Celtic, champions in 13 of the past 14 seasons, sit second in the Scottish Premiership, six points behind Hearts and ahead of Rangers on goals scored.<\/p>\n
Their points total of 38 from 20 games is 15 down from the same stage of the previous campaign.<\/p>\n
Under Nancy, Celtic shipped 18 goals, one more than they had conceded during the opening 24 games of the season.<\/p>\n
“Nancy was fixated on changing Celtic’s style, going to 3-4-3, playing in one particular way,” the club’s former striker Chris Sutton told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n
“He just wasn’t adaptable. For Celtic to lose six out of eight games and ship as many goals as they did, it was kamikaze stuff.”<\/p>\n
O’Neill, who managed the club from 2000-05, had been placed in temporary charge after Brendan Rodgers, who was appointed manager of Saudi Pro League side Al-Qadsiah last month, resigned in October.<\/p>\n
Having previously managed rivals Montreal, Nancy led Columbus to the MLS Cup in 2023 and then the Leagues Cup – a competition between Mexican and American sides, as they finished second in the league.<\/p>\n
However, after being named MLS manager of the year for 2024, his side slipped to seventh in Eastern Conference and 12th overall last year.<\/p>\n
As he leaves Celtic, Nancy has enjoyed just five wins in his latest 20 games as a coach.<\/p>\n
Serving from June 1999 to February 2000, John Barnes had previously been Celtic’s shortest serving permanent manager, overseeing 29 matches in his eight months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtic, champions in 13 of the past 14 seasons, sit second in the Scottish Premiership, six points behind…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-353774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353774","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=353774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}