Martin O’Neill and Shaun Maloney to remain at Celtic until new manager appointed

Martin O’Neill and Shaun Maloney will continue to take charge of Celtic while the club appoint their new manager.

The 73-year-old former Parkhead boss and the ex-Hoops player were put in interim control of the first team after Brendan Rodgers resigned last month.

It has been reported recently that the Celtic board have been interviewing candidates, with Columbus Crew head coach Wilfried Nancy emerging as the new bookmakers’ favourite.

On their official website, the Parkhead club stated that it “will update supporters further as soon as possible”.

Ahead of the William Hill Premiership game against St Mirren on Saturday, O’Neill told Celtic TV said: “First things first, I enjoyed the couple of days off because it was a bit of a whirlwind fortnight beforehand, but if there’s not an announcement now in the next few days, then I’m happy to still be here for the weekend game against St Mirren.

“First of all, we want the players coming back from international matches unscathed, which is the most important thing for us just now, now that we’ve got a few injuries to contend with.

“So whatever sort of squad we had for the Kilmarnock game, I wouldn’t mind having roughly the same again, but we can only deal with what we have and what we want to do and we just want to play as strongly as we possibly can.

“But let’s see what the next couple of days bring.”