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Time for a new topic for the new season.


First item - Forest manager Nuno Espirito Santo has signed a new 3 year deal to stay at the club.

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3 more years of madri

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:shocked: defy everything CR7

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Obviously a short lovers tiff.

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Woohoo, well done England U21's, winners again. :)

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Apparently Liverpool are selling Harvey Elliott :nutter:

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He wants more playing time apparently and not sure Slot is a massive fan of his. I think they should keep him but if they do sell there needs to be a buy back clause, I think he's a really good player.

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Not to Arsenal that is for sure.;)

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No bother, Arteta doesn't want winners anyway

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His transfer policy is questionable that is for sure.

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A second rate Xabi Alonso.

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Well Real Madrid will define him.

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Incredibly sad news this morning to learn of the death of the Liverpool player Diogo Jota and his brother, André.:(

https://www.theguardian.com/football...d-28-car-crash

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Absolutely awful, my heart goes out to his and his brothers family.

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so young, rest in peace siblings.

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There were rumours during his absence from the squad but nobody was reporting anything other than the clubs mouthpiece of an injury. Arsenal let him leave out of contract because of contract differences.

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Greed! has come around screaming karma. Multi club ownership should be outlawed.

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Lovely

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Chelsea FIFA world cup winners. Marescas getting a tune out of them which is worrying.

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My brother will be happy.:)

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:tu:

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Adding Isak would be unreal Den :naughty:

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Yes he would be a great signing but l would say its more unlikely then likely currently.

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You also said Liverpool wouldn't win the league ;)

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We got lucky as Arsenal can't score, Chelsea seem to have a hundred players, Man City must have got infected by Man Uniteds neverending downhill spiral.;)

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Nope. Arteta is not Xabi Alonso. Sadly we went shopping at a certain supermarket and now wonder why it's all gone wrong.

Pep didn't want to disrupt a winning machine. They could have foreseen what was to unfold.

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We'll pass.

Although Sesko for £90m and having £60m left over from Isak seems way too good to turn our noses up at.

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150mil for a 60m injury prone player is crazy but Newcastle gambled with him so well done.

Sheshko :LOL: all these super fans were convincing themselves he's good. You'd hope he's a Giroud.

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Marc Guehi has 12 months remaining on his Crystal Palace contract and Liverpool are keen to get him signed up. Nunez is going for decent money :shocking: you reckon you'll retain the title if Isak gets signed too Den?

Sesko has chosen Man Utd. Newcastle could be left vulnerable. A chat with Eddie Howe will only go so far, it's the champions knocking on the door.

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Its pretty hard to retain the title as its a very competitive league where the top clubs are still spending huges amount of cash on new players.

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Fear not. Groceries isn't TH14 ;)

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The rules are the rules. Fair enough if you've found loopholes but this is admitting foul play then giving a reason. You have either broken the rules or you haven't.

Greedy bunch in my opinion. I reckon Palace are lucky to still be in a European competition. Go win it...

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:D

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It was never going to be successful - CAS are there to ensure UEFA have applied the existing rules correctly, not whether they did the right thing.


The whole MCO thing has gotten a bit silly to the point they might as well just scrap any semblance of control they might have over it, and just allow it without all of this blind trust stuff, and then just keep an eye for anything which does sound unsporting, but none of that is what CAS were asked to do.


Palace were in a MCO and they took no steps to move Textor's shares into a blind trust by the deadline, so they were not eligible to be in the same competition as Lyon, and so as the lower placed side were demoted. It is as simple as that.

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Rules are rules unless its Man City or Chelsea.;)

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:tu: Just bracing myself for the 115 whitewash in a decade or two :rolleyes:

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Important win today :woot: I don't think Arsenal will win the league but it's still important to pick up big wins :tu:

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I went to an equally important opening win. :D

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We were on it, nice to see us not need to counter attack.


Plus with the 2 new lads already signed and the other 2/3 who are apparently close, all attacking reinforcements, should give us even more options.


Just as well because our issue last season was breaking teams down who sat back and gave us the ball. Even Exeter managed it.

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:rofl: Grimsby :LOL:

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Yeah, I had it on tonight, I thought they had blown it, well done in the end. :)

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I wanted to watch Benfica vs Fenerbahçe. I'm glad I couldn't bring myself to changing channel. Sky had that in crystal clear UHD too :D It was a night of dreams ;)

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Still loving it


They are out before we are in it

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Yeah, not so keen on Swansea away though. :(

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Ha ha, I see in the european draw we will play Malmo again, 46 years after beating them in the european cup final. :)

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We beat them on away goals in 95-6 as well when we last played in a European competition. We were the last British side in Europe that year.


The next year we got relegated

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Just look and admire how Liverpool are moving. :)

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It turns out this match will actually be on my Birthday. :)

Hopefully they play a lot better than last Sunday. :erm:

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:D:D

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You aren't as active on here as you once was Denphone :confused:

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Health related mainly with myself and other family members, remember l am a old geezer now.:shocked:

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Best wishes to you and family :)

I'm very happy cry baby Zinchenko has left. Its a shame its not an obligation to buy but hey ho hes your problem now Forest even if it's just for a season.

https://www.skysports.com/football/n...-international

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What's the issue with him? He'll have to dislodge Neco from the team anyway...

