Striker has been something of a problem position for Celtic this season and increasing his options up front will doubtless be a priority for Wilfried Nancy during the January transfer window.

But Nancy, who squared up to the Scottish media for the first time yesterday after being officially unveiled as the new manager of the Glasgow club at their Lennoxtown training ground, clearly knows a thing or two about what makes a good centre forward.

The Frenchman revealed that two of the beautiful game’s greatest ever marksmen, Henrik Larsson and Thierry Henry, had influenced his decision to leave Columbus Crew in the United States and embrace the pressure of Parkhead.

It did not take very long for the surprise appointment to dispel notions that he has been working in a football backwater “acro

See Full Page