{"id":4978,"date":"2025-12-19T01:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=4978"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:03:14","slug":"let-wilfried-nancy-cook-and-judge-him-at-end-of-season-thierry-henry-urges-patience-from-celtic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=4978","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Let Wilfried Nancy cook and judge him at end of season&#8217; &#8211; Thierry Henry urges patience from Celtic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nancy&#8217;s first managerial stint in Europe &#8211; having moved from Major League Soccer (MLS) side Colombus Crew &#8211; began with defeats by title rivals Hearts and Roma in the Europa League, before a 3-1 loss to St Mirren in the Scottish League Cup final. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/ckgmm87drm9t#Report\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">latest defeat<\/a> at Tannadice left Celtic six points behind Premiership leaders Hearts, albeit with a game in hand. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The thing is it&#8217;s tough to come and try to impose your philosophy and your identity at a club maybe &#8211; I don&#8217;t know because I haven&#8217;t watched many games &#8211; playing another way,&#8221; Henry said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Right now it&#8217;s too early, and I do think he can turn it around. He is a great guy and has a great mind. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not working at the moment and obviously it doesn&#8217;t look great. But he&#8217;s a friend of mine, so I am going to be biased.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You don&#8217;t want any coach to lose their job that early. It doesn&#8217;t make sense to me.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nancy, who led Columbus Crew to the MLS Cup in 2023 and the Leagues Cup the following year, was named MLS coach of the year in 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will search for his first points as Celtic manager when his side host Aberdeen in the Scottish Premiership on Sunday (15:00 GMT).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cn98pgq4v88o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy&#8217;s first managerial&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}