Celtic are close to appointing Wilfried Nancy as the club’s new manager, according to reports.<\/p>\n
The 48-year-old Frenchman has been head coach of Major League Soccer side Columbus Crew since December 2022.<\/p>\n
He began his managerial career with CF Montreal in March 2021 following the departure of Thierry Henry.<\/p>\n
Celtic have been searching for a new permanent manager since Brendan Rodgers resigned last month.<\/p>\n
Former manager Martin O\u2019Neill, assisted by Shaun Maloney, has overseen the Scottish champions\u2019 last five matches in an interim capacity.<\/p>\n
Celtic, who visit Feyenoord in the Europa League on Thursday, have won three successive league games under O\u2019Neill and defeated Rangers in the semi-finals of the Premier Sports Cup.<\/p>\n
But the Hoops were beaten 3-1 away to Danish club FC Midtjylland in their previous European fixture, on 6 November.<\/p>\n
Celtic sit second in the William Hill Premiership table, four points behind leaders Hearts, albeit with a game in hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtic are close to appointing Wilfried Nancy as the club’s new manager, according to reports. The 48-year-old Frenchman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-157679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}