Wilfried Nancy has demanded he be given more time to make his mark at Celtic after an extraordinary seven-minute rant.

Nancy has won two of his seven matches in charge, losing the other five, with Celtic sitting second in the Scottish Premiership ahead of hosting rivals Rangers on Saturday, live on Sky Sports.

Celtic confirmed their first January signing in Julian Araujo on loan from Bournemouth on Friday, and when Nancy was asked if he felt the club's board would support him to create the team he wants, the manager embarked on a passionate defence of his tenure so far.

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Nancy said: "Yes, step by step. I know that you do your job, I know that your job is to attack me, or to ask me a lot of questions. No problem with that. But this is only the beginning.

"Usually, we have four or five weeks of pre-season. I didn't have pre-season. I know why. I came, two days after I have a game. And the game that we should have won,...