Wilfried Nancy made it through to the post-match media conference stage today without being sacked and he went on to re-assure the Celtic support that he’d still be our manager in the coming weeks as he has the full confidence of the self-proclaimed world class in everything that they do, Celtic Board…
Here’s what the Frenchman was saying after the second half collapse against theRangers led to a 3-1 defeat. Had the league started when Nancy took over Celtic would be in danger of being RELEGATED!…
Wilfried Nancy, Head Coach of Celtic, reacts during the Scottish Premiership League match between Celtic and theRangers at Celtic Park on January 03, 2026. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
Q: How do you summarise that performance from your team?
Wilfried Nancy: “The first half was outstanding, offensively but defensively also. The commitment to win the ball back, the intensity that we put in, we should have scored more goals. The second half, we wanted to do the same and we conceded one goal on a throw-in. After that, the second goal was one throw-in and the third goal was one throw-in. So this is the reality actually. I think my players deserve better for sure, because of what they did in the first half and also when they started the second half, but the details killed us today.”
Q: Why does it seem that this team can’t deliver a 90-minute performance? Because in many of your defeats, you played well in one half and then not in the second half. Why is that?
Wilfried Nancy: “This is something that we are working on. There is a bit of everything. It could be the consistency to keep the intensity. But also for me, I think the intensity was there. This is more about details. Small details today was the case with the goals that we conceded. Again, I can talk about focusing, and I can talk about many things, but we have to be better on this one.”
Wilfried Nancy, Head Coach of Celtic, reacts during the Scottish Premiership match between Celtic and Rangers at Celtic Park on January 03, 2026 (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
Q: Those fans outside right now, they’re unhappy. What would you say to them right now?
Wilfried Nancy: “Yes, I can understand that. I think that they were behind us in the first half. They pushed us in a good way. After that, I can understand why they are disappointed regarding the fact that we had many possibilities to win the game. I know that I repeat myself, but it happened in the past also. We are in many games. I think that they really enjoyed the first half. I saw a team of players that they were giving everything with the ball and without the ball. So they see the direction that we want to go, but consistently for 95 minutes.
“After that, the fact that I know the meaning of this game, I know that and it’s worrying for them. But what I can tell them is what we did during the first half and also a certain moment in the second half. This is what we want to do. But at the same time, we know that we cannot accept to conceded goals like this. And this is something that we’re going to work on.
Youssef Chermiti of theRangers scores his team’s second goal past Kasper Schmeichel of Celtic during the Scottish Premiership match between Celtic and theRangers at Celtic Park on January 03, 2026. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
Q: Do you accept the fact that many fans now do not want you to be the manager of a football club? Can you understand why they’ve come to this decision? They’re still outside at the moment.
Wilfried Nancy: “Yes, the result. This is the way it is for the moment. And when I say this is the way it is, it doesn’t mean that I am a defeated guy. No. What I mean is we are really close to turning things around. And again, I repeat myself, but I can understand the situation.’
Q: Do you worry about your own future at this point in time after six defeats in eight?
Wilfried Nancy: “I don’t think about it. I think about finding ways to help my team to be good on defence.”
Yang Hyun-Jun of Celtic scores his team’s first goal during the Scottish Premiership match between Celtic and theRangers at Celtic Park on January 03, 2026. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
Q: Do you see enough from the team to put faith in yourself that you can turn this around?
Wilfried Nancy: “Yes, I see enough, except for the fact that we didn’t score more goals. And again, the level up. I know that we lost, but I have also to be objective. And the level up that we had at a certain moment was really, really, really high. This is a reality. And I would not talk like that if it weren’t the case. But that’s why this is, in terms of results, again, that’s why I said that this is the same story. And we all know that. And that’s why I said that we are really close to things turning around. But for the moment, details, details, details.”
Q: You say you’re not a defeated guy. Do you still feel that you can succeed in this job this season? The league title is still there for you to play for. Is that how you feel?
Wilfried Nancy: “Yes.”
Rod Stewart prior to the Scottish Premiership match between Celtic and theRangers at Celtic Park on January 03, 2026. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
Q: What gives you confidence that you will turn it around?
Wilfried Nancy: “Because I watched every game and I saw many, many good things that we did, like today again. But now it’s about consistency. So my narrative would not be the same if it was not the case. But this is the case for the moment. So that’s why I am a big believer that we’re going to be able to turn things around.”
