Martin O’Neill has warned incoming Celtic boss Wilfried Nancy to stay well clear of the toxic feud that’s going on between the board and fans. 

Nancy is set to be appointed as Brendan Rodgers’ replacement after impressing the Celtic hierarchy following a series of talks and could be in the dugout for the home fixture against Dundee next week.

Hoops legend O’Neill is in interim charge and has offered some advice to the 48-year-old: “The new manager coming in should divorce himself from all those proceedings. This is a fresh start for him.

“He hasn’t been party to anything that’s happened in recent times.

“He’s going to step into something that really has been none of his concern.

“That’s the way I would be approaching it and it’s not like passing the buck.

“It’s just saying, ‘Well, sorry, that’s not of my making — my making is to put Celtic back in the game’.

“Let’s say it was me and I’d never manage the football club again.

“I’d be saying, ‘Yeah, that’s got nothing to do with me, I have to try and win some football games’.”

Jaws dropped when the 73-year-old made his stunning return to the Parkhead club after 20 years and has won four of his five games in charge.

The Northern Irishman said he’ll look back on his second spell with fondness and added that he doesn’t know if he would’ve been able to do the job every week: “In a perverse sort of way, I have actually enjoyed it.

“Could I really do the job again week in, week out, week in, week out, for months on end? I really don’t know.

“Do I have energy and enthusiasm? Yeah, I have those. Is that enough? Not so sure.

“I’ve got all of those particular things. Do I have knowledge of the game? Of course, yeah.

“When it is over, and I don’t know when that will be, I’ll think, ‘That was actually quite nice’.

“It kind of reinvigorates you because you are actually concentrating on something you used to do, and you’d almost forgotten how to do it.”