A lot has gone wrong for Wilfried Nancy at Celtic.
Quite a lot has to go wrong for a club like Celtic to lose four consecutive matches for the first time in almost 50 years.
Celtic fans made their feelings clear to Nancy after the defeat to Dundee United; many have given up hope on him already.
But of all the things to have gone spectacularly wrong, perhaps the biggest mis-step was the first.
Or at least, Gabby Logan and Mark Chapman have put forward a pretty strong case for that being the case.
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Gabby Logan and Mark Chapman on Celtic manager Wilfried Nancy
If you’re going to take charge of the biggest week of the club’s season so far, you should probably try to avoid losing every game.
Unfortunately, Nancy couldn’t manage that.
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And reflecting on his nightmare start, Chapman and Logan laid out just how baffling the timing of his appointment was, on the Sports Agents podcast.
Logan said: “They got Wilfried Nancy in to take over from the interim manager Martin O’Neill, at a point when O’Neill had seemed to have turned things around.”
Chapman said: “If you’re about to take over a job from somebody, but they have a massive conference to do, or sales meeting, or whatever it may be before they left, you would let them do that for you, for the good of the company. Wouldn’t you?”
Logan replied: “Also, you would pick up off the back of either this amazing week and things would be great, or things haven’t gone so well, and you can only go better. Right? Things can only improve under your charge.
“So it feels like there’s nothing to lose from letting those things ride out, over that really big week.”
Chapman said: “They’d won seven out of eight. Look, they weren’t pulling up trees, but they’d [turned things around] under Martin O’Neill.
“Do you not just keep it fairly similar, rather than changing it? and do that bit gradually over the coming weeks and months.
“And now, I just feel for him. Because everything is on the back foot.”
Logan then joked: “Can you be further than the back foot? Because I think he might be further than being the back foot – I don’t know where that is.”
How many more games are you going to give Wilfried Nancy?
What if Celtic kept Martin O’Neill?
It’s difficult to overstate just how drastic the change has been, going from O’Neill to Nancy.
The most obvious change is in formation, with the new boss implementing the same shape he used at Columbus Crew, shoehorning countless Celtic players into unfamiliar roles.
But it’s not just O’Neill whose absence is being felt – in Shaun Maloney, Mark Fotheringham and Stephen McManus, Celtic seemed to have a revitalised coaching staff.
But that trio now gone and replaced by Nancy’s allies, it feels like Celtic have changed far too much, too soon.
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