Q: And you expect the board to continue to give you time and support in this January transfer market as well?
Wilfried Nancy: “We are together with the board.”
Q: You don’t have any fears about the confidence of the players after more defeats?
Wilfried Nancy: “When we lose, when someone loses, the confidence is going to be low. It’s clear. But we have also many things that I can show, and we will discuss that with the players, that the confidence could be high. And now it’s all about finding a balance with the details. This game today, was about details. So we can concede goals. We conceded so many goals, and the goal that we conceded, we know that we can do better. And yes, we lost again, and nobody is pleased with that because of what we did, because we deserved better. But at the end of the day, details and we lost again.”
A memorial message is displayed in remembrance of the late John Robertson, former Scottish football player, prior to the Scottish Premiership League match between Celtic and theRangers at Celtic Park on January 03, 2026. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
Q: One of the accusations against yourself and the team is that at half-time, teams figure out a way to play against your style and your team. What do you think of that? Do you accept that?
Wilfried Nancy: “No, this is not about accusation. People can analyse the situation. But after that, like I said, we… I’m going to talk about today. We came back, second half, and we were on the game. And again, we conceded a goal on throw ins. So after that, yes, we want to push. Yes, we want to go. After that, emotionally and mentally, it could be a bit difficult. And we conceded a second goal like this. So it’s not about trying to match. This is about trying to find a way to be more consistent with these details. The game is like this. But the idea is to move up with that. And I think that we could have done better on that. But the context of the way we conceded helped them today.”
Q: To be fair, Wilfried, you’ve been saying the same things since you’ve become Celtic manager after most games. What is it that players are not getting in your mind?
Wilfried Nancy: “It is not that they are not getting. I am with my players. I’m not here to pinpoint who missed the chances because everybody missed. But again, the execution, I think that this should be better. And they work every day to do it. So again, I am with my players. I want to protect my players. I know that they do the maximum that they can do. After that, there is a moment like today, that no, we have to be better in this moment, in these details. But this is what I feel.”
Q: Wilfried, you inherited a very good situation from Martin O’Neill and Shaun Maloney. Those players don’t appear to be the same players that are under your care. Would you not accept that that’s a bit of a problem for the rest of the season?
Wilfried Nancy: “In terms of results, yes. I cannot deny that. After that, they struggle through certain moments. But they find a way to win. I cannot deny that. So now, I think that small margins, because again, the first game against Hearts, if we win the game, if we score the goals, I think that it could be different. So now, this is the situation. And when we lose, it could be difficult. But I know that my players are strong also to be able to win back.”
The man talks utter gibberish, every time he opens his mouth. Let’s get back to basics, that defence isn’t even close to being good enough. There is à lack of creativity (and strength) in the midfield and the striking is abysmal. Far too many players just not good enough, not tough enough and, in my view, need to move on.
He needs to go asap.
For your information Wilfried , it wasn’t the details that killed you today —–It was eleven ” Diddies” from Ibrox . You were beaten by one of the worst Rangers teams this century . You have presided over the worst run of defeats in Celtic history . You are an absolute ” Dud ” who knows nothing about football ” Modern or ancient” and if you had any dignity you would resign .
The Celtic Board won’t sack you because that would be showing them up as totally incompetent for employing you you in the first place . You need to go and so do the present Celtic Board along with their ” Prize capture ” Paul Tisdale who is the main architect of Celtic’s monumental decline .” SACK THE BOARD” chants are too lenient for what is happening with Celtic , at the moment . Every Celtic supporter should BOYCOT Celtic Park and also every away ground until empty seats inspire action from the Celtic Board .
Stay safe Mr Nancy.
Theres a lot of crazies and stormzies about.
Oh no, the pricks prick is back.
A sick wanker that admitted that his PTSD stops him from mentioning the hilarious death of his old team.
We lost a match today, you lost a football club you absolute fanny.
You cant even celebrate on hun sites, you are so fucking pathetic that you have to foul up Celtic sites.
How pathetic a life is that.
What a fucking arsehole.
Screamer the PTSD fuckwit
Hee hee hee.
I admitted nothing,unless you are seeing words that arent there.(?)
Another angry tim.
Enjoy your weekend.
AAK.
