Re: Season 2025/2026
 

So surprised he hasn't gone yet

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

The international break has saved him for now.

The crunch will be the two matches when we return, Chelsea and Porto (Both at Home).

As it stands, I cant see us getting much out of either, or him lasting past them (if we dont).

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Postecoglou sacked surely. 1 win, 2 draws and 5 loses with 30 games to play....

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Yup he's gone :waving:

https://www.nottinghamforest.co.uk/n...lub-statement/

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

He was sacked before we even got back to the car to come home.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Your owner disappeared for the second half nowhere to be seen. I like your owner. He knows where the club needs to be, a vision not an opportunist. I still don't like multiclub ownership though.

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Man City showed Mancini the money. Sean Dyche, I'd kindly decline.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Gazza's available... https://metro.co.uk/2025/10/17/paul-...azza-24458341/
Although hes probably more needed in his current role, helping Bournemouth's homeless.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

One of the weirdest appointments of all time. Wasn't ever going to work.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Not sure the owner knows what he is doing.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Now that he’s unemployed, will Rangers ask Ange if he fancies managing them? Nobody else seems to want to.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Its always a possibility.

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Surely not with his Celtic connections and also they recently sacked his double

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Why sack Nuno for this :nutter:

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Dyche is the sort who can put out the fire before the whole building burns down.

When he's done that though, he'll be moved on and another big name foreign manager will be brought in to start the next fire

It's how football works mate :D

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

l hope you are not developing managerial snobbery.;)

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Well Edu was working with tapas Pulis at Arsenal. May be he likes mid table :no:

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Empty stands :shrug:

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Quote:
The EFL have confirmed Sheffield Wednesday have been deducted 12 points after filing for administration on Friday morning.


I'm sure they'll appeal and get it knocked down to just 4 points . . or does that only happen with 'certain' clubs ;)

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

The club will almost certainly get relegated now, they only had 6 points, so now its -6 points.

That was a boycott, the fan groups have confirmed their botcotts are now over.

They are also still in danger of being wound up by HMRC, due to taxes owed.


In the meantime, a positive start for Dyche at Forest, I hope its a good sign. :)

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Not for this - thats for spending rule breaches I think.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Well . . a Forest fan would know *cough*

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

I think most fans know ;)

In our case the deduction made no difference in the end, we would have still been 17th with the extra 4 points. :D

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

You'd might been 16th if the Everton ones stuck :D

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Good win for Dyche last night whilst Nuno is getting battered again

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Stadium capacity isn't at 100% yet but its still a shiny new stadium to play in :)

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

So happy after todays result :D

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Tonight’s wasn’t bad either. :)

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

I was there for my Birthday, bit of a dull match (Malmo were awful) but good result.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Peps media encounters are hilarious. Reporter just asked youve named an unchanged side why. His response I woke up in the morning and I done this :LOL:

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Happy new year

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Another one. Happy 2026.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

He'll just hop onto the Managerial Roundabout until his next turn at a shit club ;)

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Sacking a manager does not mean the grass will be greener on the other side. :rofl:

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Celtic have had enough too

Come back Martin O'Neill :LOL:

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Martin O'Neill has a proven record.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

He didnt last long ... 8 Matches, 33 Days.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football...s/ckgk9g2500no

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

He also qualifies for a free bus pass ;)

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Well he'll save £6 to and from a destination

:woot:

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Ange is free if either ManU or Celtic want him.

And depending on tomorrow night’s result, either Nuno or Dyche, too.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

They'll need a bigger merry go round if this carries on . . .

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Wow, that was a tough match, but a 7 point gap now, good outcome (from my POV).

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Wow, what a complete idiot that Martinelli is.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

:redcard:

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Makes it look all the more worse than first imagined.

A lot of players help get players back up when grounded. May be universally outlawing putting hands on eachother in a contact sport is the future :erm:

Anywho Fabrizio reports he's out for the season

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Take Arteta :LOL:

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

entitled bunch aren't they :rolleyes:

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

I was watching (as you probably guessed). He actually said it more than once. :)

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Neville and Sky have moved to more reactionary content anyway. They want to upset fans because it drives engagement.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Arsenal fans were convinced yet another club didn't know what they were doing letting go of their stars :rolleyes: the only thing this guy is good at is crying

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

They can have him, dont rate him at all, cost us more than one goal.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Doubt Arsenal want him back as why take on the wage? He is out of contract in the summer.

