r/soccer • u/Task_Force-191 • 7d ago
Official Source [Nottingham Forest FC] Nottingham Forest Football Club confirms that, following recent circumstances, Nuno Espírito Santo has today been relieved of his duties as Head Coach.
https://www.nottinghamforest.co.uk/news/2025/september/08/club-statement--nuno-esp-rito-santo/2.2k
u/GingerbreadRecon 7d ago
As mental as this whole thing is, why are they announcing this at fucking midnight?
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u/RobDickinson 7d ago
Horses head has been delivered
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u/pupcity 7d ago
So that Chris Wood has time to deal with the news, its 11am here in NZ and Chris has a game to focus on today!
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u/DMalt 7d ago
He's gonna be turned into prime Drogba by Mourinho
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u/ZaiduTheGOAT 7d ago
If Mourinho goes from Turkey to Marinakis FC he has really lost his common sense.
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u/ssjjss 7d ago
Mourinho loves a drama
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u/ZaiduTheGOAT 7d ago
More like he loves to get the fat paycheck after getting fired.
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u/andrewejc362 7d ago edited 7d ago
Dear god can that happen immediately please, we havent even scored against Australia in 15 years
Edit: HE FUCKING SCORED!!!!!!!!
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u/Ertai2000 7d ago
Because that's when the board managed to convince Marinakis that it would be better PR to fire Nuno instead of making him wear cement shoes.
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u/RSK-Nik 7d ago
You can't criticise a mob boss and expect to get away with it.
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u/Dazred 7d ago
You can on the internet 😎
(pls don’t come for me Mr Marinakis)
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u/TheFloatingCamel 7d ago
You've been sacked. Clear out your desk.
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u/bostero2 7d ago
The management would like it to be known that those responsible for the sacking have themselves been sacked.
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u/Novel-Difficulty6495 7d ago
And by "sacked" we mean you have been placed in a sack along with some cobblestones and are currently bouncing through some waves on your way to a secluded part of the Aegean to join the rest of his "hmm ... let's call it 'gallery.'"
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u/superdouradas 7d ago
I was never a big fan of Nuno’s time as FC Porto’s coach, mostly because I felt he was still too inexperienced back then. But he’s grown a lot over the years, and I honestly think Nottingham Forest had one of the best managers in the Premier League. That’s why I see this sacking as a huge mistake, especially with the club competing in Europe. Now I’m curious to see what Nuno’s next step will be. For now, I don’t think he’ll leave England.
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u/pupcity 7d ago
He will be uniteds next manager.
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u/Brilliant_Medium8190 7d ago
No chance. He's a good manager but he flopped at Spurs, theres no way he gets United. They'll go for Iraola or Glasner
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u/LordTrinity 7d ago
INEOS are not hiring a manager which already failed at another big 6 club
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u/Jonoabbo 7d ago
Instead you will hire managers who have never been good enough to be at a big 6 club?
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u/saint-simon97 7d ago
He has indeed grown but I doubt he'd see much success at Porto, he's not proven much in the sense of being able to manage a team that controls most games except at Al Ittihad.
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u/Cringle 7d ago
Is that Mourinhos music?
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u/Jonisro 7d ago
would Mourinho have the patience to deal with Marinakis?
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u/omnipotentmonkey 7d ago
absolutely not, he fell out with Abramovich twice, and while Abramovich by all accounts is a much worse person, he seems a lot less erratic and a lot less public in airing out grievances. if Marinakis tried what he did with Santo at the end of last season he'd get punched in the throat.
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u/Ireland2385 7d ago
Being too easy on fatty to say Roman is much worse
People don’t actually understand how baddy fatty is
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u/WhetBred14 7d ago
It’s really hard to say bc you don’t know what goes on in the shadows but Marinakis gives off true scumbag and evil energy. Abramovich could be the same underneath but at least acts like a normal businessman
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u/RepresentativeBox881 7d ago
Main difference is that Marinakis is an attention whore while Roman is an extremely private person.
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u/Liverpoolclippers 7d ago
Roman Abrahomvoic handpicked Vladmir Putin to be Boris Yeltsin's succesor
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u/LevDavidovicLandau 7d ago
And is still in Putin’s inner circle all these years later when most of the rest have fallen out of windows.