Screamer the PTSD fanny who took a breakdown because his club died
is constantly on Celtic sites!!!
Just normal behaviour eh!!!!!!
What a fucking arsehole!!
Did you cry like a wee toddler when it happened?
Did you have to take meds due to it?
Screamer the PTSD man over a football club!! Hahaha!!
What a cunt of a life you must have to get the extent of having to go on Celtic sites with a login name for a commentary goal for a club that is 6 feet under!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-XinWnnAAE
Watch this documentary Screamer.
Its laugh out loud hilarity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-XinWnnAAE
Fantastic documentary Screamer, genuine laugh out loud stuff.
The hun at the start who was at the EGM where the shareholders were told by her majesty the queens revenue branch that she had rejected the CVA and the club would be liquidated was hilarious, ‘it was like being at a funeral without the coffin’ was laugh out loud hilarity.
Were you at that EGM Screamer?
More repetition,be careful you dont bore yourself to death.
With every comment you sound more desperate.
AAKA.
Enough is enough GTF
Screamer
Desperate you say?
I’m not the guy whose mental issues mean that you cant even discuss the old club dying nearly 14 years to the day later because it gets you so upset!!
Now that really is desperate!!
I dont have to talk about something because you want me to.
Its very simple.
Upset?
You really are grasping at straws.
Are you a slow learner or what?
If you asked someone what time it was and they didnt answer would you ask them another 20 times?
I’m trying to make it as simple for you as I can.
Lame excuse Screamer.
You were that much of a fan of your old club that your ‘name’ comes from your old club.
Could you tell me why you wont answer a simple question about the old club?
What puts you off from doing so?
You are repeating yourself again.
It is really tedious.
Why do you have this fixation?
Are you really a Rangers fan?
Screamer
People alive during the death of the huns will pass it on to their children, and their childrens children, till the end of time.
Have you eaten jelly and ice cream since the huns died?
Most tims arent like normal people though,are they?
I had ice cream a few weeks ago but I dont like jelly much.
I dont like greens but I love potatoes.
So you wont talk about the old club dying, but tell me this, did you cry?
Sometimes I cry about people with ocfd.
I wish there was more help out there for them.
The normal football fans around the world
are concerned for them too.
They need to remember its only a game.
If its only a game, then why cant you get past the bereavement stage to discuss the death of your old club?
You arent much of a listener are you?
I still cant get my head around an adult so fucked up that he cant talk about the demise of a football team!!
Immature..of course.
But worse than that, as the old saying goes, not the full shilling.
Do you realise how utterly pathetic you are.
Like a wee baby ,, ‘my team died, boo hoo, I cant talk about it!!’
Grow up ffs!!
Man up
Its great to see you getting so annoyed.
Keep trying,your club is in crisis having just sacked your manager,but keep trying.
C’mon wee baby..annoyed..nonsense.
Crisis?
We are sitting 2nd ya dafty.
You should know about sacking managers, your current club does it every season.
Wee baby still to grow up, over a football club
Your ex manager won 2 games out of 8 and your fellow tims are losing the pepper pot.
Media all around the world disagrees with you.
Beaten easily by us,Motherwell,St Mirren….
I could go on…
Your agm had to be stopped etc etc
I hope some neutral football fans see your comments,I really do.
Tell me about the leprauchans.
You are definitely not the truth fairy,thats for sure.
You still cant handle your old club dying 14 years ago, you are a joke figure, we have lost a few matches,you lost an entire football club.
The funny thing is that if the league stopped now, Celtic would still be above sevco.
But because your club has only won 3 trophies in its existence,then you see how desperate you are.
Our trophy room says different.
You could probably use copy and paste
all the time.
I hope you dont repeat yourself like this all the time,you would sound like some kind of zombie.
The trophy room has another clubs trophies!
Along with your current clubs haul..3!
As you regard the current club to be the same club as the one that died, can you tell me why, if it was the same club as yo suggest, why they asked for a club licence to be transferred from themselves to themselves?
And why they would do that as different owners at clubs happen continuously in world football, but club licences still stay with the club. They don’t lose their licence.
The name of it, CLUB licence, is the clue.
However, dead rangers licence was revoked as the club was put forward for liquidation.
Anyway, I know that this will see you not comment as no amount of lies can get you out of this.
