Celtic Football Club’s incoming Chief Executive Dom McKay said he was excited by the progress being made to get fans back inside Paradise during a press conference in which he also discussed how impressed he has been by Ange Postecoglou’s plans for success as manager.

Dom McKay sat down with Ange Postecoglou today (Friday) at Celtic Park as the new Celtic manager held his first press conference.

The incoming Chief Executive officially welcomed Ange Postecoglou and praised the Australian manager’s plans for the team.

“I’m delighted we’re welcoming Ange to Celtic Park today,” said Dom McKay. “Securing Ange is a huge coup for this club.

'Having spent a number of weeks getting to know Ange I’m hugely impressed by his style, plans philosophy and I cannot wait to see him taking the team in the games ahead.'

"We have a real winner in Ange and that’s something that was very important to the club so I’m thrilled we’ve managed to secure him.

“It’s a huge job to be the manager of Celtic Football Club, you need a lot of experience, and Ange’s 25 years of experience at international and club level will be hugely helpful to Celtic.”

Dominic McKay said one of his main priorities was to help Ange Postecoglou settle into the role and help build a successful team for the season ahead. He also underlined his determination to do everything possible to ensure Celtic fans would be back inside Paradise very soon.

“The priority for me just now is to settle Ange in and make sure we have a productive pre-season and then start to evolve and modernise the club,” he said. “We want to get spectators back inside the stadium and I’ve just come off a call with the Scottish government which gave me enormous confidence that we’re going to get some spectators in before too long. Our priority has to be to settle the team in, settle Ange in and then make sure we get people back into the building.

“That’s the focus for us and there are other things one can do to make sure the closeness between the club and supporters is a bit tighter but, ultimately, it comes down to having a successful team and having people back in the building and that’s a big focus for us.

“The announcement that came through from the First Minister about a week ago, in respect to social distancing being reduced on July 19^th and again on August 9th, gives us renewed confidence that we can get large volumes of supporters back in to back the team at Celtic Park and other stadiums across Scotland.

“We’re very active with the government and council to make sure we have robust plans. That’s what our supporters have been crying out for, the opportunity to come back in and support their team and I can’t wait for that to happen.”

Dom McKay lays out plans for success and getting fans back inside Paradise