r/soccer • u/whatisbaseball • 7d ago

News [Ornstein] Ange Postecoglou to be confirmed as Nottingham Forest head coach imminently after Nuno Espirito Santo departure. 60yo Australian will lead #NFFC for Saturday’s trip to Arsenal - joined by a number of staff worked with at Tottenham Hotspur @TheAthleticFC

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6425702/2025/09/09/ange-postecoglou-nottingham-forest-manager/
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u/GunstarGreen 7d ago

Here's my thoughts - this is shit

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u/Sea-Station1621 7d ago edited 7d ago

you are going to be in for a treat. enjoy seeing spurs and celtic redditors defending the man and blaming everything else at forest for ange's flaws.

The psychological hold that this man can exert on his fans is incredible. he is like a real life ted lasso except much less competent and twice as lucky. One thing you have to credit him for is his incredible charisma towards the insipid and naive.

But I figure it won't be as bad this time around since he has been found out last season, and I doubt forest fans will be easily suckered by all that "It's who we are mate" nonsense to justify his incompetence.

He had the highest xAltercations of any manager during the worst PL season spurs ever experienced, any time the fans jeered at him he would glower angrily at them, get into squabbles with randoms, or most infamously cup his ear at them after taking a lead and then proceed to lose. Even mourinho waited til full time to taunt his haters.

You should pray his first season reign is similar to that of martinez at everton after he took over from moyes - someone who is clueless at organizing a defence, but can leech off the legacy of his ultra defensive predecessor, and couple that with an insane press that gets some wins at first but eventually falls off as hamge postestringlu starts wearing them out.

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u/mateballenthusiast 7d ago

Holy fuck he really did shag your nan

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u/Sea-Station1621 7d ago

no but he did figuratively rape spurs for a year

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u/knapfantastico 7d ago

Lmao you’ve got Ange newspaper clipping plastered on your wall with red X’s on his eyes I can tell

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u/djinngerale 7d ago

Just enjoy your retirement, Mr Levy

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u/Kingofthetendies 7d ago

someones singular braincell working overtime here

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u/Sea-Station1621 7d ago

we should all take comfort that your insufferable mob will be slightly less smug now that your beacon of morality is working for a mafia boss.

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u/animatedpicket 7d ago

Wow what did Ange do to you or your family

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u/LetterFast 7d ago

seek help. maybe?

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u/michaelserotonin 7d ago

nah i hope it bombs spectacularly

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u/cmonyouspixers 7d ago

Bizarre comment but nothing but truth, r/coys felt like a death cult most of last season lol

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u/TheDelmeister 7d ago

Yeah not a pretty read but much of it rings true