But if you are of a mind to, then tell me, who asks to transfer something from themselves to themselves?
Do you understand what Jock Stein said about football?
No idea where you are going with that, I asked you the question.
Its like being asked ‘what is oxygen’, and replying ‘I seen a dog walking down the street’.
At least you have proved that you cant answer it because you know it means that your old club died, which your mental state stops you from commenting on.
Whatever you meant about Jock, which doesn’t make sense, he died in many years before your old club did.
Jock will never be forgotten by many people,tims and bears.
Anybody who is respected in football circles will tell you that.
Maybe you dont know your history.
I am not surprised really.
Im sure you will be never be forgotten….
oh,never mind.
I get what you mean now.
Jock was partly responsible for the death of your old club as Murray spent money they didn’t
have trying to emulate the Lions and killed the club with massive debt as a result.
That’s all you had to say Screamer rather than cryptic statements
Everyone knows this.
Have you been on the buckie?
Have you asked everyone?
Jock said football was nothing without the fans.
The fans are the club,back in1873,now and in the future,the same fans or the same families wearing the same colours,singing the same songs etc etc
Anybody normal can see this.
‘..Anybody abnormal can see this…’ fixed it for you.
What a load of pish!!
‘Hey debtors, hey queeny, you have to realise that it was those nasty directors that ran up debts, so leave us alone, after all, we are the club, not them!!!!’
‘Just let it go queeny. forget the multi millions we owe, after all, we are the club.!’
Screamer, is this a cry for help?
It makes me think of this…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X689J5ormFI
Wibble indeed Screamer
That explanation is so barking mad that I have copied and pasted it to show everyone of here just how of a space cadet you are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X689J5ormFI
Your explanation is the funniest thing ive read,,,do you do stand up?
So why not just run up a billion debt, in fact, 10 billion, fuck it 100 billion.
Then say that was those pesky directors.
That the fans are the club, not them!!
Do you realise you sound insane?
Copy and pasted for all people on here to read in future.
I laughed at this though,….Anybody normal can see this.,,!!!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/staticarchive/691c0ce32d038795e96062d95329921d5e9205ee.jpg
Screamer has ‘jumped the shark’
I dont think you understand what football is really about.
I hope u r not saying big Jock was insane.
Thats another poor comment.
Not everybody gets it though,dont worry.
The term ‘batshit crazy’ sums up your your last comment.
I mean this with the best of intention, but have you been sectioned before?
You are still talking a lot of green balls.
You have been on the bucky,havent you?
Be honest.
What does the phrase jumped the shark mean?
“Jumping the shark” basically refers to a “publicity stunt,” when an entity, artist, or organization goes too far to maintain popularity or attention. The term originates from the television series Happy Days, which was arguably the most popular American show of the 1970s and ran until the mid 80s.
You have now jumped the shark screamer
FIFA defines a Club as a member of a national football Association (affiliated with FIFA) or a league recognized by an Association, which enters at least one team in a competition; essentially, it’s a recognized entity organizing football activities, existing independently or within a larger sports organization, and participating in sanctioned matches.
Key Characteristics:
Membership: Must be affiliated with a FIFA member association or a FIFA-recognized league.
Organization: An entity that organizes football teams and sporting activities.
Participation: Enters at least one team into official football competitions.
Structure: Can be an independent body or part of a larger sports group.
In simpler terms: A football club, in FIFA’s view, is a legitimate, organized group that plays football under the rules of a national football body (like the FA in England) and competes in established leagues or tournaments.
Nothing about the fans being the club Screamer,
The site wouldnt let me paste Blackadder with underpants on his head along with two pencils stuck to his nose but that is so you
Wilkinssscreamer on 6 January, 2026 9:00 pm
I dont think you understand what football is really about.
I hope u r not saying big Jock was insane.
Thats another poor comment.
Not everybody gets it though,dont worry.
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Now you are being a fanny again.
The big man wasn’t talking about what happened to your old club that died.
Now you are being desperate.
Anyway, you have been copied to give everyone a laugh.
It’s interesting that you disagree with FIFA about the definition of a club is too.
Nothing in their definition that the fans are the club.
How long did you have to keep persuading yourself that your old club that died isnt really dead at all?
You should go all the way and pretend it was a Bobby Ewing in the shower scenario, that it was all a dream.
Im glad everyone can have a laugh.
