{"id":573468,"date":"2025-11-16T05:18:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T05:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/573468\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T05:18:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T05:18:17","slug":"tony-cascarino-makes-arsene-wenger-claim-as-celtic-edge-closer-to-bringing-in-a-new-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/573468\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Cascarino makes Arsene Wenger claim as Celtic edge closer to bringing in a new coach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Celtic love going down an unknown alley when it comes to bringing in a new coach. <\/strong><\/p>\n

By all accounts, it seems as though Celtic<\/a>, just like they did with Ange Postecoglou in 2021, might be repeating that call as they search for Brendan Rodgers\u2019 successor. <\/p>\n

Wilfried Nancy seems to be Celtic\u2019s top choice<\/a>, with the Frenchman doing his best work in the MLS, and in the MLS only for Columbus Crew, and previously for CF Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n

But Nancy<\/a> could soon be moving into the crazy and highly pressured world of European football, and specifically Glasgow. <\/p>\n

\"WilfriedPhoto by Drew Horton \u2013 Columbus Crew\/MLS via Getty ImagesTony Cascarino on Celtic pushing to appoint Wilfried Nancy<\/p>\n

Tony Cascarino<\/a> admitted that there is a \u2018strange\u2019 and \u2018weird\u2019 nature to Celtic looking to appoint Nancy<\/a> as their new coach.<\/p>\n

Speaking on talkSPORT, the former striker did compare the situation to when Arsene Wenger first set foot into English football in 1996. <\/p>\n

Although Cascarino pointed out that Wenger, who was brought in by Arsenal from Japan, already had previous success in France\u2019s top-tier with AS Monaco. <\/p>\n

Shebahn Aherne:<\/strong> \u201cSo, Columbus Crew manager Wilfried Nancy has emerged as the frontrunner. He is from the MLS. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t know about Ange Postecoglou either. It doesn\u2019t mean that the board are necessarily getting it wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cascarino:<\/strong> \u201cYou don\u2019t know. I mean, how can I comment on someone who is managing, and I don\u2019t follow the MLS?! I don\u2019t know what he is about. <\/p>\n

\u201cI am sure, as you said, Celtic have done their due diligence on the manager. I always refer back to Arsene Wenger. But Arsene had done a lot at Monaco before he went to Japan, and then he came to Arsenal. There was a lot of homework done before he got to the Arsenal job. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a strange one, isn\u2019t it? It does feel weird because I don\u2019t want to have a go at a guy I know nothing about. He might turn out to be brilliant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aherne:<\/strong> \u201cThis is it. Remember Alan Brazil. When Celtic appointed Ange Postecoglou, and he was going, \u2018never heard of this guy.\u2019 All that kind of stuff. That sweetly backfired, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wenger became one of Arsenal\u2019s greatest-ever coaches, and a pioneer for change in how players trained and looked after themselves. <\/p>\n

Sports science is at the heart of football now, but Wenger was ahead of his time in 1996 when he focused on players\u2019 nutrition and how they trained, amongst other things.<\/p>\n

Added to that, the 76-year-old went on to win numerous trophies with the Gunners, including three Premier League titles, but he wasn\u2019t exactly welcomed to England with open arms. <\/p>\n

\u2018Arsene who\u2019 were just some of the headlines and comments thrown in the Frenchman\u2019s face. <\/p>\n

The rest is history because the call from David Dein to bring in Wenger was a stroke of genius, and hopefully, Celtic can have some luck if Nancy is indeed their next man in the dugout. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtic love going down an unknown alley when it comes to bringing in a new coach. By all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15618,748,393,4884,12,1144,712,166877,16,15,1764,179997],"class_list":{"0":"post-573468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-arsene-wenger","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-tony-cascarino","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wales","19":"tag-wilfried-nancy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115557690136021778","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}