THE Ronny Roar has become something of a feature in Scottish football since Ronny Deila was appointed Celtic manager last summer.

The Norwegian’s habit of walking out onto the park and punching the air repeatedly following victories has delighted those supporters who have taken the charismatic figure to their hearts.

Yet, if he continues to be subjected to the sort of criticism and scrutiny which has come his way in the wake of the defeat to Molde then The Ronny Rant could soon replace it.

Deila’s position has been the subject of much conjecture since the abject display in a Europa League group game his side lost 3-1 in his homeland last Thursday evening.

Alex McLeish, the former Rangers manager, this week claimed that winning a domestic Treble in the 2015/16 campaign may not be enough for him to secure his job for another season.

Meanwhile, Pat Bonner, the legendary Celtic keeper, expressed the view that he has to secure a league and cup double and progress to the knockout stages in Europe in order to avoid the sack.

There was a distinct lack of composure, the quality for which Scandinavians are so renowned, as Deila reacted to another week of newspaper headlines and feverish speculation about his personal situation.

“Is he a Celtic man?” he enquired when asked to respond to the McLeish comments. “I know he was a Rangers manager. Do you think he knows what is going on at Celtic? I don’t think so.”

Deila, whose side take on Ladbrokes Premiership rivals Aberdeen at Celtic Park this afternoon, directed a sly dig at McLeish who has been out of work since parting company with Genk in Belgium last season

“So the people outside saying things, look at their own careers,” he said. “All of them. Have they always been successful? I don’t think so. Because they have been in football and out of football.

“Everybody can have opinions. You get new jobs when you don’t have anything in football, and you start in the media. And that’s okay, I have no problem with it, but we have to understand what we’re doing here.

“We have a team here that is quite successful and has unbelievable demands on it. When we win it’s like nothing. Nothing. When we lose, it’s a scandal! Everything is unbelievable.”

Deila was at pains to stress how much more pressure Celtic are under and how much more flak they receive when they fail to produce results compared to every other club in Scotland – including Rangers.

“Where are Rangers and where are Celtic?” he said. “That’s important. Everything we do is against what we have done in the last years when the demands are unbelievable.

“Rangers are happy that they win games in the Championship. Then they lose against St Johnstone and everything is okay because that’s how it’s going to be.

“It’s easier to build up a club when it’s nothing and you are going somewhere. But when you win, win, win we should be proud. Everyone wants to hurt us, but we know it. I couldn’t care less.”

Deila continued: “We are into everything in Scotland. We are going into a semi-final. Are Rangers going into a semi-final? No. Are Aberdeen going into a semi-final? No.

“Have they rested for a week or two weeks? Yes. Have we played four games in nine days? Yes. If we win tomorrow we are seven points clear. Is that good? I don’t know.

“This club is unbelievably big. It’s so successful, and that’s why the demands are like that. Everybody wants to see weakness and negativity.”

Deila even dismissed the comments made by Bonner, who spent 17 years as a player at Celtic, in his extraordinary tirade. “Has he won four titles in a row with Celtic?” he asked. “No, okay.”

The 40-year-old stressed that he requires time to rebuild Celtic after losing his two first choice centre backs, Jason Denayer and Virgil van Dijk, since the end of last season and being blighted by injury this term.

“You can see we are turning into an even more offensive team,” he said. “You can see that we want to buy in young players and build them up. That’s not what I said we are going to do – it’s how the club has to be driven.

“If everything is negative all the time on the outside, everyone who is not in the club is getting that inside their brains all the time. That everything is bad. Sometimes I have to say: ‘What’s going on here?’

“There are so many positive things. We are going in the right way here. You can talk about this game or those two games, but, overall, we are fighting for everything.

“I take this very seriously. But sometimes it’s a little bit funny for me to listen to all these crazy things going on. It’s a big selling club. That’s what we are. We sell the best players when we are ready and then buy talent. Yet we still keep on winning.

“We are going the right way, building a culture, having a picture being painted, that’s what I want to do. I have a picture inside my mind of what Celtic is going to look like.

“We are going the right way, but we take two steps forward and then a step back. We get an injury or two and we step back again. It’s managing the situation, but also having a long view of everything.”

Deila added: “We don’t buy like the other club (Rangers) when they were at the top, buying the biggest players, Gazza and whoever coming. Big players. We don’t do that at Celtic now, so we have to create it.

“Players who haven’t done anything before they came here, Scottish players who have been playing with smaller clubs. Do you think they are Champions League players while playing at Dundee United? It doesn’t work like that. You build yourself up through experience, through learning.

“That’s the reality people have to see. That doesn’t come across when you see all this writing. I am happy I am not reading it because it would make me even more furious!”