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You must be happy with the signings you have made this summer.

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He's shit. He'll go wondering. I don't know how he got such a wage hike compared to his Man City days. Mugs at Arsenal again thinking a big club has mistakenly let it's star leave :dunce:

Nope. Real Madrid, the biggest football club on the planet generally don't make many mistakes. Arsenal fans are convinced they have something in Martin Odegaard :no: He ain't winning Arsenal a title or he'd have done it at Real Madrid :dunce: Eze signing shows great depth.

The only plus is watching the sweet prince Calafiori grrr.. :LOL:

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In fairness he is competing with both Aina and Williams who played most of last season, both are about equally good LBs as RBs, and we also signed a lad from Juventus who can cover all 3 defensive positions, and a 4th Botafago player who is also a LB. So he will need to fight for his place especially given the others are our signings and not just on loan

Alex Moreno, who we loaned from Villa, was Ok for a bit and then barely played after Xmas.

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He won't compete he's a cry baby that thrives off sympathy.

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Future career as a celebrity on all the shit game shows then :D

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:(

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football...s/c2en2xnpvlno

I dont think the thrashing at home last week helped.

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The story has been updated now - officially Sacked.

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:LOL: prostitute appointed

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Football, the Government, and heads of business.

Three areas where failures are welcome to come and try again . . . on the usual mega salaries

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It's the taking part that counts, all part of the get along gang.

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It's strange, it does look like he fell out with Marinakis.

He did a good job, and this is a strange decision just for football reasons. Postecoglou is a weird fit as his style is quite different, much less pragmatic and defensive, and it's not clear the Forest team is set up to play his football. Are you really going to go from a team that sits back to hit on the break to a team that presses high up the pitch? Do you have the defenders to recover balls knocked in behind? Or will Ange change his football?

Kind of annoying we (Arsenal) have you next, as I have no idea what to expect. Still, will enjoy seeing the Postecoglou song again.
:D

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Song? He's won in Europe :rolleyes:

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He almost relegated Spurs, I guess we'll see where this goes, but I'm not a fan of him atm.

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So? You still sing songs about the opposition.

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So? <removed>.

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We might at least attack teams now

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It could (i.e will) leave you open at the back, though. If he plays his normal football.

His system also only kind of works if you have faster centre-backs that can recover balls in behind the high line quickly.

We'll see, it might be he does change his football and players seem to like him, so you may get an early boost as well.

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Well that was fun!

Forest didn't look good, but our attack looked great!

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Aina got injured playing for Nigeria and of course Zinchenko can't play (and for some reason they didn't want to start Savona) so we had Neco playing RB (when he's been playing LB) and then Morato (who's a CB) at LB and it showed.

Once Murillo had gone off injured and then Morato had gone to CB it looked a bit more settled, but then your player managed to score a worldie (they don't get stopped like, ever) and it was only going one way ever but that cemented it.


Just goes to show that Arsenal - who are a top side but haven't ever really been rich in resources - managed to bring in Eze, Madueke, Gyokeres at a significant cost whilst for a PL side outside the big clubs spending 30-40m on a player still feels like a lot.

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Don't rate your future on CF Damien ;)

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Well that sucks I was looking forward to seeing Isak :(

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Concerns at Forest?

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Yes.

I wasnt impressed by his appointment, I have seen nothing to change that view.

Today was an example of "how to throw away a match".

Why do frigging managers have to mess with teams when they are winning. :mad:

2 - 0 (despite giving the ball away far too often), half time comes, team messed with, poor 2nd half, schoolboy defending, game lost. :(

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Why get rid of a manager who was a success and replace him with a manager who was a failure at Spurs.:(

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He won a trophy :confused:

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That does not make him a decent potential long term manager of Nottingham Forest.

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Nuno and the Chairman fell out (over transfers afaik) so his days were always numbered.

Why the rush to install a failure ? I do not know.

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They presumably want more attacking coherence than just countering.


Nuno presumably couldn't deliver that so they got in a manager who is better at attacking.


Don't think a lot can be read into last night. There were a lot of changes and probably 2 players who won't be used much if at all (John Victor/Willy Boly) this season and between them they were responsible for a lot of the goals...

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typical owners wanting something new and better, and prepared to sacrifice everything by employing a cast off.

funny old game, as someone once said

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I see Osama Shitchenko started and completed 90 whole minutes for relegation battlers, mayte. Xhaka on the other hand got MOTM :woot:

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Another loss, every game just says bad choice atm.
Five games without a win is apparently the worst start for a new (Forest) boss since the 19th century.

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That boss won the FA Cup I think.


Seem to recall a couple of years back a chap called Iraola didn't win for a while either.


Nuno dropped the club in it with his antics. At the same time the style wasn't going to carry on working. Something has to change and the style of play won't click overnight.


