O'Neill & Maloney 'continue' interim Celtic tenure

Celtic say "Martin O'Neill and Shaun Maloney will continue to manage first-team matters on an interim basis, until this process is complete".

O'Neill, who previously managed Celtic from 2000 to 2005, and ex-Celtic player Maloney, have overseen four games following Brendan Rodgers' resignation.

Columbus Crew head coach Wilfried Nancy has been heavily linked with the Celtic manager's job but the club's latest update would indicate O'Neill will remain in charge for Saturday's Scottish Premiership meeting with St Mirren in Paisley (20:00 GMT).

"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," O'Neill told Celtic TV.

"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."

After Saturday's game, Celtic take on Feyenoord in the Europa League (27 November), Premiership opponents Hibernian (30 November), Dundee (3 December) and Hearts (7 December) then Roma in the Europa League (11 December) before the Premier Sports Cup final against St Mirren (15 December).