{"id":302906,"date":"2026-02-17T18:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302906\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T18:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:15:07","slug":"pereira-believes-he-can-keep-forest-in-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302906\/","title":{"rendered":"Pereira believes he can keep Forest in Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vitor Pereira believes he is the man to keep Nottingham Forest in the Premier League after becoming the club&#8217;s fourth manager of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The former Wolves boss has taken over at the City Ground on an 18-month deal after Sean Dyche followed Nuno Espirito Santo and Ange Postecoglou out of the door.<\/p>\n<p>Pereira, who kept the Molineux club in the Premier League last season, inherits a team in the thick of a relegation battle, sitting three points above the bottom three with 12 games to go.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;I prefer to speak about the present and the future. But you know this is a difficult season for the players, because it\u2019s different methodologies, different managers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s not easy, but I believe the reason why I accept this job is because I believe in the quality of the players, because I believe in the potential of this club, the ambition of the president.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, I believe that it\u2019s possible (to stay up). I believe that we can get points, results and quality in the games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the RT\u00c9 Soccer podcast on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ie\/podcast\/derry-stutter-bohs-bounce-drogs-on-top-rt%C3%A9-soccer-podcast\/id1351258823?i=1000749981290\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/2EsKFxvuXPcdTiPIQh0Kt4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spotify<\/a> or wherever you get your podcasts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"youtube-container tpe\" data-embed=\"youtube\" data-id=\"7RSsxJPyyr4\">\n<p>Watch Bodo\/Glimt v Inter Milan in the Champions League knockout phase play-offs on Wednesday from 7.30pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vitor Pereira believes he is the man to keep Nottingham Forest in the Premier League after becoming the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-302906","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\/302906","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=302906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}