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✅ Main takeaway:
At this point, it’s not just Wilfred Nancy’s Celtic side who are keeping a keen eye, it’s Nancy himself.
There are a lot of explanations and justifications, and a lot of verbal distortions as he tries to talk about his recent defeat. It got painful, fast.
“I think I’m in a good direction with the players,” he said after his fourth consecutive defeat in his new job, against struggling Dundee United 2-1.
“Today you saw that we performed well,” he said. “We are getting better,” he insisted. “We were close to winning… Keep the faith.”
All around him now there are atheists in football. There really can’t be many believers left. As Nancy spoke, it was hard to avoid flinching and flinching again.
As he made his way through his post-match evaluation, the temptation was to shout, “Stop… stop talking… stop explaining because when you explain, you lose again.”
The bottom line in all of this is that between his nightmare start with Celtic and his down-and-out finish with Columbus Crew, Nancy has won just three of his past 16 games as manager.
The defeats suffered by United, St Mirren, Roma and Hearts joined defeats previously suffered in America – Cincinnati (twice), Chicago Fire, New York City and New England Revolution.
Nancy finished seventh in the MLS regular season, winning 14 of 34 matches, ranking sixth in the league in terms of goals scored and eighth in terms of goals conceded. Having been manager of the season the previous year, it was all very bad.
His credentials to assume the position of Celtic coach were weak at best, despite the enthusiastic rhetoric launched by some observers in America, who portrayed him as a distinguished person and considered his arrest a coup.
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