{"id":134361,"date":"2025-09-11T04:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/134361\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T04:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:02:09","slug":"ange-postecoglou-appointed-nottingham-forest-manager-nuno-espirito-santo-replacement-uk-view-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/134361\/","title":{"rendered":"Ange Postecoglou appointed Nottingham Forest manager, Nuno Esp\u00edrito Santo replacement, UK View, video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ange Postecoglou\u2019s first training session at Nottingham Forest has shone a spotlight on a looming \u201cideological clash\u201d for the English Midlands outfit.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, the Australian was appointed as the successor for Nuno Esp\u00edrito Santo<\/a>, who became the first Premier League manager to lose his job this season following a dispute with club owner and Greek billionaire Evangelos Marinakis.<\/p>\n

Despite ending Spurs\u2019 17-year wait to win a trophy, Postecoglou himself was sacked by Tottenham just days after winning the Europa League \u2013 but he only needed three months before a return to the Premier League.<\/p>\n

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‘Winning Trophies’: Forest appoint Ange | 02:23<\/p>\n

Will Unwin of The Guardian<\/a> warned that Nottingham Forest\u2019s p\ufefflayers and staff will not immediately embrace Postecoglou because of \u201cthe admiration and warmth they felt for Nuno\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPostecoglou is highly regarded; his amiable nature and warmth are the cornerstones of his man-management and they will be critical to win over players disappointed Nuno is no longer their leader,\u201d Unwin penned.<\/p>\n

However, Postecoglou\u2019s attacking philosophy \u2013 colloquially dubbed \u2018Angeball\u2019 \u2013 contrasts heavily from Nuno\u2019s cautious approach at Nottingham Forest, meaning the club\u2019s style of play could be headed for a drastic change.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is an ideological clash here. Postecoglou prided himself on playing attractive, attacking football with high lines, aggressive presses and lots of the ball. He is now entering a squad of Forest players who were drilled in low blocks, counterattacking breaks and a lack of ball possession under Nuni,\u201d Sam Blitz of Sky Sports<\/a> wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe two styles of Nuno\u2019s Forest and Postecoglou\u2019s Spurs are polar opposites.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alex Keble, writing for premierleague.com<\/a>, added: \u201cIf he wishes to reassert \u2018Ange-ball\u2019, if he believes that the endgame at Spurs was simply emergency measures, then he has his work cut out. Forest were one of the most defence-first and reactive teams in the Premier League under Nuno, while Spurs were one of the most attack-first and proactive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nottingham Forest forward Callum Hudson-Odoi revealed that Postecoglou put the players through their paces during an intense maiden training session on Tuesday, confessing to feelings of culture shock.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah that was a session! I can\u2019t even lie to you,\u201d Hudson-Odoi \ufefftold talkSPORT<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us, it\u2019s building that relationship with him early and getting ideas of what he wants to bring into the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the manager comes in, you have to make sure that you get that quickly because games happen fast.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo for us, it\u2019s just making sure we\u2019re ready, we\u2019re prepared and make sure that everyone just knows what he wants us to do, and hopefully apply it in the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tottenham’s head coach Ange Postecoglou. AP Photo\/Kirsty Wigglesworth, FileSource: AP<\/p>\n

Gregor Robertson of The Times<\/a> suggested there were lingering doubts about the legitimacy of Postecoglou\u2019s high-intensity attacking football, pointing out that Tottenham finished in the Premier League 17th last season under his guidance.<\/p>\n

He added that Nuno was \u201chugely popular in the Forest dressing room\u201d, claiming his departure he \u201cnot gone down well\u201d with the players.<\/p>\n

\u201cNuno\u2019s team played effective football; Postecoglou\u2019s played football rooted in ideology,\u201d Robertson penned.<\/p>\n

\u201cHas the 60-year-old learnt from his two seasons in north London? Will we see a return to the buccaneering, free-flowing football that earned more plaudits than points? Or will we see something more akin to the conservative, counterattacking play that got his hands on a trophy?\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Joey Lynch of ESPN<\/a> analysed the contrasting strategies of Tottenham and Nottingham Forest last summer; Spurs had the fifth-most possession among clubs in the English top flight with 55 per cent, while Forest had the third-fewest in the league with 41 per cent.<\/p>\n

\u201cPostecoglou will need to quickly come to grips with a squad that has been built around playing a risk-averse, counterattacking style of football that stands as an almost polar opposite of his preferred approach,\u201d Lynch wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cForest\u2019s players have spent an entire pre-season preparing to play with an approach that brought them significant success last season, but now they\u2019ll likely be asked to do something completely different \u2013 \u2018Angeball\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd there won\u2019t be a transfer window to bring in suitable stylistic reinforcements until January.\u201d<\/p>\n

Excitement high for Anges Forest start | 08:03<\/p>\n

Lynch also acknowledged that Nottingham Forest\u2019s jam-packed schedule for the 2025\/26 season could jeopardise Postecoglou\u2019s maiden campaign, just as injuries plagued Tottenham last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cForest will be tasked with league, FA Cup, Carabao Cup and Europa League commitments this season,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cPostecoglou, and the fans, need only look back to last season to see what kind of challenges can be presented by such a logjam of fixtures<\/p>\n

\u2013 especially if you don\u2019t have all the pieces you need to play the high-octane, all-or-nothing approach likely to be implemented.\u201d<\/p>\n

Currently sit tenth on the Premier League standings with four points after three games, Nottingham Forest will next face Arsenal at Emirates Stadium on Saturday at 9.30pm AEST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ange Postecoglou\u2019s first training session at Nottingham Forest has shone a spotlight on a looming \u201cideological clash\u201d for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-134361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}