – players like Victor Wanyama, Virgil van Dijk, Kristoffer Ajer and Odsonne Edouard.

“They were all sold on for a profit and the club kept winning things and Dermot deserves an enormous amount of credit for that.”

Yet there remain doubters, with Desmond’s 25% share in Shamrock Rovers another stick which is occasionally used to beat him. Former Celtic director Brian Dempsey (“The battle is over – the rebels have won”) claimed in 2021 that he believed Desmond was bored with Scottish football.

Lennon, however, stressed that the criticism Dermot (who never attends the club’s agm to address shareholders) receives is unjustified and also points out that he is not the remote, uninterested figure his detractors believe him to be.

“He comes in for a ridiculous amount of stick from supporters and I don’t understand that,” he said.

“When you look back at the 25 years he’s been the major shareholder it’s been success almost all the way – a UEFA Cup final, three times in the last 16 of the Champions League plus all the domestic triumphs.

“It’s been a golden period for Celtic ever since the turn of the millennium and he’s been at the forefront of that. I don’t think he’ll like being given the credit for it but some of the stick he gets simply isn’t justified.



Back in 2004 I’d been in the team which had lost to Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League and I said in an interview that we were going backwards and we needed investment in the team.

“Dermot called me and we had a frank conversation, during which he made me see the big picture. That chat changed my perception about how football’s run and made me realise it wasn’t as black and white as I’d thought.

“He’s very forward thinking, he just loves sport in general and he was always very supportive of me when I was manager. We would speak regularly about how things were at the club.”

 

Why wont he shut up??

Every other day he's out talking about us

 

part of the reason i love (and sometimes hate) Dermot is when things are going well he stays back let's the staff do there job and take all the credit, but when things are going wrong steps in and just gets * done, it looks like disinterest at times which is annoying but i love to hate him.

 

Why do people get so annoyed? He's hardly saying anything controversial and like it or not he's been a big part of our history and will continue to be relevant in regsrd to this football club.

 

Constantly out praising Desmond and lawell.
Knowing him I wouldnt be suprised if he's saw rodgers being forgiven and welcomed back and he probably thinks he'll be next in line.
It's not a coincidence that since Rodgers had returned he's been in papers every other day offering an opinion on absolutely everything to do with the club.

Defend him all you want but there are sections of the support that are still * raging with him and how unprofessional he was when he was the manager and get * off with seeing him talk about the club.

He turned on the fans but according to you we can't do the same?

 

It would actually help desmonds image if he bothered to turn the * up at an agm and communicate with the support.

It's really not that hard

A guy who continually avoids active communication with fans is disliked, what a shock.