Nancy tries to shield himself from the criticism but stressed he is “a human being” with “emotions” as he prepares his side to visit Dundee United on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“The only thing that I know is I receive a lot of messages from my family to ask me if I’m OK,” he said. “So it means that maybe I get killed, but it’s OK.<\/p>\n
“Don’t forget I come from Europe, so I know the way it works and, to be fair, in the MLS it is the same – not with same intensity obviously. <\/p>\n
“The fans, the media, you don’t have results, this is normal. You might think I am crazy, but I am embracing this adversity because I know I’m getting better.<\/p>\n
“I don’t have to prove anything to anybody, simple as that. I just have to be coherent with my team and to do my job as best as I can and, after that, it will be more positive.”<\/p>\n
Some have criticised Nancy’s decision to change to his preferred 3-4-3 system from the one adopted by O’Neill during the veteran’s seven wins in eight games in charge.<\/p>\n
“It is nothing about the system,” he said. “It is not rocket science what I’m saying. <\/p>\n
“I am the coach, I have ideas and they did it before. I am just asking them to play with a few nuances, but I don’t try to invent football.”<\/p>\n
Nancy admitted “for the moment, I have nothing” to prove to fans or media that he has what it takes to change his team’s fortunes.<\/p>\n
However, he pointed out that “it is 10 days that I am here” and he knew it could be a problem considering “the fact it is the first time for everyone to have a coach coming in in the middle of the season like this” but had no regrets about taking over when he did.<\/p>\n
Nancy said his task was “to get this connection with the players” and “every day I see there is an improvement”. <\/p>\n
“I am going beyond winning,” he added. “For me, it is about character, it is about personality, it is about coherence, it is about how we want to play defensively and offensively.”<\/p>\n
Nancy saw positive signs in parts of the defeats by Heart of Midlothian, Roma and St Mirren and is “really confident” that Celtic would find more consistency soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nancy tries to shield himself from the criticism but stressed he is “a human being” with “emotions” as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-186940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}