{"id":223948,"date":"2026-01-02T19:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/223948\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T19:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:33:08","slug":"wilfried-nancy-celtic-boss-pleads-for-time-after-faltering-start-as-old-firm-test-awaits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/223948\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilfried Nancy: Celtic boss pleads for time after faltering start as Old Firm test awaits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As you know, I need time,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Give me time and you&#8217;re going to see what I do. You can already see what I did before because I didn&#8217;t start yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m going to be a liar if I say, &#8216;everything is happy, everything is good&#8217;. No, it&#8217;s not the case, but I knew that before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m calm during all the questions you ask me. I&#8217;m not pleased to hear people don&#8217;t like me, but they have the right to say it because in terms of results, this is not what we want.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Tomorrow is a big game. But the context is that I&#8217;ve only had 13 training sessions with my team. Usually we have four weeks of pre-season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s totally normal that you guys kill me. I&#8217;m fine with that because I know where I want to go. Judge me in a few weeks or months. If you want to judge me now, you can do it. I didn&#8217;t have the results we wanted &#8211; it&#8217;s a fact, I cannot deny that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nancy says he will &#8220;die&#8221; to achieve his goals at Celtic and believes results under him have not reflected performances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s totally normal my players need a bit of time and are confused at certain moments,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a process. I don&#8217;t like the word &#8216;process&#8217; because people think I am going to hide behind &#8216;process&#8217;, but it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Judge me, no problem, but have a look at the games since I have been here and analyse if we should have won or lost. Do it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am a clear guy. For the moment, I cannot talk because results are not good enough. I shut my mouth and I take it, but I know where we are going. After that, if it&#8217;s going to work or not, I don&#8217;t know. We are going to do everything to do it and I am here for that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Yes, I want to win every game. Yes, I want to win titles. I want to create a legacy here. I am going to die for this club, for sure.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;As you know, I need time,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Give me time and you&#8217;re going to see what I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-223948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223948","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=223948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}