WILFRIED NANCY CELTIC EXIT TALKS “HAPPENING NOW”
- BY LIAM CARRIGAN
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Multiple sources today allege that Celtic have entered discussions today to end the disastrous 2-week tenure of Wilfried Nancy. By the time you read this, the Frenchman may already have already been “emptied” as it were.
Last night’s loss to Dundee United, as I said previously, means there really is no way back. We are now looking at possibly the worst run of form in Celtic’s modern history, and the worst managerial record in more than fifty years.
The Wilfried Nancy Celtic exit talks mean his revolution is set to end before it ever begun.
Unlike some, I am not happy about this. I take no pleasure in watching someone who is, by most accounts a good man, losing his job and facing humiliation.
In truth, he should probably never have been hired in the first place.
Nancy will be the fall guy here, but ultimately this is the latest in a long line of board room failures. I know it, you know it, and they know it.
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Speculation will naturally turn to who is the next manager in the door, but honestly, it’s nowhere near a priority as far as I am concerned right now.
This will be framed as a managerial disaster. Lots of disparaging articles will be written in the tabloid press over the next few days about Wilfried Nancy, about his character, his tactic boards, every other cheap shot the hacks can muster.
As usual though, the gutter press are taking the easy target, like the ambulance-chasing ghouls that they are. Nancy is the fall guy, and Peter Lawwell’s imminent departure is also a distraction.
The ones that need to take the full brunt of the blame here, are Paul Tisdale, Michael Nicholson and Chris McKay.
Now, as much as I don’t like Dermot Desmond, from what I understand, he actually, for once, had minimal input into this particular hiring choice. The leading voice advocating for Wilfried Nancy at Celtic was, allegedly, Paul Tisdale. If that’s true, he needs to go. This is a gross failing of the recruitment process.
It’s also widely known that Tisdale was the driving force behind the recruitment of players like Shin Yamada and Hayato Inamura. Two players who now have the dubious honor of being branded not good enough by three different Celtic managers in a single season.
Ultimately though, contracts, and therefore the final say in recruitment are negotiated and signed off by the CEO and the CFO. Michael Nicholson took great pride in crediting himself with the appointment of Wilfried Nancy during the softball interview he did with Celtic TV on the day Celtic’s soon to be departed manager arrived. He insisted multiple times that Nancy was the first choice candidate from the beginning.
He was happy to take the credit then, when he thought Nancy would be a success. So, it’s only fair that he carries the can now that it’s all blown up in his face.
Most of all though, I do not want Tisdale, Nicholson and McKay to be the ones trying to do deals for players in January.
If sources are to be believed today, their 2-week experiment with Wilfried Nancy will cost the club seven figures. This is on top of whatever they initially paid Nancy and his backroom team to get them to join Celtic in the first place.
That’s a sackable offence in any other corporate environment. People who cost their company millions of pounds and leave them in a demonstrably worse state than they were in the course of just a fortnight do not survive in their jobs.
This is no longer just a football matter. This is corporate negligence on an unprecedented scale at Celtic.