Nancy tries to protect himself from the criticism however confused he’s “a human being” with “feelings” as he prepares his aspect to go to Dundee United on Wednesday.

“The one factor that I do know is I obtain a whole lot of messages from my household to ask me if I am OK,” he mentioned. “So it signifies that possibly I get killed, nevertheless it’s OK.

“Remember I come from Europe, so I understand how it really works and, to be honest, within the MLS it’s the identical – not with identical depth clearly.

“The followers, the media, you do not have outcomes, that is regular. You would possibly suppose I’m loopy, however I’m embracing this adversity as a result of I do know I am getting higher.

“I haven’t got to show something to anyone, easy as that. I simply need to be coherent with my staff and to do my job as greatest as I can and, after that, it will likely be extra constructive.”

Some have criticised Nancy’s resolution to vary to his most well-liked 3-4-3 system from the one adopted by O’Neill in the course of the veteran’s seven wins in eight video games in cost.

“It’s nothing concerning the system,” he mentioned. “It’s not rocket science what I am saying.

“I’m the coach, I’ve concepts they usually did it earlier than. I’m simply asking them to play with a couple of nuances, however I do not attempt to invent soccer.”

Nancy admitted “for the second, I’ve nothing” to show to followers or media that he has what it takes to vary his staff’s fortunes.

Nonetheless, he identified that “it’s 10 days that I’m right here” and he knew it might be an issue contemplating “the very fact it’s the first time for everybody to have a coach coming in in the course of the season like this” however had no regrets about taking on when he did.

Nancy mentioned his activity was “to get this reference to the gamers” and “day-after-day I see there may be an enchancment”.

“I’m going past successful,” he added. “For me, it’s about character, it’s about persona, it’s about coherence, it’s about how we wish to play defensively and offensively.”

Nancy noticed constructive indicators in components of the defeats by Coronary heart of Midlothian, Roma and St Mirren and is “actually assured” that Celtic would discover extra consistency quickly.