{"id":134451,"date":"2025-09-11T04:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/134451\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T04:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:55:09","slug":"ange-postecoglou-appointed-by-nottingham-forest-first-interview-evangelos-marinakis-video-highlights-fixtures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/134451\/","title":{"rendered":"Ange Postecoglou appointed by Nottingham Forest, first interview, Evangelos Marinakis, video, highlights, fixtures"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his first interview as Nottingham Forest manager, Ange Postecoglou has vowed to return the club to its \u201crightful place\u201d in English football, reminding fans that he \u201cloves winning things\u201d.<\/p>\n

Four months after his departure from Tottenham, the Australian was appointed by the English Midlands outfit<\/a> as the successor for Nuno Esp\u00edrito Santo, 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, dismissed due to the club suffering its worst Premier League season since 1976\/77.<\/p>\n

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Speaking to the Nottingham Forest website following his appointment, Postecoglou declared: \u201cI love winning. I love winning things. It\u2019s what I\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI like the fans to be excited about watching the team play. There\u2019s already an existing mentality within the group here of working hard for one another, and I want to tap into that,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s about now implementing my own ideas. I love my teams to attack. I love my teams to score goals. That\u2019s sometimes misconstrued as me just playing one way. But the reason I want my team to play that way is because I love winning things \u2013 and that\u2019s what I want to do here.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nottingham Forest are two-time European Cup winners with triumphs in 1979 and 1980. The club finished seventh on the Premier League standings last season, also earning qualification for the Europa League.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you look at what the club has achieved in recent times, it\u2019s an outstanding feat to be where we are right now,\u201d Postecoglou continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cOther clubs that have won promotion have struggled to stay in the league, but in a short space of time we\u2019re back in Europe and competing for honours, which is a great credit to everyone involved.<\/p>\n

\u201cI get a sense that the club wants more and that\u2019s certainly what I want, so I think it\u2019s a really exciting time. I\u2019m honoured and I\u2019m humbled, but more importantly I\u2019m determined to make sure this football club takes its rightful place.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a fantastic football club with great history and, even in recent times, it has done really well. You bear that responsibility, but I\u2019m excited and I\u2019m looking forward to it and I\u2019m really happy to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThis football club hasn\u2019t been in Europe for a very long time, but it\u2019s got a couple of stars on its chest that show it\u2019s got rich history, and I\u2019m sure the fans will be looking forward to it as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ange Postecoglou, former manager of Tottenham Hotspur, now at Nottingham Forest.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Marinakis backed Postecoglou to continue his record of winning trophies at Tottenham, Celtic, Yokohama Marinos and during his spell in charge of Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are bringing a coach to the club who has a proven and consistent record of winning trophies,\u201d Marinakis said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis experience of coaching teams at the highest level, along with his desire to build something special with us at Forest, makes him a fantastic person to help us on our journey and achieve consistently all our ambitions.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cAfter gaining promotion to the Premier League, then building consistently season after season to secure European football, we now must take the right step to compete with the very best and challenge for trophies.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnge has the credentials and the track-record to do this, and we are excited he is joining us on our ambitious journey.\u201d<\/p>\n

Forest currently sit tenth on the Premier League standings with four points after three games. They will next face Arsenal at Emirates Stadium on Saturday at 9.30pm AEST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his first interview as Nottingham Forest manager, Ange Postecoglou has vowed to return the club to its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-134451","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\/134451","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=134451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}