Wilfried Nancy has landed within the UK and is anticipated to be confirmed as the brand new Celtic boss within the subsequent 24 hours.
The Frenchman has been granted permission to hitch the Glasgow giants by Columbus Crew and can turn out to be the everlasting successor to Brendan Rodgers, who left the club in October.
Celtic have been underneath the interim steerage of Martin O’Neill within the intervening interval and the Ulsterman confirmed tonight’s recreation with Dundee shall be his final.
“You can be relieved to know that that is positively it for tomorrow night, so I’ve been assured of it by the board,” O’Neill mentioned at yesterday’s press convention.
“A younger gentleman’s coming in and it’s over to him.
“However clearly, we’ve obtained the large, large recreation right here tomorrow night and clearly, I’d prefer to try to win it if we are able to.”
O’Neill works wonders to place Celtic again in title rivalry
O’Neill, who led the membership to nice success in his first spell at Celtic Park, has carried out fantastically as soon as once more, serving to the Hoops to 4 successive league wins and a League Cup semi-final victory over Rangers.
“The good factor in regards to the gamers is that they’ve responded they usually’ve proven a willingness to try to implement a number of the issues that I believe are necessary in regards to the recreation,” the Northern Irishman added.
“That’s actually it. Some have possibly even been reluctant to do it, I don’t know. I’m joking.
“They’ve been nice, clearly, and I couldn’t reward them extremely sufficient.
“We’ve obtained another recreation to go, for me. They’ve obtained large, large matches forward, and people video games are actually necessary to them. The response has been terrific.”
Nancy impresses in MLS
Nancy had an underwhelming enjoying profession in his homeland however has flourished since turning into a coach in North America.
After working his means by way of the faculty system, after which the Montreal Influence youth set-up, he was handed the first-team job on the rebranded CF Montreal following the resignation of Thierry Henry.
He led the Canadian workforce to the 2022 MLS playoffs earlier than becoming a member of the Crew.
In his first season in Columbus, he guided the workforce to the MLS Cup and, the 12 months after, the Leagues Cup. He was named MLS Coach of the 12 months in 2024.
He’ll arrive in Glasgow with Celtic again inside attain of Premiership leaders Hearts.
Celtic go into tonight’s game two points adrift of the Edinburgh club with a game in hand.
