Wilfried Nancy has plenty to navigate in his first week at Celtic.
But for Chris Sutton, he’s already off to a good start.
Arriving with just three days to work with the team ahead of Sunday’s top-of-the-table clash with Hearts, Nancy will have been a busy man.
Martin O’Neill made it look easy in his interim spell, managing a perfect domestic record and winning seven of his eight games in total.
And Sutton is happy to hear that he has been tapping into O’Neill’s knowledge and experience.
Chris Sutton on Wilfried Nancy’s ‘great decision’ at Celtic
Nancy mentioned his discussions with O’Neill, simply saying of him: “What a guy.” What a guy indeed.
O’Neill and his backroom staff reinstalled much-needed confidence in a team which had been struggling under Brendan Rodgers.
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And Sutton, in his column for the Daily Record, is glad that Nancy has taken his advice.
He said: “Wilfried Nancy is finally in the building – and he’s made one great decision already.
“The Frenchman revealed he’s spoken to Martin O’Neill and that is a decent first step for me.
“I said in these pages last week it would be foolish to not speak to the outgoing interim manager.
“Nancy will be his own man, he’ll have his own ideas about how he’ll want to play. This move has been a month in the making so he’ll also have had the chance to analyse everything about the squad, what it can and can’t do.
“But there’s still nothing that can prepare you for life in Glasgow. I thought I had a good knowledge of British football when I arrived in this city.
“Yet I couldn’t believe just how crazy it was.
“That’s what is awaiting Nancy but there’s no better way to get a feel for his new surroundings than to talk to the man who’s been in there for the last five or six weeks.
“And, knowing Martin, there won’t have been any sugar coating either.”
What else have we heard about Wilfried Nancy?
Perhaps the most important we’ve heard about Nancy so far is how to pronounce his name.
We also got a rare Michael Nicholson interview, where he seemed to vow to financially back the new boss in the winter window.
We were also allowed behind the scenes on his first day at Lennoxtown, where he was reunited with Alistair Johnston.
But as the Hearts game edges closer, the focus is increasingly on the serious stuff.
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