Neil Lennon baffled by Celtic fan anger towards board as Dermot Desmond defended

The depressing 2-0 home loss to Hearts on Saturday gave the Parkhead crowd their first goal of the season. Should the Viaplay Cup champions win their remaining two games, Rangers would have the opportunity to overtake them at the top of the table. For a few weeks prior, Brendan Rodgers’ team led the Light Blues by seven points; what a dismal collapse it has been.

Angry supporters have charged the board with employing a subpar transfer policy following the summer’s £20 million expenditure, which was primarily on development players. Only Luis Palma, out of the nine arrivals, played in the devastating loss over the weekend; Rodgers has made it plain that he will require more “quality” when the window reopens in a month.

The Hoops administration has also drawn criticism for not lifting their ban on the Green Brigade, which has prevented the largest fan base of the team from attending 13 games and counting. The former leader, Lennon, is unable to comprehend the negative sentiment directed at Michael Nicholson and Peter Lawwell following almost ten years of supremacy in the country.

“I don’t think there’s any need to panic,” he said to PLZ Soccer. According to their record, this is their first back-to-back loss in a decade and their first home loss in fifty-two games. Records are meant to be broken because the bar is so high.

“However, we must admit that the current Celtic performance isn’t up to par, so they’ll need to rally everyone in the vicinity and dig deep.” The supporters must realize that the team is facing some hardship, and that it is the team and the management that require their support during this time, not the other way around.

“Given that the board just won a treble last year, I know there was some discontent, but I don’t understand why. It’s been pure dominance for the past twenty-odd years since Dermot arrived; six Trebles, three last-six finishes, I could go on.

Thus, you have to exercise caution when making wishes. However, things are not good right now. Brendan appears to be holding out for the January transfer window because of the lack of consistency. He needs to put in more work right now to obtain more from this team.”