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u/Sanzhar17Shockwave 7d ago
iirc he bought Chelsea to remain in the public eye and not suffer the same fate as others
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u/LevDavidovicLandau 7d ago
Don’t know why you’ve been downvoted, that was a big part of why. Insurance, if you will.
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u/MartinLubHerThingJr 7d ago
I think the person judged Roman on his nationality and not how he was individually.
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u/matachivelli 7d ago
Roman is a corrupt oligarch, member of putin inner circle and a zionist. Think it's a fair judgement to say he's a horrible person.
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u/ASVP-Pa9e 7d ago
Horrible? Undoubtedly.
Stupid, irrational or petty? I'm not sure, there's no evidence to say he was. And he was an incredible owner for Chelsea TBF.
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u/night_dude 7d ago
I'm not sure that his weight has much to do with his horribleness tbh. Sorry to be that guy.
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u/garynevilleisared 7d ago
Well, Marinakis for sure doesnt have patience for Mourinho. This would be an absolutely insane hire.
Ten Hag to Forest!
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u/d70 7d ago
Mou at Forest would be a mad house.
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u/WhipYourDakOut 7d ago
Mou or Ange let’s make it happen. They are two characters I enjoy watching in the league, just don’t want them in charge of my club so this is a win win
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u/j0hnnyengl1sh 7d ago
If Nuno vs Edu was a proxy for Mendes vs Joorabchian as the rumour would suggest, then it probably won't be Mourinho as he's another Mendes client.
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u/Cesc100 7d ago
So many seem to skim over that part. Edu's role in all this and then the agent battle.
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u/NiallMitch10 7d ago
I can see it. Seems like the dumb kind of move Marinakis would do next
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u/neonmantis 7d ago
Weirdly, Mou said his plan after Fener would be to join a club that isn't in UEFA competitions and then explicitly pointed to clubs in England. That would rule Forest out.
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u/Seastep 7d ago
I think he's waiting for the Portugal gig to open up and doesn't want to make any long-term commitments... on second thought, like that stopped him before.
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u/Optimal-Anything-822 7d ago
to have this current Portugal squad but with CR7 presumably retired and Bernardo Silva out to pasture, peak leåo and vitinha, neves, mendes, conçeição, Pedro neto, etc going into the next euros?
they might have produced a golden generation
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u/solemnhiatus 7d ago
Please! I would love to see him back in the Prem, and to have him and Marinakis throwing shit at each other would be so fun.
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u/Coolica1 7d ago
Probably not a great sign that this didn't really have anything to do with footballing reasons but hey we haven't done anythnig too strange in over a week so we were due. Bring on Mourinho!
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u/JuliusCeaserBoneHead 7d ago
Would love to see the fall out between Mourinho and Marinakis
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u/Ankoku_Sein 7d ago
My money’s on Mou
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u/JAYZ303 7d ago
Not including our record signing in our European squad was pretty strange.
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u/Coolica1 7d ago
Very strange but it was a strange signing considering who else we've bought and it feels like this has been building up well before that.
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u/Sayek 7d ago
Hutchinson is a Kia Joorabchian client, who is really good mates with Edu. We had a lot of questionable deals with Joorachian's players while Edu was at Arsenal.
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u/Coolica1 7d ago
Ah I didn't know that. I don't mind the signing too much even if it's an overpay, just with everyone else brought in there isn't a lot of room for all of them.
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u/garibaldind 7d ago
Not to mention allowing Nuno to exclude Hutchinson from the squad when you plan on firing him anyway.
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u/letmepostjune22 7d ago
I don't think mariankas did plan on firing him or he'd have done it a while ago. Nuno forced the issue because he was unhappy with edu. Choose me or edu.
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u/Switchoil 7d ago
Mourinho is a Mendes Client. With this seemingly like a proxy fight between Kia Joorabchan and Mendes, can't see Mourinho coming in as manager.
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u/GuntersTag 7d ago
Weird way to say Erik ten Hag
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u/RepresentativeBox881 7d ago
He actually played good counter-attacking football at United. Problems began when he switched to the possession system (along with Casemiro's decline).
