Wilfried Nancy: Celtic boss retains backing from board regardless of dropping first 4 video games in cost

Celtic boss Wilfried Nancy has the complete backing of the board, regardless of dropping his opening 4 matches.

Stress is mounting on the brand new supervisor after dropping to Hearts, Roma, St Mirren and Dundee United in his first 15 days within the job – their worst run since 1978.

Nancy has had a routine chat with the membership hierarchy to debate the plans going ahead, recruitment, in addition to wider matters of adapting to life in Scotland and safety.

Nancy took coaching at Lennoxtown as regular, because the Hoops put together to face Aberdeen at Celtic Park on Sunday.

Sky Sports activities Information understands the membership chiefs are on board with Nancy’s imaginative and prescient for Celtic and have been absolutely supportive of his want to alter the system instantly.

It’s believed they really feel they’re getting a greater concept of which present squad members can match into the brand new system, to concentrate on which areas will want recruitment within the January and summer time switch home windows.

This was reiterated yesterday when CEO Michael Nicholson advised Celtic TV he had held talks with Nancy concerning recruitment for the subsequent two switch home windows.

Throughout final night time’s 2-1 defeat to Dundee United at Tannadice, a big part of Celtic followers chanted for Nancy to go. There have been additionally chants of “Martin O’Neill” – who took interim cost of the membership after Brendan Rodgers’ shock departure – successful seven of his eight video games.

Nancy, 48, was appointed from Columbus Crew – on the advice of Celtic’s head of soccer operations Paul Tisdale.

Tisdale is presently on vacation, however is known to be in shut contact with membership employees and dealing in direction of the January switch window.

Sutton: ‘Nancy’s approach is not working’

Talking after Wednesday’s defeat, former Celtic striker Chris Sutton admitted he had sympathy for the place Nancy discovered himself in, however conceded that his approach wasn’t working since taking the reigns from Martin O’Neill.

“I have massive sympathy for him,” Sutton mentioned. “Celtic aren’t in pre-season and if Nancy had a whole pre-season you can maybe see things panning out differently.

“He hasn’t received that. He is saying he hasn’t received time, so it’ll be extremely troublesome to get this aspect going.

“Since Martin O’Neill left, the confidence of certain players has dropped. The bottom line with Celtic and it has been like this all season, is that it isn’t working.

“He must get his staff performing and a few perception within the fanbase. Sunday goes to be actually fascinating, the ambiance 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 drawback and that is why Sunday (at residence to Aberdeen) will likely 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’.

“Effectively Wilf’s approach, at this second in time, is not working and that is an issue.

“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 mentioned he spoke to Martin O’Neill and spoke to him for quarter-hour. He mentioned earlier than the sport, ‘Martin has his approach, and I’ve mine’. Dropping 4 video games on the spin, his approach is not working.”

‘What you should focus on’ – The Venn diagram that caused a storm

Forward of the sport at Tannadice Park, Nancy appeared to replace his profile image on X of a Venn diagram with the captions “Things you can control”, “Things that matter.” There was then an arrow pointing to the center of the diagram that was labelled “What you should focus on.”

With out context, the picture gave the impression to be a delicate response to the noise concerning his future at Celtic Park simply two weeks into the job, the place some sections of the fanbase have already referred to as for his departure.

When followers noticed the profile change, it shortly went viral and the account ultimately was turned personal.

Nancy later claimed that the image in query was not associated to Celtic and linked again to his time at Columbus Crew.

“My wife was not happy and to be honest, believe me or not, the profile was about Columbus,” he advised BBC Sport.

“So my X picture was about Columbus, me being in the locker room of Columbus. So I just wanted to change what I have on my WhatsApp.

“Easy as that. So it was not a mistake or one thing. I do not wish to create a battle as simple as that.

“I did it because my picture was looking upstairs in the locker room of Columbus so I just wanted to change what I have on my WhatsApp. Simple as that.”

Dundee United’s mocking response to Nancy put up

Had Wednesday night time completed with a victory, maybe this might be a flash-in-the-pan story. Nonetheless, United’s outstanding second-half comeback did nothing to assist issues. And nor did their full-time celebrations.

After the ultimate whistle, the membership’s official X account posted a picture captioned “focusing on a huge three points,” making reference to the statements in Nancy’s add.

To make issues worse, the put up additionally mocked the Venn diagram by making a parody one which included the scoreline.

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