You sense the end is nearing for Wilfried Nancy at Celtic.
Everything that has gone wrong for Celtic’s new coach is going wrong, as he aims to avoid losing his first five games in charge on Sunday.
Go back to Celtic’s defeat to Hearts a fortnight ago, and supporters were defending Nancy, despite defeat, because of the way he was being treated by the media.
One of the things Nancy was being mocked for was giving out instructions to Callum McGregor during the game on the touchline, and now Simon Jordan has questioned the relationship between the two.
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Does Wilfried Nancy have the belief of the Celtic players?
Wilfried Nancy and Callum McGregor’s relationship
McGregor is the heartbeat of Celtic, and during the club’s difficult times, he has stepped up again and again.
But speaking on talkSPORT, Jordan suggested that the Celtic players, as well as McGregor, aren’t with Nancy, given the downfall of results and performances in such a short space of time.
“The context that you are looking at is that you have lost four games,” said Jordan. “You have walked through the door, and you have had a nightmare start.
“You have changed things around, and I don’t think the players are with you. You wonder which one of the players are with him. You wonder whether his captain is with him. You wonder what’s going on inside that dressing room to respond to the fact that you have won seven games out of eight (under O’Neill), and go ‘bang off a cliff.’ You go off a cliff.
“Now, come on? That’s something that has changed in the environment. Nobody is disputing that Celtic could be better.”
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Celtic ‘hadn’t made their mind up’ on Nancy during Martin O’Neill’s reign
The morning after Celtic’s League Cup final defeat to St Mirren, Jordan was in the talkSPORT studios alongside Martin O’Neill.
The former Crystal Palace owner has now stated that Celtic’s appointment of Nancy wasn’t always set in stone, and there was ‘still an opportunity’ for O’Neill to get the gig long-term.
“You can,” responded Jordan, if Celtic can already sack Nancy. “But there must have been a reason why you employed him.
“I would have kept Martin for the season. Or maybe even longer if Martin was up to the job, and felt like he had the energy, the vitality and the wherewithal to do some time. There was always going to be a long-term picture.
“My understanding of it was that this wasn’t done. It wasn’t a done deal. Martin just wasn’t an ‘interim manager.’ He was in there to hold the fort, and they hadn’t made their mind up, so there was still an opportunity for them to enlighten upon Martin.
“So, they must have really believed. Really believed that Wilfried Nancy was the man to go to.”
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