Desmond not underwriting Roy’s wages

CELTIC shareholder Dermot Desmond yesterday refuted suggestions that he would be personally underwriting a huge chunk of Roy Keane’s reputed £40,000 salary at Parkhead.

“I want Roy Keane but I want Celtic to pay for him,” said Desmond. “That’s not true that I’m paying some of his wages. I’ve been hearing that all day, but it’s incorrect.”

Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell echoed Desmond’s point at the press conference which unveiled Keane as a Celtic player: