According to reports, Nottingham Forest chief Evangelos Marinakis was \u2018furious\u2019 at Nuno Espirito Santo for two reasons before sacking the head coach.<\/p>\n
On Monday night, it was confirmed that Nottm Forest<\/strong><\/a> have sacked head coach Nuno as the club posted a brief statement on their website.<\/p>\n The club said: \u2018Nottingham Forest Football Club confirms that, following recent circumstances, Nuno Esp\u00edrito Santo<\/a><\/strong> has today been relieved of his duties as Head Coach.<\/p>\n \u2018The Club thanks Nuno for his contribution during a very successful era at the City Ground, in particular his role in the 2024\/25 season, which will forever be remembered fondly in the history of the Club.<\/p>\n \u2018As someone who played a pivotal role in our success last season, he will always hold a special place in our journey.\u2019<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Mourinho v Postecoglou for Forest manager after Nuno sacking confirmed<\/a> Nuno has done a great job since replacing Steve Cooper at the end of 2023 as he guided Nottm Forest to Premier League safety in 2023\/24, while they were a surprise package in 2024\/25 to finish 7th and qualify for Europe.<\/p>\n Despite this, Nuno\u2019s position at Nottm Forest had become untenable amid fallouts with Marinakis and Edu, with Sky Sports reporter Rob Dorsett claiming the club\u2019s owner was left \u2018furious\u2019 at the head coach on two occasions.<\/p>\n Dorsett said on X: \u201cMarinakis furious with Nuno over the two v public criticisms from his manager.<\/p>\n \u201cMeeting Nuno wanted with the owner to discuss the future never happened.<\/p>\n \u201cInstead Marinakis has decided the club needs a new start. Glasner, Iriola, Pochettino and Silva are all very much admired. #nffc.\u201d<\/p>\n MORE NOTTM FOREST COVERAGE ON F365\u2026 He later added: \u201cI\u2019ve been told no one has yet been lined up to replace Nuno, but Marinakis wants to move quickly.<\/p>\n \u201cOliver Glasner, Andoli Iriola, Mauricio Pochettino and Marco Silva are all widely admired by the Forest hierarchy. #nffc.\u201d<\/p>\n TalkSPORT reporter Alex Crook, meanwhile, has named former Tottenham Hotspur and Celtic boss Ange Postecoglou as another contender to replace Nuno, with him \u201cone of the early frontrunners\u201d.<\/p>\n Former Man Utd, Chelsea and Spurs boss Jose Mourinho has also been heavily linked with a potential return to the Premier League after leaving Fenerbahce, though Crook has indicated that he is unlikely to join Forest amid one \u2018issue\u2019.<\/p>\n Crook said on X: \u201cAnge Postecoglou one of the early front runners to replace Nuno at #NFFC.<\/p>\n \u201cMarco Silva also admired by the hierarchy there and Jose Mourinho another option, although I understand Edu and Marinakis want a more progressive playing style, which was one of the issues with Nuno.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to reports, Nottingham Forest chief Evangelos Marinakis was \u2018furious\u2019 at Nuno Espirito Santo for two reasons before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,38491,13,14,6,794,19,17,38492,11,12,15,16,5,7236,15488,795,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-52509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-evangelos-marinakis","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-home-page","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-jose-mourinho","19":"tag-latest-news","20":"tag-latestnews","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-nottingham-forest","25":"tag-nuno-espirito-santo","26":"tag-premier-league","27":"tag-top-stories","28":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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