Should Celtic fans be careful what they wish for?

Here's a question that may have some supporters spurting out their tea: does the Celtic board get enough respect?

The scenes at last week's AGM would suggest a club in crisis. Such open revolt would normally be associated with a failing team, an institution teetering on the brink financially, a raft of executives not fit for purpose.

None of which is the case at Parkhead. Home to the club with the country's healthiest bank balance and a run of success unprecedented in Scottish football.

Four trebles in a row in recent times; a virtual monopoly on domestic silverware extending to 13 Premiership titles from the past 14. A minute – and some sloppy defending – from beating Bayern Munich away in the Champions League knockout stage.

Sack the board? You're kidding, right? Football fans from Stranraer to Ross County would bite your hand off for a fraction of those trophies. The Parkhead custodians should be properly, and regularly, held to account. But all in good measure and with the proper perspective.

Fan power can work, of course. Celtic supporters need only look to their city rivals. The Rangers support was not prepared to tolerate Russell Martin, Patrick Stewart and Kevin Thelwell.

Rangers, though, have been a failing club; Celtic have not. Granted, large parts of 2025 have been pretty dismal. Both transfer windows, the Scottish Cup final, the Champions League fiasco with Kairat Almaty.

A worrying dip in corporate and sporting performance, yes. Sustained and catastrophic decline? Hardly.

The verbal grenades launched recently by Dermot Desmond are presumably because he's staggered at the suggestion he and his fellow board members haven't done a good job this century in the overall stewardship of the club.

They trumpet their model unashamedly: live within your means, buy low, sell high, speculate to accumulate when you can.

The rainy day they're preparing for is just around the corner. In summer 2027, the Scottish champions will face three rounds of qualifying to reach the Champions League. This season Celtic couldn't negotiate one.

There's every chance revenues will decline significantly in the next few years. Being prepared for that isn't just sensible. It's a fiduciary obligation.

Were the board asleep at the wheel of Brendan Rodgers' Honda Civic? Quite possibly. Firmer action from Desmond over the summer may have prevented all the recent carnage.

But are the executives who led the side to the verge of victory in the Allianz Arena suddenly not fit for purpose?

Given the state of other clubs in the UK, some Celtic supporters may want to be more careful what they wish for.