{"id":279100,"date":"2025-11-12T22:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/279100\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T22:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:39:09","slug":"bewildered-alan-brazil-asks-celtic-who-are-these-people-as-nancy-and-knutsen-dismissed-in-favour-of-his-own-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/279100\/","title":{"rendered":"Bewildered Alan Brazil asks Celtic ‘who are these people’ as Nancy and Knutsen dismissed in favour of his own plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The TALKSport host is in danger of repeating his Ange Postecoglou gaffe but wants Celtic to look much closer to home for next boss<\/p>\n

15:11, 12 Nov 2025Updated 19:56, 12 Nov 2025<\/p>\n

\"AlanAlan Brazil(Image: talkSPORT)<\/p>\n

Alan Brazil is less than impressed with the profile of the Celtic<\/a> manager frontrunners and has urged the Hoops to hatch a plan to appoint Steve Clarke next summer.<\/p>\n

Columbus Crew boss Wilfried Nancy is the bookies’ favourite, with one even suspending betting on the Frenchman<\/a>. It’s thought he has admirers within Parkhead and is high on the club’s shortlist.<\/p>\n

Norwegian Kjetil Knutsen has caught the eye of clubs across Europe after sustained success with Bodo\/Glimt on a fraction of most’s budget. He’s been linked with big jobs before and even turned down Ajax, but is approaching the end of his current contract and likely to depart.<\/p>\n

However, Celtic fan and TalkSPORT host Brazil has been left nonplussed at the names in the frame, claiming he knows next to nothing about the pair.<\/p>\n

\u201cTalkSPORT understands Columbus Crew boss Wilfried Nancy \u2013 no, I don\u2019t know this guy, do you Ally?” He asked co-host Ally McCoist.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s emerged as the leading contender to become Celtic\u2019s new manager.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Scottish champions are also considering Bodo\/Glimt\u2019s Kjetil Knutsen \u2013 so who are these people?<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know \u2013 is he another Ange? Could history be about to repeat itself?\u201d<\/p>\n

Head coach Wilfried Nancy of the Columbus Crew(Image: Maddie Meyer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Brazil was then pulled up for his previous comments about Ange Postecoglou around the time the Australian was appointed.<\/p>\n

A clip played Brazil from 2021 saying: \u201cCeltic have applied for exemption with Uefa for Yokohama Marinos boss \u2013 what is it, Postecooglou? – to manage in Europe.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe does not hold the required licence \u2013 this has got to be a wind-up. Oh, he\u2019d be a great manager. Where do they find these guys from?\u201d<\/p>\n

But Brazil said: \u201cI can hold my hands up its not a problem and maybe Nancy can do it as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know who the other two are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead, Brazil wants Martin O’Neill to remain in the hotseat until the end of the season.<\/p>\n

And then for Celtic to go and get Steve Clarke.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Scotland boss’ contract is up either after the World Cup if Scotland make it, or before if they crash out in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Wins over Greece and Denmark in the upcoming final two qualifiers would see the Scots back at a World Cup Finals for the first time in 28 years.<\/p>\n

Either way, his next stop should be Celtic Park as far as Brazil is concerned.<\/p>\n

He added: There\u2019s one for you, Celtic. Let Martin keep it until the end of the season, then after the big tournament, Stevie Clarke, Celtic.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCoist concurred: \u201cThat wouldn\u2019t be daft. That wouldn\u2019t be daft.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The TALKSport host is in danger of repeating his Ange Postecoglou gaffe but wants Celtic to look much…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[127255,127256,49,48,13881,92565,127257,9328,561,82,127254,126850,13010,127258],"class_list":["post-279100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-alan-brazil","tag-ally-mccoist","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celtic-fc","tag-martin-oneill","tag-scotland-football-team","tag-scottish-premiership","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-steve-clarke","tag-wilfried-nancy","tag-world-cup-2026","tag-world-cup-qualifiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}