Celtic Unveil new manager Wilfried Nancy at Lennoxtown Training Centre on December 05, 2025. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
Q: What is your first impression and first assessment of the players?
Wilfried Nancy: “Quality players but they have to believe a little bit more about themselves. After that, tactical flexibility. We have players who can play in different positions – for me this is important to have players who can play in two positions minimum. For me this is really interesting. I like the diversity of the culture. It’s important to keep Scottish players, but also players from elsewhere. A good person and for me, it’s important to have desire to do well. I want my players to be confident and humble. My job is to challenge them for the benefit of the team so my first impressions watching them when I was away, I’m not too far regarding what I thought before.”
Celtic Unveil new manager Wilfried Nancy at Lennoxtown Training Centre on December 05, 2025. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
Q: Very busy schedule through December with a lot of games to play.. How quickly can you impose you ideas and your philosophy about the way you want them to play when you have so many games and so much recovery to get through over the next month or so?
Wilfried Nancy: “I’m not too worried. I’d have preferred to have a pre-season but it’s part of the job and I’m really excited about that. The idea is to prioritise so obviously when we have more time, this is easier. The idea is to prioritise and to understand the player and the person that I work with. It’s a mix of everything. They did a good job before I came, so the idea is just to add a few nuances. We’ll see.”
Celtic Unveil new manager Wilfried Nancy at Lennoxtown Training Centre on December 05, 2025. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
Q: There have been disappointments for the supporters and the team earlier in the season, with results that they have been disappointed and upset with, what’s your message to the Celtic fans now that you’re the manager and this is the start of a new beginning for them?
Wilfried Nancy: “I don’t read into the future. What happened in the past, that’s life. In life you have up and down. The only moment when it is like this (flat) is when we are dead. The only thing that I can say is that the idea is to get better every time. To be good in the process, with how we want to play, to bring clarity to the player on how we want to play, and after that – to play with passion. This club is a club with passion. We play also for the fans so it’s totally normal that if we don’t play well that they can say something, but the idea is to please them and to give them emotion.
Its a shame that responsible fan media wasn’t given access, however, elements of fan media can’t be trusted at present to conduct themselves in a responsible manner. As is frequently leveled at the board, no one is bigger than the club, which is true and also includes the certain fan groups that wrongly think they can speak for all fans.
Well said Ellbee.
So we are back to collective punishment? If any fan media outlet break the agreed rules then of course they could suffer the consequences as Celtic could say you broke this or that rule so you are banned for however long. I don’t listen to the podcasts, with the occasional except, but I do know that The Celtic Star hasn’t broken the rules. I don’t take from the message I received yesterday from the club that they are saying that we did – but obviously they feel that some outlet or outlets have and therefore they have withdrawn access to all sites. There are Celtic supporters in the North Curve who weren’t even at that Falkirk game who have found themselves banned via the first example of collective punishment.
Green hun
Big jock knows this and hes not happy.
Big Jock would have skelped the arses of everyone on this pathetic board.
Big Jock would have been equally quick to tell the kids who masquerade as fans that they should either grow up or get out of the way to make room for real fans. THATS what the Big Man meant when he said football is nothing without fans!
REAL FANS
Not wee nappy filling whiners!
But you are a fanny Joe and an embarrassment.
He would have wondered why the board of your old club that died shoved fans into a death trap. Ignoring what happened twice in the decade before.
Disgusting club that died hilariously
Not a penny