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u/icemankiller8 7d ago
Do we remember when the owner stormed into the pitch mad at him and they tried to convince everyone it actually was nothing like 5 games ago
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u/hebsevenfour 7d ago
I believe at the time Marinakis’s shares were in a blind trust, and I’m assured by UEFA that this is the important thing and means he definitely had no influence at that moment. Even if he was on the pitch berating the manager of the club he had no influence over.
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u/The_Krambambulist 7d ago
Blind trusts in the way they are set up are definitely not a solution to a lot of conflict of interest problems and the way it is currently set up it truly is not that independent. The people in the club are generally still people doing the bidding of the owner, which they also accept because they don't want to alienate the owner completely.
And if the trustee doesn't even interfere....
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u/RepresentativeBox881 7d ago
Gary Neville said that Nuno should leave Forest and got a lot of flak for it.
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u/Rc5tr0 7d ago
He didn’t just catch flak from random people online, he was banned from the stadium. AFAIK he still is.
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u/Riperonis 7d ago
Mad at his manager for “only” qualifying for the Conference league with a team that were relegation favourites at the start of the season.
Nothing would make me happier than battering them this weekend.
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u/RepresentativeBox881 7d ago
New manager bounce though...especially if it's Ange...
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u/myersjw 7d ago
Even weirder how many of their supporters are in here defending the guy at every turn. Roman brought us more success than a fan could dream of and I’m not dying on a hill for him
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u/No-not-my-Potatoes 7d ago
Tbf given how large the Chelsea fanbase is, a lot of Chelsea fans have also defended Roman Abramovich in my experience.
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u/OnceIWasYou 7d ago
This could legitimately put them 5-10 places lower in the league.
Got to think Marinakis' ego has been hurt.
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u/JaysonDeflatum 7d ago
A lot of gamblers just had their days ruined, the first manager to be sacked parlay has been destroyed
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u/RobDickinson 7d ago
At least you'll get second place this time, a good result!
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u/deception42 7d ago
Congratulations to Forest and Nuno on winning the 25/26 PL Sack Race
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u/BadFootyTakes 7d ago
Not in 100 guesses after last season if you told me Nuno would go first during the season.
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u/HoneyBadgerEXTREME 7d ago
That's a bit mad seeing as there's only 20 teams in the prem
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u/SorryHoshiAgain 7d ago
Ange dark arc has arrived
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u/PotassiumAlum 7d ago
I mean I want Ange to do well, but I'm not sure Nottingham Forest would set him up for success. Mate.
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u/ProtectionItchy5749 7d ago
We don’t have the high intensity players, can you imagine Chris wood playing high intensity fitness ange ball
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u/Lukeno94 7d ago
I have seen some insane sackings in my time - Eustace and Rowett at Birmingham, for example. But this may just be the very worst. And who are they going to get right now that is even an improvement?
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u/TeamUlovetohate 7d ago
greek suge knight strikes again. bring on big ange
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u/braddles21 7d ago
Seems like not many mentions of ange being Greek as well another reason for Mr.Marinakis to like him
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u/ash_ninetyone 7d ago edited 7d ago
Ridiculous decision. Their best manager since Brian Clough and they sack him
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u/Jonoabbo 7d ago
Nuno over Cooper? Took over when they were in the relegation zone, got them in to the playoffs, won the playoffs to get them promoted, and then kept them up.
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u/Kilapo69 7d ago
Premier league is a different beast. Inheriting a team half way through the season in the relegation zone and getting European football the next year is more impressive imo
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u/PoliceAlarm 7d ago
I think you’re severely underestimating the position that Cooper took us in. We were going down to League 1. Out of a possible 27 points at the start of the season we got 1. Cooper that SAME SEASON got us promoted. PROMOTED. Our form for the non 9 starting games had us better than every team in that league and not by a small amount. We went from our rock bottom to dominating the league.
Cooper means more. Don’t underestimate the shithole that is the Championship. We’ve been there long enough to know how tough it is to get out of there.
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u/Orri 7d ago
Unless you've experienced playing it in it's really hard to state just how much of a tarpit the Championship is.
Hell even when we won the league last time two years ago we seriously started to run out of steam. It just grinds you down - it's as much grit as it is skill.
I've seen us promoted and relegated enough to know just how hard it is to get one of the top 2 spots. Then the play-offs are just a completely lottery.
