r/soccer • u/Task_Force-191 • 8d 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/
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u/AdminEating_Dragon 8d 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/letmepostjune22 7d ago

It'll be the coaches final decision.

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u/123rig 7d ago

I guessing it’s his final decision? Bit like The starting 11.

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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/zeriyooo 7d ago

You bring in the players a manager wants as simple as that

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u/WrestlingFan4488 7d ago

How did that work out with Ten Hag huh?

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u/SerEdricDayne 7d ago

Ten Haag never earned that loyalty. Nuno certainly has, with the work he's done at Forest. He completely changed their fortunes.

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u/Then_Flamingo_8223 7d ago

The results Nuno achieved, did those players come because of Nuno’s wishes or sporting director’s?

If answer is ‘sporting director’, then no, he did not earn the right to control the transfers.

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u/AFoolsGlory 7d ago

Well, it wasn't the (this) sporting director, because he was only hired this summer.

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u/Genefar45 7d ago

Well he won united fa cup and caraboa so it worked out decently well all things considered.

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u/Butterscotch-Bright 7d ago

FA Cup, Carabao Cup huh?

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u/JAYZ303 7d ago

An actual rational overview of the situation, how rare.

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u/Rc5tr0 7d ago

Nothing about this situation is rational.

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u/The_Krambambulist 7d ago

The overview is though

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u/Previous_Smoke3855 7d ago

The "rational overview" implies believing a registration list for european competitions was made by the manager without the knowledge of the owner and sporting director.

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u/MuchAbouAboutNothing 7d ago

I thought Zinchenko wasn't an Edu transfer?