Celtic manager Wilfried Nancy reacts during the Premier League match between Celtic and Aberdeen at Celtic Park on December 21, 2025. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
Q: In terms of adding to your squad in January, how close are you to bringing new players in?
Wilfried Nancy: “Like I said before, my job is to analyse my players first, and after that we see what we’re going to do. But I know that we can add players, like every club.”
Q: You mentioned the chances being missed. There’s a higher proportion of good chances being missed. Is that down to confidence in front of goal, or is it down to personnel?
Wilfried Nancy: “It could be both. I know that it’s not easy to score goals. That’s why the chances that we created, I am happy with that, but obviously, we have to score more goals. After that it could be confidence, it could be tactics, it could be technique, it could be emotion. These are all the kinds of things that we have to analyse to help the players to score goals.”
21.12.2025 Celtic v Aberdeen, Scottish Premiership. Kieran Tierney celebrates his goal. Photo Kenny Ramsay IMAGO
Q: I’m not talking about players here per se, but in your previous role at Columbus, you had a real focal point up front, Hernandez. In your title season he scored 25 or 26 goals. How important is it to have a striker who is top level, who is reliable, cutting edge? How important is that to a team?
Wilfried Nancy: “I think that if you ask the question to all coaches, they’re going to say the striker is important. Obviously, yes, we are all the same as a coach. But at the same time, what I like with my team and with all the teams that I coach, and for the moment it’s not so bad, we can score from any position. This is what has happened since I’m here. Now, yes, you mentioned Cucho Hernandez. He did score many goals, but we scored many goals with other players. For me, this is important. Obviously, like I said, as a coach, yes, we want all the positions in our team. But again, we’re going to work on that and we’ll see.”
Johnny Kenny misses. Dundee Utd v Celtic, Scottish Premiership. Tannadice, 17 December 2025. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
21.12.2025 Celtic v Aberdeen, Scottish Premiership Dimitar Mitov denies Johnny Kenny a goal. Photo Kenny Ramsay. IMAGO
Q: It seems obvious to say, because you are light in that area. Obviously, you have Johnny Kenny, Kelechi Iheanacho is injured. I would imagine a striker is top of the shopping list for January.
Wilfried Nancy: “Yes, but like I said, if you watch the game, we missed so many opportunities and it was not the forward. So again, as I said, we’ll see what we’re going to do with that.”
