We got more football chat from Martin O’Neill in just over 20 minutes this afternoon than we got in a month from our former manager Wilfried Nancy. Although he started with a joke that got no laughs and asked of it to be cut, things soon improved as Martin talked a great deal of common sense and in doing so gave us an insight into how he is going to steady the ship and take the club forward with an eye on the league title.
Motherwell were praised for their performance last week against Celtic with Martin describing them as possibly the best footballing side in the league.
There was sympathy for Wilfried Nancy with the lack of a striker – something he is well aware of himself – probably costing the Frenchman his job. ON many occasions that illusive second goal, for instance against Dundee United and theRangers, just wouldn’t come in dominant first half performances, the opponents took heart from that and came back after the break to win the matches.
A wee revelation too from Martin, revealing that it was Wolfsburg who had a bid for Daizen Maeda accepted in the summer only for Celtic to have to pull out of the deal due to Michael Nicholson’s failure to sign a striker.
On the transfer window, as we have been telling you on The Celtic Star, Shaun Maloney has been working on recruitment at the club since stepping aside from his Interim Assistant Manager role to allow Wilfried Nancy and his staff to take the reins. That knowledge will be relied upon by Martin O’Neill who joked he’d take all the credit if the new signings do well but Maloney and Mark Fotheringham can take the blame for any that don’t wok out.
A vintage performance from a Celtic manager, the first since, well Martin O’Neill.
Everything that was said at today’s Mainstream media conference at Lennoxtown can be read on the following pages. The Celtic Star and the rest of the fan media previously working with the club has been banned for asking some perfectly reasonable questions.
