{"id":600393,"date":"2025-11-29T02:17:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T02:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/600393\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T02:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T02:17:18","slug":"stephen-mcgowan-says-wilfried-nancy-is-already-hard-at-work-at-celtic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/600393\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen McGowan says Wilfried Nancy is already hard at work at Celtic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Wilfried Nancy has not even been unveiled at Celtic and already it appears that the Frenchman is hard at work.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/tag\/wilfried-nancy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nancy<\/a> is widely expected to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/news\/wilfried-nancy-to-celtic-timeline-as-first-fixture-as-parkhead-boss-emerges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced as Celtic\u2019s new manager<\/a> after this weekend after a four-week search by the Parkhead board.<\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/news\/tom-bogert-slaps-down-sky-sports-presenters-barb-at-celtic-bound-wilfried-nancy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrive at Celtic highly recommended<\/a> as MLS experts and Columbus Crew fans mourn the loss of their manager.<\/p>\n<p>And it seems that Nancy is already hard at work after journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/tag\/stephen-mcgowan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen McGowan<\/a> shares what he\u2019s been hearing from Parkhead about the incoming boss.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2245190920-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Wilfried Nancy watches on during the MLS Cup play-off match between Columbus Crew v FC Cincinnati\" class=\"wp-image-335188\" \/>Photo by Jason Mowry\/Getty ImagesWilfried Nancy is talking to Celtic\u2019s scouts<\/p>\n<p>McGowan appears to have his ear close to what\u2019s happening at Celtic as the journalist shares what Nancy is telling the club scouts.<\/p>\n<p>McGowan told <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/7jputD2S5GgHJGKpXJqyxY?si=aUzPbCZgS0CXl3I0PzRTMQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Scottish Football Podcast<\/a>, \u201cI believe he\u2019s already kind of started outlining to Celtic scouts, the kind of profile of player that he wants to get in. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what\u2019s interesting is fans are a bit concerned, because by all accounts, he plays a possession-based style of football. And actually, in some ways, it sounds quite similar to the way Brendan Rodgers played.<\/p>\n<p>         Wilfried Nancy\u2019s managerial record     <\/p>\n<ul class=\"inline-links multi\">\n<li>Games in charge: 215<\/li>\n<li>Games won: 106<\/li>\n<li>Games drawn: 54<\/li>\n<li>Games lost: 55<\/li>\n<li>Win percentage: 49.3%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cAnd of course, when you come up against a low block and 11 men behind the ball, then that can be difficult to break down. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, I mean, he won\u2019t have experienced what he\u2019s going to experience in Scotland in terms of teams really setting up to frustrate Celtic. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, that\u2019s going to be fascinating in itself to see how flexible and how kind of imaginative he is to break that down, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Who will Wilfried Nancy target for Celtic?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no secret that Celtic require reinforcements in the striking department and 67 Hail Hail did suggest that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/opinion\/wilfried-nancy-already-knows-the-perfect-daizen-maeda-replacement-he-could-bring-to-celtic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Hoops should target Diego Rossi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/news\/celtic-told-how-much-they-will-have-to-pay-for-columbus-crew-striker-diego-rossi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Celtic were told a \u20ac10m price tag<\/a> would be on Rossi\u2019s head should Nancy want to try and tempt the Uruguayan to move to Glasgow with him.<\/p>\n<p>With the January transfer window a matter of mere weeks away, Nancy will hopefully have his sights on a number of new players and, hopefully, the Celtic board will back him immediately.<\/p>\n<p>  Join Our Newsletter <\/p>\n<p>Receive a digest of our best Celtic content each week direct to your mailbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wilfried Nancy has not even been unveiled at Celtic and already it appears that the Frenchman is hard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,188381,16,15,179997],"class_list":{"0":"post-600393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-stephen-mcgowan","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-wilfried-nancy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115630587583987331","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600393","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=600393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}