The welcome news is that the Celtic CEO Michael Nicholson has stated that our new manager Wilfried Nancy will be backed in the transfer window. Let’s hope so as this Celtic squad clearly needs quality additions in January…
Celtic Unveil new manager Wilfried Nancy at Lennoxtown Training Centre on December 05, 2025. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
During the unveiling of Wilfried Nancy, Michael Nicholson claimed that the Frenchman will be backed by the club in the next transfer window, as he aims to mould his own side and philosophy over the next two and a half years.
Sorry to doubt you Michael, but…
Sorry to doubt you Michael, but why should we believe you? After all the last two transfer windows don’t exactly fill us with great optimism when we look at the list of failures and pathetic excuses – German tax laws, Brexit and so on – so why should we believe you will deliver now.
It may well be a case of third time lucky for you with no more of your self confessed mistakes and we certainly hope that you actually can deliver at the third time of asking.
January is always known as a notoriously tough window to get deals done, and with your track record in struggling to get deals over the line, many will share have my reasonable doubts that they will do anything differently in the weeks after the bells ring in to welcome 2026.
Wilfried Nancy needs backed
One thing is for certain, is that Wilfried Nancy needs backed if he is going to be successful at Celtic. It would be the same if Brendan Rodgers were still here too, the squad is in dire need of strengthening.
Celtic v Falkirk 29.10.2025 Scottish Premiership. Martin O’Neill, Shaun Maloney, Gavin Strachan and Mark Fotheringham Photo Kenny Ramsay IMAGO
Our players have done well to be in the current position they are currently in. Martin O’Neill deserves credit for the short term surge in form but he too has said that the squad needs to be strengthened. The horrendous injury list we currently have puts more stress on the remaining players and the fixture list ahead of the window opening is relentless. They’ll be running on empty soon enough.
Celtic Director Brian Wilson with CEO Michael Nicholson at Rugby Park, Kilmarnock v Celtic, 14 September 2025. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
Celtic needs quality additions in January
So we are in urgent need of new quality additions, but I’m not alone in doubting whether we get the required recruits on board to help us, no matter what Michael Nicholson said this week. I hope that he does bring in the required recruits and that they hit the ground running.
That will not only help the team but also the healing process as Celtic is currently a family at war with itself.
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