{"id":212526,"date":"2025-09-09T10:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/212526\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:02:12","slug":"nottingham-forest-boss-nuno-espirito-santo-sacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/212526\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest boss Nuno Espirito Santo sacked"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the club’s success on the pitch during Nuno’s time as manager, his relationship with Marinakis became increasingly strained.<\/p>\n

In August, Nuno revealed he feared for his job<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Internal tensions at the club were believed to centre around disagreements over their transfer business.<\/p>\n

Previously, Nuno had criticised the club’s activity in the summer transfer window, saying they had wasted a good chance.<\/p>\n

Edu was appointed as Forest’s global head of football earlier in the summer and has taken firm control over the club’s recruitment operation.<\/p>\n

“I always had a very good relationship with the owner – last season we were very close and spoke on a daily basis. This season it is not so well,” Nuno said. <\/p>\n

“Our relationship has changed and we are not as close. Everybody at the club should be together but this is not the reality.”<\/p>\n

In total, Forest have made 13 signings for about \u00a3196m based on reported initial fees. <\/p>\n

As for the outgoings, Anthony Elanga, Danilo and Wayne Hennessey were all among the players whose Forest careers ended this window.<\/p>\n

In May last season, Marinakis appeared to confront Nuno<\/a> on the pitch following a 2-2 draw against Leicester at the City Ground.<\/p>\n

Forest later said the incident was because of the owner’s frustration that striker Taiwo Awoniyi had continued to play following an 88th-minute injury, which subsequently required what was described as “urgent” surgery.<\/p>\n

The club said there was “no confrontation” and it was “fake news” to suggest otherwise.<\/p>\n

However, those missed points against an already-relegated side were part of a run that saw Forest – who had been in contention for Champions League qualification – only pick up eight points from their last eight matches of the 2024-25 campaign.<\/p>\n

They qualified for the Conference League but were moved into the Europa League for 2025-26 at Crystal Palace’s expense<\/a> after the Eagles were deemed to be in breach of multi-club ownership rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the club’s success on the pitch during Nuno’s time as manager, his relationship with Marinakis became increasingly…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":212527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-212526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115173769050024656","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}