At this level, it is not simply Wilfried Nancy’s Celtic staff that is a tough watch, it is Nancy himself.

So many explanations and justifications, so many verbal contortions as he makes an attempt to speak via his newest defeat. It is turn out to be painful, rapidly.

“I believe I’m in a very good path with the gamers,” he mentioned after his fourth defeat in a row in his new job, a 2-1 loss at struggling Dundee United.

“Right this moment you noticed we had a very good efficiency,” he said. “We’re bettering,” he insisted. “We had been near profitable… preserve the religion.”

Throughout him now there are soccer atheists. There actually cannot be many believers left. As Nancy spoke, it was exhausting to keep away from wincing and wincing and wincing once more.

As he made his manner via his post-match evaluation, the temptation was to shout, ‘Cease… cease speaking… cease explaining as a result of whenever you’re explaining, you are shedding, once more’.

The underside line in all of that is that between his nightmarish starting with Celtic and his low-key ending with Columbus Crew, Nancy has received simply three of his final 16 video games as a supervisor.

The defeats by United, St Mirren, Roma and Hearts now joined those that went earlier than in America – Cincinnati (twice), Chicago Hearth, New York Metropolis and New England Revolution.

Nancy completed seventh within the common season in MLS, received 14 of 34 video games, rating joint sixth within the league for objectives scored and eighth for objectives conceded. After being supervisor of the season the 12 months earlier than, it was all very blah.

His credentials for the Celtic job had been, at finest, skinny, regardless of the excited rhetoric of some observers in America, who painted him as a particular one and his seize as a coup.