Will Brendan Rodgers “declare war on Dermot Desmond”? + the Celtic AGM

Will Brendan Rodgers “declare war on Dermot Desmond”? + the Celtic AGM

10:00 PM Oct 28, 2026: A year on from Brendan Rodgers leaving Celtic after a 3-1 defeat at Hearts, Peter Martin, Stephen McGowan and Gordon Parks ask what he’ll say if he comes back to Glasgow: “Do you declare war on Dermot Desmond?” Then the Celtic AGM, 12 months after last year’s was abandoned (”I think they’re worse off”), what the shareholders should do (”that does not come with shouting”), and why “nothing will change until everything chang…

Desmond’s evisceration of Brendan Rodgers has gifted him martyrdom in the eyes of Celtic fans. Desmond, in return, faces eternal damnation…

Today, I’m continuing to look back on the fall out from Brendan Rodgers’ Celtic resignation. The article I’m looking at focuses on the character assassination Dermot Desmond unleashed on Brendan Rodgers only hours after he departed the club for the second time. Rodgers had declared that he would have to be ’emptied’ if he left Celtic before the conclusion of his 3 year contract. Well, Desmond emptied him alright, and then some. I thought at the …