Callum McGregor and new Celtic manager Wilfried Nancy during the Scottish Premiership match between Celtic and Hearts at Celtic Park on December 07, 2025 . (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
CALMAC – 6/10 – For a while, the addition of extra midfield legs suited the skipper. He dominated the ball, had time to govern his territory and it did look a distinct probability he’d find the key at any time to open them up, and close their hopes. Alas, any great captain still needs his men around him performing to the best of their ability.
Celtic v Hearts – Scottish Premiership at Celtic Park on 07 December 2025 Benjamin Nygren and Hearts defender Harry Milne battle in the middle of the park IMAGO Photo James Christie
NEGAN – 3/10 – Why? He’s been a useful impact sub, but starting in this position has cost us already this season. 4th-best swede, MON said; I presume he was talking about turnips. If Negan had the quality, we’d have won – twice in succession he blipped a killer final ball, then came the fatal moment right after he’d been walking off the
park, only to be reprieved and lose his man at a corner who headed their second goal.
HAKUNA HATATE – 5/10 – A confused Reo, seeing Negan trotting around in his favoured spaces. The effect was for Reo to drop deeper, become less potent, relieve pressure on Hearts’ backline and mean we lacked the penetration his drifting guile between lines can provide. Cracked the bar when he should have burst the net.
Celtic v Heart of Midlothian – Scottish Premiership at Celtic Park in Glasgow, Scotland on 07 December 2025 Hearts midfielder Oisin McEntee next to Arne Engels of Celtic. IMAGO photo James Christie
THE TERMINATOR – 4/10 – Where’s the confidence drained to? Bhoy was looking more gallus with every outing under MON but after an hour today his influence faded and his presence all but evaporated for a while when it was most required to get them under the knuckle. Did resurface later to miss a sitter, but the inconsistency which has marked his Celtic career was back to haunt him.
Frankly, I thought your marks were
generous, to put it mildly. Trusty was good, yes, but totally exposed. Game should have been over in twenty minutes but, again, the finishing was dire. Feels like back to square one. And as for that child’s toy, the manager had, is that a joke?
You could see that Wilfried ‘s previous experience was with an under-14 Girl’s team ; so yesterday’s display by Celtic should have given him glorious bouts of ,” Deja- vue” where he could hark-back to days gone-by :-
Second-best in almost every challenge , Hearts won almost every second ball , no running off the ball , players like:- Hetate , Negran and Engels having no stomach for the conditions . Players pulling-out of the challenge making Devlin of Hearts look like a “World-class player” . Yes, Wilfried you were back to watching your under-14 girls .
I hope that I am wrong but I can’t help but think that the chant by Christmas may be , ” Nancy , Nancy get to F*** ” and take your toy Tactics-board with you . Again , I hope I am wrong and yesterday’s conditions were more suited to ” Hammer-throwers ” than football players . Let’s hope on Thursday he puts men on the field rather than 14 year -old girls .