Vitor Pereira has agreed a deal to become Nottingham Forest’s fourth manager of the season.<\/p>\n
The former Wolves boss was identified as the first choice to replace Sean Dyche, who was sacked following Wednesday\u2019s goalless Premier League draw with the Molineux club.<\/p>\n
Talks progressed swiftly and the two parties have agreed a contract.<\/p>\n
The deal, pending the relevant paperwork, could be announced soon.<\/p>\n
Pereira had been out of work since leaving Wolves in November after a disastrous start to the campaign. However, he kept them up the season before after taking over from Gary O\u2019Neil.<\/p>\n
Unless there are any unexpected late hitches, the Portuguese will be in charge for next week\u2019s Europe League play-off first leg at Fenerbahce.<\/p>\n
But his first brief will be to keep Forest in the Premier League as they sit three points above the relegation zone with 12 games to go.<\/p>\n
Forest had 35 shots on goal against Wolves but could not find a way through against the basement club and the home fans roundly booed Dyche at the full-time whistle.<\/p>\n
Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis was at the game and, after holding counsel with other members of the club\u2019s hierarchy and senior players, he sacked Dyche in a belief that would give his club the best chance of staying in the English top flight.<\/p>\n
The 54-year-old was in charge for 114 days and follows Nuno Espirito Santo and Ange Postecoglou out of the door in a tumultuous season at the City Ground.<\/p>\n
Dyche left on the back of a run of just two wins from the last 10 league games, and taking two points from matches against Crystal Palace, Leeds and Wolves proved fatal.<\/p>\n
It was supposed to be a memorable season for Forest after Nuno guided them to their first European qualification in 20 years.<\/p>\n
He signed a new three-year Reds deal in June 2025, but was sacked in September following a breakdown in his relationship with Marinakis and sporting director Edu.<\/p>\n
Former Tottenham boss Postecoglou was swiftly brought in as the Portuguese\u2019s replacement, but lasted only 40 days in the job, with Marinakis wielding the axe again within minutes of a 3-0 defeat by Chelsea.<\/p>\n
Dyche, who lives in Nottingham and was a trainee at the club, became the club\u2019s third first-team boss of the season on 21 October and was joined in the dugout by former Forest heroes Ian Woan and Steve Stone.<\/p>\n
They beat Porto in his first game in charge and looked to have turned a corner after a 3-0 win at Premier League champions Liverpool a month later.<\/p>\n
But form has been inconsistent and there were internal concerns since they lost to Sky Bet Championship side Wrexham in the FA Cup in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vitor Pereira has agreed a deal to become Nottingham Forest’s fourth manager of the season. The former Wolves…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-297294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}