It's sad. He had a good season for us when he first came in, but he has fallen off hard. He isn't even that old. I am surprised he can't do a job for a mid-table team. There is speculation that his heart isn't in it, he seemed badly impacted by what is happening in Ukraine and has also been spending more time in e-sports.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Why as he is taking you to the promised land.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Man City and Liverpool are taking him to the promised land.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

You need to stop depressing yourself.;)

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Zinchenko off to Ajax by the looks of it, now where's that credit card to pay the flights

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Already done. One one-way ticket to Russia. :naughty:

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:rolleyes:

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After the performance tonight, he can take the whole bloody team with him. Absolutely dire.

I really feel sorry for the fans who paid to go to Portugal to watch that. They should get their money back from Marinakis.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

It was obvious against Wrexham that the second string (fringe) players are just useless, yet he played them again tonight - and they were useless again.

There were more Forest fans than home fans due to the weather, and for their efforts they got a performance that was truely dreadful.

Starting to wonder how good Dyche really is as a manager, terrible team pick, which resulted in a predictably poor performance.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Why did Nottingham Forest send back Douglas Luiz to Juventus?

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Presumably because the manager didnt rate him much.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

He was decent at Villa. His presence won him the attention. Villa have strengthened with Tammy Abraham too.

https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2026/jan...raham-signing/

I wonder how close Villa will get to the top. Imagine Villa had a dreadful start to the season too.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Because he has a muscle condition which limits his fitness probably

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

While he might’ve been good at Villa before, his fitness was not that good and part of the deal with Juve was to sign him after a certain number of games.

I get the impression that Dyche put his foot down and overruled a poor Edu decision.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Cry baby has left the building :woot:

a bit more about the transfer...
https://www.telegraaf.nl/sport/voetb...127597019.html

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

No idea what the "cry baby" reference is about, but glad hes no longer with Forest.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Watford managers falling off . . and back on . . the roundabout :rofl:

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

They occasionally last longer with us...


Although we could do much worse than Dyche and have already done this season.


Nobody would be given the time Ferguson had at Utd these days - not even at Utd. They probably would be in a much better situation if they had kept Moyes for a few years given they were on the decline anyway. Maybe Arsenal if they had kept Emery (given what he has done at villa) would have worked out better than sacking him for Arteta, although Arteta hasn't done badly it took them a few years to become challengers in the league, and it seems Emery could have done that too.


Although the two we have sacked were justifiable (Nuno for his behaviour, and Ange for well simply being terrible) it seems that most of the time now a manager doesn't get the time to build without the threat of the sack and often the first sign of bad results the clubs pull the trigger on them.


I don't like spurs but there's already been talk this season of them sacking Frank which also seems silly to me because 2 years of Ange can't be undone in months. He had time at Brentford away from the spotlight to build a team and get it promoted and the organisation both on and off the field took years to get in place (quite a bit was the club). If the club is on board with the manager and want him to repeat then he needs time.


Going back to Utd it was clear at the end of the Ferguson years they were in decline, Ferguson was also good at organisation off the field so they had replacements lined up and towards the end this didn't happen so well, Moyes needed the time to sort those issues out as well, but they just chopped around various managers some of them being the best out there (LvG, Mourinho) and none of them did anything because the club needed more. I thought Watford usually got away with it because they managed to get similar managers for the squad and playing style, when the Pozzos came in and got rid of Dyche for Zola he lasted just over a season, then they went up in 2014-5 with 4 managers, they had 3 the last time they went down from the EPL and since then now looking for their 8th manager. I don't think they have really had any lasting more than 2 years. It's clearly not working these days and why would anyone let alone a manager in work go there?

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Forest put in their place by Leeds tonight

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Not really, Leeds had 14 shots, 5 on target, Forest had 16 shots, 6 on target.
Possession wise Leeds had slightly more (56%) - thats not unusual for a home team.
Forest had twice as many corners (10 v 5), they had more chances, but didnt take them.

By the time they finally scored, it was too late to salvage anything. :(

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Emery wouldn't have done it at Arsenal. The team largely regressed under him to the point that he eventually got fired after we conceded something like 30 shots to Watford, having lost a CL qualification from a good league position in the previous season when we lost game after game in the run-in.

It wasn't entirely his fault; the club was a mess. We had a poor squad and a toxic dressing room with constant leaks coming from the club, players turning up when they wanted for training and even before a match and generally just treating the entire club as an excuse to have a fun time.

Emery didn't have the man-management, strength of personality or even the leeway with the club to take on the dressing room. Arsenal eventually profited from his failure because it allowed the club to hit rock bottom, which gave Arteta permission to come in and clean house. Everyone with a bad attitude was gone, and the club supported him. Ozil? Gone. Aubameyang turning up to the NLD late? Benched. Did it again? Gone.

