{"id":90638,"date":"2025-08-23T19:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T19:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/90638\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T19:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T19:12:11","slug":"ange-postecoglou-tipped-for-return-as-nottingham-forest-boss-nuno-espirito-santo-adds-fuel-to-exit-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/90638\/","title":{"rendered":"Ange Postecoglou tipped for return as Nottingham Forest boss Nuno Espirito Santo adds fuel to exit rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trouble at Nottingham Forest could see Ange Postecoglou make a reported comeback to the Premier League<\/a> after manager Nuno Espirito Santo lamented his deteriorating relationship with the club’s owner.<\/p>\n

While Forest play at Crystal Palace on Sunday night (AEST), most of Nuno’s pre-game press conference was about his relationship with Greek shipping magnate Evangelos Marinakis, amid reports the club is considering sacking the Portuguese manager.<\/p>\n

“There is no smoke without fire,” Nuno said about the rumours.<\/p>\n

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\"Ange<\/p>\n

Ange Postecoglou lifts the Europa League trophy as he acknowledges the fans.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Nuno, who said last week his squad needed strengthening in all but one position, said his relationship with Marinakis had broken down, and they rarely spoke.<\/p>\n

“I always had a very good relationship with the owner. Last season we were very close and spoke on a daily basis,” he told reporters.<\/p>\n

“This season it is not so well (between us) but I always believe that dialogue is important because my concern is the squad and the season we have ahead of us. Our relationship has changed and we are not as close.”<\/p>\n

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Nuno Espirito Santo, manager of Nottingham Forest, speaks to his players.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Forest dispelled reports of a heated confrontation between the two last season after Marinakis appeared to be fuming when he came onto the pitch and spoke to the manager after the full-time whistle.<\/p>\n

“The reality is that the relationship is not what it used to be,” Nuno said.<\/p>\n

“It was a respectful relationship based on trust and sharing opinions but now it is not so good.<\/p>\n

\"Ange<\/p>\n

Ange Postecoglou could be back in the Premier League according to reports in the UK.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“I think everybody at the club should be together but this is not the reality.”<\/p>\n

According to several reports in the UK, Postecoglou is understood to be a leading candidate for the role if Forest decide to sack Nuno.<\/p>\n

The Guardian reports the 59-year-old Australian is interested in the role. Fenerbache manager Jose Mourinho has also been mentioned.<\/p>\n

\"Chris<\/p>\n

Chris Wood of Nottingham Forest celebrates his opening day goal.\u00a0Nottingham Forest FC via Getty I<\/p>\n

While Forest opened the season with a 3-1 win over Brentford last weekend, Nuno had been downbeat before that game, expressing his frustration at the club’s summer transfer activity.<\/p>\n

“We are going to play a tough game against a good team and we are short on options to give solutions that the game might need, which is our major concern,” he said a week ago.<\/p>\n

“We need players.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trouble at Nottingham Forest could see Ange Postecoglou make a reported comeback to the Premier League after manager…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-90638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90638","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=90638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}