No manager has ever had as negative an impact on a football club as Wilfried Nancy at Celtic.
Martin O’Neill handed over a seven match domestic winning run. A cup final place and a morale boosting win over Feyenoord.
The win in Rotterdam was on November 27.
By December 30 the same squad of players were being schooled by Motherwell. Given the runaround as the Lanarkshire side beat Celtic for the first time in a decade. Just as Dundee United had two weeks ago. Nancy is a hero to St Mirren fans.
Ange Postecoglou and Brendan Rodgers put a winning front on a club that is a shambles in every area.
CELTIC DECLINE ISN’T BEING MANAGED
Celtic’s UEFA co-efficient tells you everything you need to know. They are 58th.
Last season Rodgers worked a minor miracle. Celtic took 12 points from their Champions League campaign. Over eight matches they finished above Manchester City and Club Brugge.
The entire year of 2025 has been utterly horrific. A total of 17 defeats, 15 more than during 2024.
Nancy is an unmitigated disaster. The top of a perfect storm. From a chain of command that leads to Paul Tisdale and Michael Nicholson.
Straight after the League Cup Final defeat to St Mirren this site called for Nancy, Tisdale and Nicholson to be sacked there and then. In the four disasters since they have only added more evidence to the cases for dismissal.
For whatever reasons it seems that Dermot Desmond is content to let things go downhill. They’ll be pointing and laughing at him in the 19th hole but it seems that Desmond just doesn’t care.
WHAT THE CELTIC PLAYERS CAN DO?
Generally, as long as they get paid on time players don’t really care too much about what is happening around them.
They are passengers, passing through clubs, often going through the motions then onto the next stop in their career.
The situation at Celtic may be a bit different. Callum McGregor, Kieran Tierney, Tony Ralston and James Forrest care. Others have World Cup places to aim for- and a better escape out of Celtic in the summer.
It seems clear that McGregor isn’t happy with the turn of events. His post match interview at Livingston resembled that of a hostage.
There are two courses of actions that players can take.
- Firstly they can put in official transfer requests. Let Nicholson and his cronies know that they won’t be carrying the can for a shambles of a club.
- Secondly they can refuse media duties.
Neither course of action will directly affect Nancy but it would get the message across loud and clear. Even to the tone deaf in the Celtic boardroom, maybe even reaching a golf course on a far distant land.
Luke McCowan, Auston Trusty, Johnny Kenny and Paulo Bernardo have looked very uncomfortable in front of the cameras since Nancy arrived.
Reo Hatate and Daizen Maeda don’t do media duties. Why should McGregor, Tierney or McCowan be forced to answer questions defending a dud manager and a club that is a shambles?
What will Celtic do? Fine them and take it to PFA Scotland and the SFA?
Transfer list them? Make the team even worse to defend a failure in the dug out.
Drastic times call for drastic measures. Celtic are in a drastic state.
Only serious action will bring about change, it looks like that will have to come from the dressing room rather than the Club House that Desmond finds himself in this morning.
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4 Comments
by Aidy
I personally think the board are doing this to spite the fans because the green brigade are speaking out and telling the truth about the board the board dont care about celtic all they care about is the crown in there pocket
by Bon Harrower
I think there is funny business going on in the SPL. Both Rangers and Celtic have been given dud managers. Why let O’Neill go, when Celtic were on the run of their lives. I personally believe that the SPL are orchestrating this shambles with the Old Firm, because they don’t want Celtic or Rangers winning the league all the time. They want to make the SPL exciting, so are behind the downfall of the old Firm. Make a third team win this time, i.e Hearts.
If that is not the case, explain why Nancy would be hired? The man is a dud. He has no experience. His last season with Columbus Crew turned disaster. At least with Postecoglou, he had won trophies.
Celtic are shambolic under Nancy. They are not even a shadow of the team under O’Neill.
The players don’t perform under Nancy. The SFA should be stepping in and saying “We have a world cup to prepare for, get a good manager in to train these boys and get them in shape.
If a dynamic is wrong, change it!! Don’t keep implementing it.
by Ian
Cmon beating ten man Aberdeen (just by luck) then beating bottom of league Livingston again just is totally unacceptable as a Celtic team these players are being made to look like amateurs for what the board to save face ,, Callum McGregor should ask for a transfer to Saudi with Rodgers before he is made to look bad , Nancy forgets this is not mls football and teams will just pick you off at will as been proven to many times this past 5 weeks or so , eyes closed for the rangers game I think ,, fear will play a massive part in that game ,,, sack him today for the sake of the club
by John Mason
It is time for Celtic supporters to make there feelings known by staying away from games and force changes at the top Celtic need new ownership it’s the only answer !