We aren't playing too badly, but the results are not coming. If they continue to not come, then I can't see how it can last.

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Well I cant see that repeating itself.

Poor defending, again, and unlike the first half the other day, poor in attack.
Woods should have scored, but other than that, we barely tested their keeper.

I'm glad your optimistic, I see little to be hopeful about atm, just a relegation battle. :(

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The poor defending was a factor in the last few months under Nuno (who let's not forget was also partly to blame for the current situation as it seems more he engineered his own dismissal). It was April 1 vs Man Utd the last time we kept a clean sheet.


Poor defending when Murillo and Aina are both out injured means we're relying on players who weren't part of the immediate starting picture to fill the gaps. Especially at full back we don't really have the long term cover as the next options are Savona and Zinchenko.


At least we are creating chances to score, eventually they will start going in.


The style of play is in transition because we can't really keep on playing low block and Ange has to do this (as would anyone else) whilst playing midweek as well as weekends.


The lack of wins is concerning, and will get more so as it goes on, but there are still over 30 matches left to play. When we lost the first 4 and ended up promoted should be enough recent memory to show a bad start can be recovered from.


How many times last season did we concede first and go on to draw or win? I don't remember too many. Most of the time we scored first and then shut up shop often bringing on Morato and going to a back 3.

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This club is a hypocrite. Emery was said to have communication issues and was sent packing.

:LOL:

The light bulb ended up at Man City. And the blaring of never walk alone gifted Liverpool with the league. :rolleyes:

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Being a football manager was so simple when just throwing a hair dryer had the right effect :D

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And the hair dryer hasn't won a league title ever since retirement. Don't fix what isn't broke :Yes:

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Anyone know where to print off P45s?

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Prostitute only subbed 2 Joey's :LOL: Your owner was sitting next to Rafa Benítez at the Emirates yesterday :erm: probably by chance but hey it could be worse :D

I was watching Palace then Villa. Well done them for making a real effort.

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Utter shambles tonight, waste of money.
By the time they scored the penalty, there was almost no one left to cheer, and those that were didnt have the desire.
Time for the boss to admit it got it wrong, and sort it out.

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I said the appointment didn't make sense at the time, and it makes even less sense now.

Why fire a manager who did so well last season for one who got a much bigger club 17th? Why go from someone known for attacking football in a team that was well-drilled defensively and liked to hit teams on the counter?

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The idea makes sense, but there's too much which hasn't happened under Ange. The players don't look like they know what they're supposed to be doing, the fans aren't happy with it, and the results aren't happening.


Unsurprising since he's had about 50 minutes out of our best centre back, our right back was injured before he came, our new left back is also now injured, and we have a player with muscular edema on loan whose minutes were being managed by his old club, who has basically also played 45 mins and is now injured. None of this is Ange's fault, nor is the fact he had no preseason and has to get the players working in a new style (and more importantly, probably can't coach them in the old system anyway).


Nuno wasn't sacked for results, it was for his behaviour behind the scenes towards Edu particularly, and in the media interviews. If Marinakis was going to sack him for performances he would have done that after the West Ham game rather than wait about a week to do it. He moaned about new signings and then didn't play any of the ones he got apart from one but that was because we only have one winger from last season.


The countering had been found out. No clean sheets since April 1st, including the run in last season, where we dropped from 3rd to 7th. We should be in the conference league but got pushed up because Palace didn't check their emails. In the FA Cup Exeter showed everyone how to play against Forest by putting all the players behind the play and giving them the ball and asking them to break it down. We could only play on counters when teams were stretched and had sent too much forwards so they stopped doing that.


As for Spurs last season, they had a lot of injuries including a lot of defenders out at once, and played a lot of matches to go with it including winning the Europa League. So not sure how much can be read into that. The season before they came 5th under the same manager, what is more successful?


Either way, he doesn't have any more time to get results now given our next few matches he isn't going to pull a win out of the hat. Probably no-one will so it's about time for a new manager to get used to the squad before it's too late. Ange will probably get the Newcastle match but then if EM is serious about achieving something this season we need a replacement in the break. Dyche would be a good shout...

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Yes, but the season they finished 5th saw them fall off dramatically in the latter half of the season. Essentially, teams adapted to his tactics that saw them start very strongly, and he had no other plan. That form continued into the next season.

As for winning in Europe, they were facing teams weaker than most Premier League teams. I think their budget was more than that of all the teams they faced up until they faced Man United, where they managed to beat the worst United side in a long time without a shot on target.

It's a good achievement to win a trophy, but the league is a better assessment of a manager. This record is objectively poor in the league.

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Now that Rangers have sacked Russell Martin, do you think they might be persuaded to offer the job to Ange?

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We can always hope. :D

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Just bin him anyway.


The worst thing would be that Marinakis bins off Ange and appoints Martin...

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Well he's saved us some money.
My wife, myself, and our nephew have all decided not to bother with the Porto match (£55 each).

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Please please don't sack him until after Luton get a new manager ;)