After what has been an impressive season, CF Montréal could lose their most important person in coach Wilfried Nancy with MLS rivals, Columbus Crew after his signature.The Frenchman led Montréal to the MLS playoff semifinal before they suffered a 3-1 defeat in the hands of New York City FC on Sunday and their coach, who finished second in the coach of the year category a man on demand.##NAJAVA_MECA_6422##According to MLSsoccer, Columbus, who recently axed coach Caleb Porter have earmarked Nancy as his replacement. The tactician’s one year contract extension has been triggered meaning he can only move if the two clubs reach an agreement and Columbus compensates for his services.It is something Montréal will be hoping doesn’t materialise as the club has already lost Victor Wanyama who made it clear that he will not be inking a new deal. Djordje Mihailovic is expected to sign for AZ Alkmaar while Canadian midfielder Ismail Ikone is wanted by a couple of clubs.Queried about his future on Tuesday, the tactician remained tight-lipped.”Today is the end-of-season presser, I don’t want to talk about my situation. We’ll have time to talk about it later, but now we talk about the season.”.Crew president Tim Bezbatchenko has made it clear that he wants the coaching issue resolved soonest.“We’d obviously plan and want to have our coach in place for the beginning of preseason even though it is the earliest preseason we’ve had in MLS history. From there, ideally by December, although whether or not that’s December 1 or mid-December we won’t know, “he said.”Some of it will be determined by when we can speak to certain candidates, whether or not we are looking to talk to coaches who are still playing. That all factors in. I would say by December we’re hoping to have it finalized, but as we all know these things are unpredictable”.Okumu back to winning ways after hard fought victory in Belgium
