Martin O’Neill’s Celtic return confirmed as Dermot Desmond speaks out

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Martin O’Neill has been named as Celtic manager until the end of the season, the club have announced.

Celtic sacked Wilfried Nancy on Monday, along with all of his coaching assistants and head of football operations Paul Tisdale.

It has also been confirmed that the ‘dream team’ coaching staff of Shaun Maloney, Mark Fotheringham and Stephen McManus have all also returned.

It’s a third spell at Celtic for O’Neill, who had a dream return earlier in the season, winning seven of his eight matches in interim charge.

It’s also the third time already this season that the Hoops have changed manager.

What do you think is the main reason Wilfried Nancy couldn’t buy a win as Celtic manager? 🤔

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Martin O’Neill replaces Wilfried Nancy at Celtic

It was a disastrous 33 days in charge for Nancy, and he ultimately paid for his results with his job, with Tisdale clearly being punished for the decision.

What an absurd season…

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In a statement on the Celtic website, O’Neill paid tribute to Nancy and said he was ‘honoured’ to have been given the job again.

He said: “I am really pleased, in fact, very honoured to be asked back to manage the team again and I am looking forward to getting back to work again with the players.

“I know we would all have hoped for things to have worked out differently under Wilfried and I personally want to wish him good luck with everything he does in the game. He is a fine man and I am sure he will go on and achieve success again, I have no doubt of that.

“For me, I’ve been asked to take this great job on again and my focus will be to try and get us back to winning ways if we can. We will need everyone right behind us.

“We still have a lot to look forward to and a lot to try and achieve, and myself, Shaun and the coaching staff and, of course, the players will be giving everything to achieve all the success we can for the club.”

Celtic’s principal shareholder, Dermot Desmond added: “I am pleased to welcome Martin back to Celtic.

“We know exactly what he will bring and we hope that he can do what he has done for us before, giving us that drive and direction as we move into the next part of the season.  

“We all know about his proven track record with the club and hope he can bring us similar success going forward.

“When we appointed Wilfried to the role of manager, clearly we thought we could enjoy a successful period under his control.

“Unfortunately this did not work out in the way we would have liked, and while he and the club are disappointed with the recent period, I want to take this opportunity to wish him well in all he does going forward.”