Chris Sutton has claimed that Wilfried Nancy’s means will not be working at Celtic whereas describing them as a “third-placed team” as they slumped to a fourth consecutive defeat towards Dundee United.
The consequence means the Hoops are of their worst shedding run of kind since 1978, and has led to rising strain on Nancy to get replaced regardless of solely being appointed as Brendan Rodgers’ successor simply two weeks in the past.
Regardless of having sympathy for the setting Nancy has walked into, which now contains chairman Peter Lawwell stepping down from the membership’s board attributable to “abuse and threats”, Sutton conceded that the Frenchman’s means will not be having the specified impression.
“I’ve large sympathy for him,” Sutton said. “Celtic aren’t in pre-season and if Nancy had an entire pre-season you possibly can possibly see issues panning out in a different way.
“He hasn’t acquired that. He’s saying he hasn’t acquired time, so it’s going to be extremely troublesome to get this facet going.
“Since Martin O’Neill left, the arrogance of sure gamers has dropped. The underside line with Celtic and it has been like this all season, is that it isn’t working.
“He must get his crew performing and a few perception within the fanbase. Sunday goes to be actually fascinating, the environment inside Celtic Park and the way that goes.
“Celtic have to win the league this season to get in the Champions League and that is the be all and end all.
“The distinction between Glasgow soccer and all over the place else is as soon as the fanbase activate the supervisor, that is it and I do not know if we’re too far off that. That is Nancy’s downside and that is why Sunday (at house to Aberdeen) will probably be fascinating.
“I think he should have come in and managed the situation. I don’t think he’s necessarily done that. He’s come in and said, ‘I’ll be the coach and do it my way’.
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“Well Wilf’s way, at this moment in time, isn’t working and that’s a problem.
“I think Nancy has qualities as a coach and you can see some of the rotations and his ideas… he’s come in and he’s changed things.
“He said he spoke to Martin O’Neill and spoke to him for 15 minutes. He said before the game, ‘Martin has his way, and I have mine’. Losing four games on the spin, his way isn’t working.”
‘O’Neill labored miracles – Celtic are a third-placed crew’
Followers at Tannadice Park chanted for O’Neill after Celtic had fallen behind, with Sutton saying that the interim boss had labored miracles throughout his spell whereas eviscerating the state of the present taking part in squad.
“Martin did unbelievably well. He came out himself and said there needs to be recruitment in January. He knew Celtic were getting away with it.
“He produced miracles. Let’s not make out this Celtic crew is an efficient crew. It is bang common and with key gamers lacking, January’s going to be key. This Celtic crew appear to be a third-placed crew.
“We can’t get past the fact that Celtic are so poor in certain areas and they need to improve it. The only way to do that is through recruitment and that’s not on Nancy – he inherited this squad and it hasn’t been a good squad all season.
“Martin advised you that his crew was papering over the cracks and had been struggling to win video games, however they discovered a means. It was unbelievable what he did with that group of gamers. However he wasn’t fooled by that. He knew that wasn’t the degrees.
“Nancy needed to come in and hit the ground running and he hasn’t done that. There are fans who, after three games, have lost faith with Nancy and you think, ‘is that fair after three games?'”
Nancy: ‘I do know followers are upset however Celtic heading in proper route’
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Celtic boss Wilfried Nancy says he believes the crew is on course, regardless of their shedding run extending to 4 video games with a 2-1 loss to Dundee United.
Talking post-match with Sky Sports activities, Nancy admitted he may perceive the followers’ frustrations after being booed by the travelling supporters.
Nonetheless, he insisted issues had been on course.
“I know they are upset. But we are close to winning games. At the moment, we are not able to do it.
“However the gamers are giving every little thing, we attempt to discover options for it and we’re having many conditions to attain targets.
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“Listen. Before I came here, I knew the situation. It was to see what we can do, and the plan doesn’t change.
“We’re wanting forward concerning that. After that we’ll see what we’ll do concerning the window.
“For the moment, the most important thing is go to back to having the possibility to work a little bit.
“We do not have sufficient time due to the times we have performed in a row. That is the one factor I can do for the second.
“We are on the right track, but this is not enough – I know that. We all want to win, but I’m confident because of the game we played and every time I see an improvement.”
‘That is going to take time’ – Nancy backed by Celtic CEO
Celtic CEO Michael Nicholson (C) says he’s totally behind Nancy
Celtic chief government Michael Nicholson claimed he was totally behind supervisor Wilfried Nancy, regardless of a “challenging” begin.
Since taking up on a two-and-a-half-year deal, the previous Columbus Crew boss has now misplaced all 4 matches in cost.
Nicholson insists he understands “discontent” from supporters however is totally behind the Frenchman, and revealed plans for the January and summer time switch home windows is now underneath means after a gathering this week.
Talking forward of Celtic’s defeat at Dundee United, he was requested how stable his resolve was to get behind Nancy, and advised Celtic TV: “Yeah, absolutely solid. It’s not even two weeks ago when we spoke about Wilfried and his appointment.
“There’s never an easy time to start at Celtic and it has been challenging. We’ve had some disappointing results, not least on Sunday.
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“In that respect, I understand that the Celtic support are concerned about where we are. I understand and I respect the right of every supporter to express their discontent and to share that with us.
“However we all know the place we wish to go and step-by-step, all of our job is to help Wilfried, his crew and the squad to take us the place we wish to get to.
“I met with Wilfried this week to discuss recruitment ahead of the January transfer window and also looking ahead to the summer transfer window because we know that we’ve got a project to support here. We’re excited about where we’re going to get to.
“That is going to take time, each, as I say, daily inside the coaching setting, but in addition month to month, window to window.
“We know that when we get to that stage in the summer, hopefully having had success this season, we’ll be looking ahead to next season with great optimism with Wilfried and his team.”
