Football Season 2025/2026 - Page 6

denphone · 18-09-2025, 12:48

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Originally Posted by Damien

Concerns at Forest?

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

thenry · 18-09-2025, 13:25

He won a trophy

denphone · 18-09-2025, 13:36

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Originally Posted by thenry

He won a trophy

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

**Paul** · 18-09-2025, 15:07

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Originally Posted by denphone

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

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.

nffc · 18-09-2025, 15:32

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Originally Posted by Paul

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.

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...

Carth · 18-09-2025, 16:05

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

funny old game, as someone once said

thenry · Yesterday, 19:25

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

**Paul** · Yesterday, 19:52

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.

nffc · Yesterday, 21:49

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Originally Posted by Paul

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.

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.

**Paul** · Yesterday, 21:58

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Originally Posted by nffc

That boss won the FA Cup I think.

Well I cant see that repeating itself.

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Originally Posted by nffc

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.

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.

nffc · Today, 08:03

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Originally Posted by Paul

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.

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.