Q: Are you confident that you can turn all this around?
Wilfried Nancy: “Yes, I’m confident because, again, I had to make choices tonight regarding the team that I made. Also, we have a few players away regarding the situation. So, again, I’m confident with where we want to go. The reality is, for the moment, this is for this game. This was a tough game. It was difficult for us in this game. But I think that we’re going to get better.”
Wilfried Nancy. Motherwell v Celtic, Scottish Premiership. 30 December 2025 Photo by Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
Q: The game this weekend against (the)Rangers, do you feel this could be defining for your future?
Wilfried Nancy: “No, not at all. Each game for me is important, and for the team is important. I don’t think about my future. I think about what I do now and what I need to do to improve the team and what we need to do also to improve the team. This is the way I think.
Q: Do you understand why supporters would be concerned? Some good things in the first half at Livingston, and tonight so few positives. They’re not seeing progress?
Wilfried Nancy: “Progress, there is progress. But tonight, again, where we are, and the opposition that we faced was difficult. This is the reality. I’m not accepting that, I’m not saying I accept that. I’m saying that this is a fact. Now, what we need to do to improve that, this is something that we’re going to work on, and we’ve been working on since the beginning.”
Wilfried Nancy. Motherwell v Celtic, Scottish Premiership. 30 December 2025 Photo by Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
Q: Are you confident Paul Tisdale and the recruitment team can get you the players you need to rebuild the squad?
Wilfried Nancy: “Yes, we are working on that. This is the idea.”
Q: Wilfried, you said you thought this was a tough game but the Celtic fans look at this as Celtic against Motherwell. Motherwell have a tiny budget compared to Celtic. So is that your stance on things, that this was always going to be a tough game for Celtic? They don’t expect it to be a tough game. Can you understand that?
Wilfried Nancy: “Yes, I understand that. But for me, there is a context, there is a fact. This is the reality. I’m not saying that I’m an underdog. I told you that before. When we play a game, we want to win the game. But the reality at this moment is, for this game, we didn’t have a good game. After that, we can talk about the budget. Yes, I know where I am. I know the club that I work with. I know that perfectly. I can understand the concern. But at this moment, this is the reality.”
Wilfried Nancy. Motherwell v Celtic, Scottish Premiership. 30 December 2025 Photo by Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
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Instead of Desmond criticising the fans he should now realise that he should go through the Board like a dose of salts and ream out all the ” Self-important” clowns who are master-minding THE DECLINE of our great club . The decline co-incides with the appointment of Paul Tisdale ( October 2024) and he should be the first to go , taking the clowns who appointed him as he goes . He is the villain who apparently recommended ” Nancy” a prior under 14 year old “Girls” coach ?
I predicted after Nancy’s first game in charge ( on this forum ) that the chant by Christmas would be , ” Nancy , Nancy get to F**K ” and I wasn’t far wrong . The manager’s days are gone along with his , “Russell Martin” insane excuses —–He’s a dud !!!!!!
It’s now damage limitation with Nancy. How much more pain will he be allowed to inflict before whoever is making the decisions at Celtic decides it is time? The answer to that question is…..a lot more. The future of certain individuals in power at the club is inextricably linked to that of Nancy. Get rid of him now and that would be an admission of failure on their part. So he will remain in post, play the same tactics and get the same results until….. I honestly don’t know. Maybe Auchinleck Talbot will make the decision for them.
Celtic play the way he talks, fuckin rubbish, go now for fuck sake.
A so called footballing doctor, with the only capabilities of making ourselves vomit. Is also given a title of head of football operations?
Tisdale has to go immediately.
Nancy is totally out of his depth also. Yet no manager is going to survive with such a couldn’t care less attitude, within our playing squad at present imo?
16 players used last night, and just how many could any manager work with, in trying to form a core group within our squad?
Nancy is only making things worse with his own ridiculous decision making, and will become the fall guy, sooner rather than later imo?
So even considering Tisdale and Nancy to be allowed to make the footballing decisions required in January? Would be no more than an act of footballing suicide for ourselves, that may take years to recover from imo?
This existing war between board and support, can only see ourselves suffering moreso imo?
Been looking for change since the summer, now we have got it, in a very unsavoury and unsatisfactory manner, that isn’t going to be fixed overnight either imo?
With such a desperate wimp of a performance on show. Can only conclude that that the number of players wanting out of the club, is far larger than those wanting to stay imo?
This is becoming a salvage situation, at only the half way stage of this season. And it never happened overnight either, as has been the case for the best part of this calendar year also.
Way too many culprits available, to pinpoint who actually is totally responsible for ripping the heart out of our club?
Yet no signs of everyone accountable, showing no signs of taking responsibility for there actions, which is evident within our own changing room at present imo?
Very hard to support such a toxic shitshow in operation, and feel it’s still going to become worse, than seeing any signs of improvement, for this season at least imo?