The eye-watering value of Dermot Desmond and Peter Lawwell’s Celtic shares

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There is a sense of unrest amongst Celtic fans after a combination of this summer’s transfer business and the recent Champions League elimination.

Fans are pointing fingers at the Celtic board with the general feeling now that change is needed at the top and not at management level.

Chants of sack the board preceded Celtic’s draw with Kairat Almaty at Parkhead last Wednesday and after Tuesday’s elimination from the competition, anger is swelling in the Hoops support.

So what if Celtic fans do want change, how could that change come about? Realistically, buying out the current major shareholders at the club would be the quickest option.

But even if Dermot Desmond and others wanted to sell, how much would it cost to buy them out? It’s a lot more expensive than Celtic fans may have first thought.

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How much it could cost to buy Dermot Desmond and Peter Lawwell’s Celtic shares

Dermot Desmond is widely regarded as the man at Celtic with the single largest shareholding at the club.

Peter Lawwell also has a sizeable number of shares invested in the Parkhead club. With the current share price sitting at 182.67p, according to Sharecast, both Celtic executives have a sizeable investment at the club with a significant value.

• Dermot Desmond

Shares held in Celtic: 32,772,073

Value: £59,863,654.86

• Peter Lawwell

Shares held in Celtic: 356,000

Value: £650,293.35

There is another director who holds a sizeable shareholding at Celtic.

Thomas Allison’s Celtic shares

Thomas Allison is an active company director at Celtic and also holds a sizeable investment in the club. He was appointed to the board in 1997.

Here is the number of shares and the current value that Allison holds in Celtic:

• Shares: 3,357,505
• Value: £6,133,042.62

With fans seemingly desperate for change in the Celtic boardroom, it will take an investor with a large sum of disposable cash to elicit that change if people within the club were willing to sell up.