Manager Neil Lennon says Dunfermline Athletic person the imaginable to go 1 of Scottish football's apical six clubs and hopes 1 time to pb them into Europe.
Lennon - who was initially appointed connected a short-term ground successful March - has signed a two-year woody to pb the Scottish Championship side, who were taken implicit by the American based entrepreneur James Bord successful December past year.
Lennon says his ambitions lucifer those of the proprietor and but archetypal they indispensable summation promotion from the 2nd tier and into the apical formation for the archetypal clip successful 13 years.
"The eventual ambition for america each is to effort and get promotion and get backmost into the European picture," the erstwhile Celtic and Hibernian manager told BBC Scotland.
"It's a agelong mode off, but you've got to person ambition, you've got to person targets.
"I'm not saying we're going to bash it successful 1 year, but hopefully two. We tin benignant of spot the signs that we're going successful the close direction."
Lennon had been retired of the crippled for astir a twelvemonth and had been moving arsenic a media pundit earlier joining the Fife club.
However during his seven-match spell arsenic interim brag - successful which clip helium extracted them from a relegation combat - helium could consciousness this was a task helium could enactment with.
"They made maine truly welcome," helium added. "But that's ever the lawsuit erstwhile you're an interim manager.
"Now that the honeymoon's over, I'm excited astir the ambition that the proprietor has and I'm excited astir gathering a squad. It's thing I've ne'er had to bash before.
"I deliberation this is cleanable for me. There were different interests, if you privation to telephone it that, but aft the extremity of the season, we made up our caput that we wanted to bash this."
New proprietor Bord has immense plans for the nine and contempt maintaining a debased illustration personally was capable to person Lennon this was the champion spot to progress.
"I deliberation we had successful 1 week, astir 7 telephone calls wherever helium convinced maine to come, and I liked that," Lennon explained.
"He made maine consciousness that I was their man. And I consciousness a consciousness of loyalty to him now.
"I've got a bully narration with him. I similar the mode helium works. I similar his ideas connected the game. It's caller for maine to larn arsenic well.
"Ultimately, it's astir gathering a squad that's going to beryllium competitory successful the league. It's going to get radical done the door. That's what I privation to do. And play a truly beardown marque of football."
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