Dermot Desmond wants to see Celtic back in the knock-out stages of the Champions League.
Tomorrow night Celtic host Fenerbahce in the Europa League following successive failures to reach the last 32 of the elite competition.
It’s less than three years since Celtic beat Barcelona on route to the last 16 with Desmond, who first invested in Celtic 20 years ago, insisting that the club still aspires to mix it with the best sides on the continent.
“I think there’s a major disconnect between the finance available to teams in Scotland and the finances to the Premier League, La Liga etc,” the Irishman told STV.
“With the resource available and the club in good financial health what we’re trying to do is to apply intellectual capital onto financial capital too and improve the performances of the team.
“I’m confident that in the future the best of Ronny Deila and the best of Celtic is to come.
“I think in fairness we have greater resources than any other team at present in the Scottish Premiership. I think our first challenge is to win the Premiership and get into competing in the Champions League. After that it is qualifying for the later stages of the Champions League.
“Winning the league, it’s not about points. It’s like golf, it’s not how you play the hole it is what the result is at the end.”
Celtic’s Champions League conquerors Malmo face Real Madrid at home tonight after opening their campaign with a defeat away to Paris St-Germain.
We’ve found some excellent players, but there off down to England as soon as they can get away. We need to hold a team together to get back into the champions league. Remains to be seen if that happens!
HH
Just what is intellectual capital Mr Desmond ?
Is that the new buzz word you Capitalists use to avoid investment in your Club.
You just gave the GASL an new buzz word for excuses at Ibrox as well .
Intellectual Capital my ars-foot.
Joe,
If you see Dermot Desmond before I do….tell him that we, the support., want the same thing…
Problem is…
We don’t have the money.
Over to you DD.
I can’t see why he is at Celtic he is the second richest man in the UK. And will not put a penny into Celtic someone needs to tell him that he can’t take it with him and if your reading this Mr Desmond you will allways be remembered as the man who held Celtic back its time to move on and bring the rest of the Irish parasites with ya
And we don’t spend money we don’t have.
ZOMBIE COURT CASE :
28 YEARS LATER.
Well Mr Desmond if you want to see the club back in the Champions League then sit down with your Chief Executive and the rest of your board and come up with a better strategy that doesn’t leave us having to rebuild our team EVERY season because you have sold our best players at the first opportunity and wasted our precious resources on the bulk buying of mediocrity. Oh and while you are at it could you give it a rest with the ‘Celtic joining the EPL/British league is inevitable’ garbage because it is not inevitable, you are trying to manipulate the Celtic support to continue to back your ‘vision’ for the club with ridiculous unfounded claims.
If Celtic Football Club means anything to Desmond, if it’s not just some status symbol to show off to his mates about how rich he is then he should get a bit more involved in resolving our longer term problems instead of just gracing us fans with his presence once a year to utter some nonsensical sound-bite about future glories. Not asking him to throw his billions at the first team just asking him to come up with a better strategy because the current one is detrimental to the club’s success.