The healing can only come from the Celtic Board
Green Brigade and The Celtic Board . Dundee Utd v Celtic, Scottish Premiership. Tannadice, 17 December 2025. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
The healing can only come from the Board. Whilst we await the review of operations, what about the here and now? We all know how this ends, it’s only the timing that is in doubt. Sorry Wilfried but you are French toast. Whoever recommended you for the post or put your name in the ring also needs to be punted, now. Serious questions have to be asked asked about those who decided on your appointment and whoever is calling the shots on football matters at the club.
I only picked up on Liam Scales recent comments about the manager being wedded to his system in the run up to last night’s game. So we know he is not going to change, whatever the opposition, whatever the outcomes.
He admitted after the Roma game that the players were questioning him. Despite that, we then go into the cup final with the same system and concede two second half goals to St Mirren in quick succession. Onto Tannadice with the same system and we concede two second half goals in three minutes.
Yes Wilfried, that’s all it takes to lose a game when you cannot defend and the players’ confidence is shot. In any case, it wasn’t three minutes. It was obvious from the start of the second half that we were under pressure so why wait until we go behind to make the changes.
Wilfried Nancy, Dundee Utd v Celtic, Scottish Premiership. Tannadice, 17 December 2025. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
There was a classic post on Talk Celtic last night by Foxy Bhoy just after the Celtic team was announced….
“Genius tactical move by Nancy. Nobody is able to guess how we’ll line up and play Of course it doesn’t help that neither do the Celtic players.”
Nailed it!
I don’t normally read articles on the BBC website given their partiality on Scottish football but I wasn’t myself this morning and read one by Tom English. To be fair it was well written and well balanced……perhaps there is a silver lining to that cloud named Trump? Amongst other things he wrote….
Wilfried Nancy, Dundee Utd v Celtic, Scottish Premiership. Tannadice, 17 December 2025. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
“The defeats by United, St Mirren, Roma and Hearts now joined the ones that went before in America – Cincinnati (twice), Chicago Fire, New York City and New England Revolution.”
“Nancy finished seventh in the regular season in MLS, won 14 of 34 games, ranking joint sixth in the league for goals scored and eighth for goals conceded. After being manager of the season the year before, it was all very blah.
His credentials for the Celtic job were, at best, thin, despite the excited rhetoric of some observers in America, who painted him as a special one and his capture as a coup.”
Wilfried Nancy speaks to Callum McGregor, Dundee Utd v Celtic, Scottish Premiership. Tannadice, 17 December 2025. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
I am truly shocked by those figures and it raises questions about what due diligence was undertaken by the coterie of financial men and their advisors that were entrusted to appoint our new manager. How could he be your first choice from the start given his track record? In what way was he head and shoulders above the other candidates? I am beginning to think that it was a coronation rather than a selection process.
How much is Nancy’s contract worth? Brendan Rodgers was on around £2.5m as he was operating at the elite manager level, yet various reports suggest that our current manager is on a much more modest figure – in comparison to Rodgers – around £300k. So he’s effectively a punt. Getting someone in on the cheap and dressing the appointment up as something similar to Ange Postecoglou.
In another hostage to fortune, the CEO said yesterday that Nancy is to be backed in the transfer window. That would just compound the felony. I wouldn’t trust those in power at the club to make any more signings….not a penny more! Their recent track record is abysmal.
Whoever is running Celtic needs to take the advice of Stan Collymore and be “ruthless” now. Should this drag onto January/February or, heaven help us, beyond, the fractures will only deepen and the repercussions for those in power will be significantly greater.
Wilfried Nancy, Dundee Utd v Celtic, Scottish Premiership. Tannadice, 17 December 2025. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
If the Board won’t listen to the fans then listen to the players who are questioning the tactics, listen to the opposition players who are saying we are too easy to play against, listen to the celebrity fans who are raging at what is going on at the moment or listen to the Celtic minded pundits who can’t believe how we are playing.
Time for a reset on the coaching side, on the footballing operations and on the running of the club.
Christopher Wotherspoon
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