CELTIC captain Scott Brown has admitted he is desperate to help the Parkhead club win 10-in-a-row – despite the imminent return of Rangers to the top flight of Scottish football.

Brown and his team mates were subjected to protests from fans unhappy with performances this season before the Ladbrokes Premiership match with Ross County at Celtic Park on Sunday.

Ronny Deila announced last week that he will stand down at the end of the 2015/16 campaign following his side’s penalty shoot-out defeat to their Old Firm rivals in the William Hill Scottish Cup semi-final.

But speaking at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin where he was promoting the International Champions Cup match between Celtic and Barcelona on July 30, Brown stressed he hasn’t been fazed by either the loss to Rangers or Deila’s decision to quit.

The 30-year-old wants to ensure Celtic win a fifth straight Premiership title in the next fortnight – and then win another five after that to eclipse the achievements of the Celtic and Rangers teams which completed nine-in-a-row.

He said: “We are going to win the league. That is huge for this club. We are going to go for five-in-a-row if we win this. Then we are going to go for six, then we are going to go seven and we are going to continue that.

“The supporters want 10 and we want 10. I don’t know if my body will give another five, but I will give it a shot.

“We all want it. The players all want the same thing as the supporters. We need to go a lot closer. We know we need to do better. They are just telling us that.”

“We need to give something back to this football club. The fans have been great for us all season through. They support us no matter what. They support us through thick and thin.

"We need to get as many in a row as possible. If it’s 10 and onwards it would be exceptional for this club. It would show how well we have grown over the years.”

Meanwhile, Brown has denied that Peter Lawwell, the Celtic chief executive, coming into the Celtic changing room following the 1-1 draw with Ross County on Sunday was unusual.

And he has backed the Parkhead board to identify the best man to replace Deila in the coming weeks.

“It is his building!” he said. “He can do whatever he wants! He runs the ship! Seriously, though, Peter comes in all the time.

“He has done a great job since coming in. Hopefully in the next couple of games we will win five-in-a-row. Not a lot of Celtic teams have done that since Jock Stein so it just shows you. It has been good in that way. But we know we need to get better. Everyone.

“It’s not for me make a judgement on who the board should talk to or look at. I will just leave it to them to do. I am sure they will sort the right man out and give him the right budget and it’ll be done and dusted by pre-season.”

Deila’s predecessor Neil Lennon admitted last week that he would welcome the chance to speak to the Celtic board about the position and Brown admitted he had impressed him during his previous spell in charge.

“He (Lennon) knows the club,” he said. “He has been here for a long time both as a player and as a manager. He was exceptional here the last time and he was great for me as well. But for me talk about who the board should look at is not right.”