He also believes that the quality of football in Scotland would suffer without Glasgow's big two.

The Parkhead club and their city rivals Rangers were surprised when the nation's other top flight clubs announced their intention to resign from the Scottish Premier League in two years' time.

The decision came after the Old Firm vetoed proposals for an SPL television channel.

At Sunday night's Celtic Hall of Fame dinner, Quinn said: "Celtic and Rangers are responsible for 80% of the revenue from televised football and yet we receive only 32%.

"For the rest of the Premier League clubs to talk about leaving us behind represents a huge gamble and could be interpreted as a decision that's been taken in anger.

"It will result in smaller squads with less skilled players and the kind of football that will have no meaningful part in a European context.

"Standards among the ten are likely to decline even further and Scottish football will fall even further in reputation and esteem.

"Celtic want no part of such a set-up. Our ambitions have to be greater than that.