Arsenal needed a squad rebuild and a change in culture. Emery wasn't the man to do that. I think he does well at clubs just below league challengers that have a good structure around them, which is why I think he would fail at Real Madrid if those rumours are true.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Nobody understood Wenger when he came in why was Emery different? For me it's down to the ownership. Nobody would test Hill-Wood.

Imagine giving Wenger a billion pound to spend. Or even Emery.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Sacking happy owner strikes again!!!!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football...s/c98p80g568do

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

According to Gabby Agbonlahor on talksport, Sean Dyche has the biggest win % under owner Evangelos Marinakis.

I can't believe their going after Vitor Pereira. Sean Dyche would have kept them up. Vitor Pereira won't kick them on. Disaster incoming.

How's Edu getting on :no:

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Indeed complete and utter madness..

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

oh the insane and utterly confounding ideas of a football club owner in the Premier League

'we need a better manager, let's get someone who was also a failure elsewhere'


*disclaimer
Almost all managers on the merry-go-round have been failures elsewhere :D

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

It's a self-fulfilling statistic - don't give people long enough to achieve success, bin them, and then hire from the pool of managers that other people have done the same to...

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Are you getting politics mixed up with football, or is it almost identical? ;)
:rofl:

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

This is true, although not over many games overall.

I dont believe Dyche would have kept us up, and recent performances dont support this theory.
He started well enough, and has done well in European matches, but not so well in the FA Cup or recent PL matches.

Reports are he didnt have the players support much. We seem to spend far too much time just passing the ball around with little idea what to do with it.
Woeful finishing as well (against Leeds & Wolves) - of course, thats not exactly his fault, but it hasnt helped.

Still, I cant understand why go for Vitor Pereira, his record with Wolves this season was dreadful. I cant see how its an improvement.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Sean Dyche has shown he can grind it out. That's what I meant to say. At the business end of the season.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

:LOL:

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Yes, please.

He’s been a complete disaster. Totally overrated and in my view the primary cause of why Forest are where they are. His signings have mostly been poor. Quite why Marinakis thought he would be an asset is beyond me.

Get rid, and give the manager the decision on signings based on what he needs to fit the style of play he wants.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

A battle I hope he loses, sooner rather than later.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

If he keeps getting rid of managers there won't be any more managers left to employ.;)

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

He sucks. His time at Arsenal was PR stunt which fed into "top super fans" hands. Berta who replaced him is more competent.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

:rofl:

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Good. :)

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Man City aren't catching Arsenal now. The league is done.

I'll be honest I didn't want Arteta to be the man who ended Arsenals wait for the league. I don't like the guy. He was a cheap bit of business as a player. But a billion pound does buy you the league.. who knew buying Xabi Alonso would have been the smarter bit of business :shrug:

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

A bit strange coming from a Arsenal supporter and given its over two decades ago since Arsenal arrived at the promised land.:D

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Well congratulations to Forest for rescuing their European tie tonight.
TBH, I'm not sure if its a blessing or not, it seems to be distracting the team from their premiership survival battle.
Not attracting much fan backing either, they had to reduce ticket prices for the last home tie by more than 50% just to get people to come.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

You folk looked very strong considering many changes were made. The opposition gifted you the win in the end, poor pens. But I'm happy to see another team representing. All good. :tu:

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

True, given they missed all three of theirs.
Based on current scores, it looks like we'll be playing Porto (again).

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Let’s hope the score against Porto is the same as before.

Really chuffed for Ryan Yates. Many said he wouldn’t hack it in the PL. Now he’s a goal scorer in Europe.

I’m hoping that Chris Wood will be fit enough to play soon. Forest have definitely missed his presence and goals.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Personally l hope Forest stay up although l am not a fan of their owner.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

City turned up. Arsenal couldn't get going. Well done. :clap:

Oops 16k posts :woot:

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Strange match, it was like Arsenal just werent interested in winning.

Elsewhere in London (much to Arsenal Fans joy I expect) a good (and vital) win for Forest at Spurs.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

I hoping Spurs stay-up

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

I don't. Clown club.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Chelsea have sacked their manager after just three months in charge.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football...s/c9d4w8032vno

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

He talks too much. Like Amorim.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

He should have never been appointed in the first place..

The trouble is Chelsea want a patsy rather then a manager who will shake the whole club up.

Re: Season 2025/2026
 

Well that was a first half I never imagined, 4 - 0, incredible. :D