Celtic Accelerate Move To Take Wilfried Nancy From Columbus Crew As New Manager

Celtic are to accelerate talks pinch Wilfried Nancy complete nan play arsenic nan Columbus Crew head edges person to replacing Brendan Rodgers successful Glasgow. Celtic are understood to person informed nan Major League Soccer broadside connected Friday of their plans, pinch immoderate compensation required to coax nan Frenchman not regarded arsenic problematic. Nancy is believed to beryllium keen connected nan switch.

Celtic dream to person Nancy successful spot by nan clip they sojourn St Mirren adjacent weekend, which would bring an extremity to Martin O’Neill’s caretaker spell. O’Neill was owed to meet Celtic’s main shareholder, Dermot Desmond, successful London connected Friday. The 2nd tenure of Rodgers successful Glasgow ended successful acrimony successful precocious October, pinch Desmond taking nationalist purpose astatine nan erstwhile Liverpool manager.

Nancy was regarded arsenic an outsider erstwhile named arsenic a imaginable Celtic head astatine nan clip of Rodgers’s resignation. However, he fits nan desired Celtic floor plan of an emerging coach who nan Scottish champions judge tin advancement wrong their strategy and judge transportation policies. Nancy, who antecedently managed Montreal, took Columbus Crew to seventh successful nan Eastern Conference successful nan MLS this season.

Kieran McKenna was primitively regarded arsenic nan favourite for nan Celtic occupation but nan nine person not approached Ipswich Town regarding their manager. McKenna has displayed small willingness to time off Portman Road, pinch his compensation clause and expected costs placing him astatine nan rich | extremity of Celtic’s scale. Robbie Keane was besides nether consideration. Bodø/Glimt’s Kjetil Knutsen has regularly been linked pinch Celtic. Paul Tisdale, Celtic’s caput of shot operations, alternatively identified Nancy arsenic his first choice.