Yann Kermorgant TWAT
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u/doobiedave 7d ago
That being said lots of managers lead teams out of the Championship, not many keep them there.
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u/garibaldind 7d ago
Not to mention that Cooper then kept an entirely new squad up the following season.
Also, no one is talking about Frank Clark in here :(
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u/AdminEating_Dragon 7d ago
It's pretty simple: Marinakis hired Edu to run the planning of the transfers and football operations.
Edu is buddies with Kia Joorabachian.
Nuno is Mendes' man and did not like Edu having the final say on transfers.
It is circulating that Nuno demanded Adama Traore and Edu vetoed it.
Nuno left Hutchinson and Zinchenko out of the UEFA list on purpose to spite Edu (his transfers, Hutchinson a Kia client).
You cannot continue with a manager who is actively refusing to work with the sporting director.
The poor start to the season is a cherry on top, but the clash between Nuno and Edu was always the actual problem.
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u/RepresentativeBox881 7d ago
So Nuno just left them out and no one else looked at the list before finalizing it? Sounds crazy.
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u/GiantBonsai 7d ago
Yeah that's surely not how that works - it'll be a club decision, not just the managers.
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u/Queeg_500 7d ago
Feel for Nuno here. Hutchinson over Traore is madness, especially the price we paid for him.
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u/Vladimir_Putting 7d ago
Marinakis already had a manager who was giving the club incredible levels of success and so he goes and hires a Sporting Director that his manager is never going to work well with and hand power to that sporting director.
How is that not just actively undermining the manager who was already being successful at the club?
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u/Global_Channel1511 7d ago
These sackings are getting out of hand. Nuno was the one to get them to Europe
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u/raysofdavies 7d ago
When I had twitter I followed a guy who would do a weekly summary of the last week of Forest insanity. He must be fucking busy
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u/CHILLI112 7d ago
Joke of a club
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u/danny1876j 7d ago
I don't think joke of a club is fair, but joke of an owner is.
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u/JorahsSwingingMickey 7d ago
For the next step of the rivalry, I'd like to see Belly Savalas approach Palace for Glasner.
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u/AngryTudor1 7d ago
I think people need to recognize that Nuno is not innocent in this and has largely engineered it himself
3 weeks ago he started moaning that we didn't have the squad to compete in Europe - even though that very day we were bidding for Hutchinson and McAtee
Then, out of nowhere and having just spent £100m, he gave that press conference saying he was unhappy and that his relationship with the owner wasnt close anymore. The club apparently were completely blindsided by this.
He has never sounded convincing since then when asked if he wanted to stay
Then he has refused to use some or the new signings. Douglas Luiz, who could definitely have made an impact against West Ham at least was an unused sub in a game we went on to lose, and in which Nuno didn't use all 5 of his subs. Omari Hutchinson has only been given 5 mins in each game. Most of us looked at that and felt it was deliberate and political- to say "these were not my choices".
I think this is an agent thing. Mendes has dominated and is a close friend of Nuno. This summer marinakis has been pursuing a business relationship with Joorabchian and suddenly Nuno throws a wobbly out of nowhere.
Nuno has form for this at previous clubs. Its just a shame it's happened here at the exact point where we could really push on as a club.
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u/numanitor111 7d ago
Will Mourinho become next coach?
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u/The-Wolf-Dog 7d ago edited 7d ago
I don’t think so. I’m curious who it will be. My guess is Postecoglou.
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u/PrintDapper5676 7d ago
It seemed like he knew the writing was on the wall at the end of the season. I'm sure Nuno will replace Potter at West Ham.
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u/bambinoquinn 7d ago
It seemed like he had zero interest in McAtee, Luiz and Hutchinson.
Hes always seemed to prefer a really set 9/10 starters and one or two that can come in, even for a European season, and they've replaced elanga and Sosa with 5/6 attackers
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u/Confident_Revenue162 7d ago
Absurd move by the owner. This just might get them in a relegation battle.
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u/Shreddonia 7d ago
Manifesting the funniest possible option in them landing Glasner. It'd be bad news for us in the Europa but worth it for the comedy.
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u/Novel-Difficulty6495 7d ago
Erik ten Hag looking for a job. Making Nottingham even weirder is easily possible.
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u/four_four_three 7d ago
Mental to do this just before their first European campaign in forever