\n The 48-year-old, who has spent the past four seasons with Montreal and Columbus Crew in the MLS, was a surprise choice to take over at the Scottish champions and many fans and pundits are highly sceptical that he will be able to justify his appointment.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n However, the MLS Coach of the Year is in no doubt about why majority Celtic shareholder Dermot Desmond, chief executive Michael Nicholson and head of football operations Paul Tidsdale were so keen to get him on board.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe style of play, first of all,\u201d said Nancy. \u201cAnd the way I manage as a leader. You know the style of play of Celtic.\u00a0So, with the way I see football, I think we can fit together.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cFor me, this is about being proactive, about trying to put that on the opposition, trying to attack the ball as soon as possible. And after that to be disgusting to play against when we defend. Because you’re going to have moments when you’re going to suffer. So the idea is to be good also defensively.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAfter that, it was also important to know what type of person I am because the club is different.\u00a0So it was about knowing if I can be the coach and also if I can be the leader they are looking for.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI had to ask myself the right question to see if this is the club that I want to be.\u00a0After that, it’s been about discussion, discussion, discussion.\u00a0We ended up finding a good connection to work together.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAgain, I try to prioritise everything,\u00a0I’m not here to change everything.\u00a0I just try to add certain things to be able to see what we need to do for the future. And after that, it’s about time and we’ll see.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n He continued, \u201cIt’s really important for me to work with people who know the culture\u00a0and especially who know the clubs.\u00a0So this is what I decided to do.\u00a0So Stevie Woods, the goalkeeper coach,\u00a0stays with us and also Gavin Strachan stays with us. So this is really important for me.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWhen I discussed this with them, I felt the desire to work together,\u00a0but also the desire to adjust to the way I see football and the way I manage.\u00a0But I’m not here to change everything, I’m here to add certain things.\u00a0The link with my staff, the mix,\u00a0is really important if we are to be able to do good things.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 48-year-old, who has spent the past four seasons with Montreal and Columbus Crew in the MLS, was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-330808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}