{"id":263834,"date":"2025-11-15T06:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T06:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263834\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T06:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T06:36:11","slug":"celtic-star-reacts-to-potential-wilfried-nancy-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263834\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic star reacts to potential Wilfried Nancy appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Frenchman has emerged as the club&#8217;s first choice to replace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celticway.co.uk\/news\/24286718.brendan-rodgers-news-interviews-updates-manager\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brendan Rodgers<\/a> in the dugout.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Nancy is currently the manager of MLS outfit Columbus Crew and has led the side to the MLS Cup and Leagues Cup.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;A couple of the Crew guys have mentioned it in the USA camp,&#8221; said Trusty, who is currently away on international duty.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We haven\u2019t talked too much in depth but I know he\u2019s a good coach and has had a lot of success.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;They were asking if I\u2019d seen it and I was asking what their thoughts are.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Read more:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;That sort of stuff has nothing to do with me, with regards to who the gaffer is going to be.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;If Martin stays, that would be awesome, but I have no control over whoever comes in.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It is understood that Celtic&#8217;s head of football operations, Paul Tisdale, recommended Nancy to the club.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Martin O&#8217;Neill is currently in interim charge at Parkhead.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I am not party to anything that is happening with the board talking to prospective clients and things like this, nor do I want to be because that has never been a remit of mine,&#8221; the Northern Irishman told BBC Belfast on Friday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;My job was to come in and hold the fort and the minute that someone is appointed I will step aside.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;And if that was tomorrow I would gladly step aside. It\u2019s not a problem. It\u2019s nothing to do with ego or anything like that. It\u2019s just to help out in the very very short term.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Frenchman has emerged as the club&#8217;s first choice to replace Brendan Rodgers in the dugout. Nancy is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-263834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}