Please explain what big Jock was saying then,Id love to hear it.
He wants fans at the match, not empty stadiums.
Just read FIFAs definition.
Easy.
Are you saying that FIFA are wrong and the screamer from the celtic star is right?
Also, show me Jocks comment where he references a club multi millions in debt by refusing to pay taxes or outstanding debts for many years, instead spending it on side contracts which was a rule breaker, said club then is wound up for not paying off its massive debts , show me where Jock says said club is still alive because people go to watch them!!!!
Get real you lunatic!
I used to shop in Littlewoods and Lewis’s regularly and supported them by spending money in their stores, does that mean that the stores are still alive because I was supportive of them, even though the stores went into liquidation!!!
Dont insult peoples intelligence,
I can just imagine you up at the court hearings for the liquidation of the old club and you telling them its the same club because of a quote Jock made in the 1970s!!!
Or you telling them that the club they were liquidating was still alive!
Cue Benny Hill theme tune!
Shops are exactly the same as football teams.Of course they are.
Yes,people ring up the radio to talk about their favourite shop everyday.
People who go one one shop fight with people who go to another shop.
You are getting more and more ridiculous every day.
I cant wait to tell someone in my family circle about that one.
You are making this really easy for me now.
Its funny when a tim cant agree with the view of their greatest ever manager.
You old club dying in a sea of debt is nothing to do with anything Stein said.
Your club died in the exact same way businesses the world over die, massive debt which cant be repaid back.
The emergency EGM was called to explain to all shareholders that the CVA was rejected and the club would be liquidated, cue greeting huns outside the stadium and jelly and ice cream stocks selling out in stores everywhere.
The day before the current club changed its name to its current form, it played Brechin in its first ever match and was called sevco scotland.
They were given a temporary licence to play that match..why were they given a temporary licence if the old club had survived you may ask as the old club would have the club licence after all…but the old club no longer existed and the licence of the old club reverted back to the SFA who held onto this and gave Sevco a temporary licence. The club changed its name the following day to its present one, but they didnt get the dead clubs licence for months after it, which shouldnt have happened anyway as club licences were not transferrable but that was when the SFA decided to break their own rules for the 5WA.
All this is fact and easily researchable as its all online as everything was reported at the time.
But the thing that trips up docile huns like yourself who argue black is white, is who played Brechin, and that was sevco scotland.
Im always worrying about the names of the teams that play Brechin.
Sometimes people think Im a brechin fan.
Brechin is the secret to this puzzle.
Who knew?
More people need to know this.
Keep spreading the word.
Finally we got there.
When you are an obsessive celtic fan who is freakin time to start with the brechin.
P.s. why dont greggs or mcds get their own firm like the footie teams?
You are like wikipedia or should that be sickapedia?
Its definitely not ridiculous.
Loving it.
‘..When you are an obsessive celtic fan..’
Coming from a hun whose team were playing last evening but decided to write several comments on a Celtic site while the match was being played!!!!!
Your comments above only confirm that you dont like facts and you have a go at me for supplying them.
Obsessed? You cant handle the truth!!
Dont be freakin about the brechin.
Do you like trainspotting too?
I meant to say. I apologise for the foul names ive called you in the past screamer.
Totally wrong.
Anger can make you do bad things.
There are worse tims than you
Dense huns like you hate facts, they prefer soothing lies.
I notice you had no comeback to facts.
I always remember big fat derek johnstone on Clyde the night the huns were sent for liquidation close to
tears, it was hilarious, then he disappeared and re-emerged a few weeks later now saying the club didnt die after all, he was challenged on this but couldnt explain this remarkable zombie like miracle.
When challenged, a lawyer versed in liquidation law Phoned Clyde and explained that what BFDJ was saying was impossible and gave several reasons why which explained the Companies Act and Scots Law.
BFDJs response was unforgettable ‘…you can give me as many FACTS as you want, but the club didn’t die!!..’
Not opinion, but FACTS BFDJ said!!!
So BFDJ is as dense as yourself, although pointedly, BFDJ couldn’t disagree with a single fact that the lawyer said on the radio!
If it quacks like a duck and looks like a duck,theres a good chance it is a duck.
Does it bother you that the vast majority of the footballing world,ie media,ex-players,pundits etc dont actually care?
Why do you think that is the case?