{"id":88838,"date":"2025-10-18T14:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T14:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/88838\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T14:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T14:19:07","slug":"forest-consider-shock-re-appointment-as-preferred-target-of-three-options-decided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/88838\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest &#8216;consider&#8217; shock &#8216;re-appointment&#8217; as &#8216;preferred&#8217; target of three &#8216;options&#8217; decided"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, Nottingham Forest are \u2018considering\u2019 a surprise \u2018re-appointment\u2019 of a former manager to replace sacked boss Ange Postecoglou.<\/p>\n<p>Former Celtic and Spurs head coach Postecoglou was appointed to replace Nuno Espirito Santo at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/nottingham-forest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nottm Forest<\/a> earlier this season and he has already been sacked.<\/p>\n<p>This was a puzzling appointment as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/ange-postecoglou\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Postecoglou <\/a>adopts a completely different style of play and he is without a win in his eight games in charge across all competitions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/premier-league-sack-race-arteta-amorim-nuno\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Postecoglou quickly became the favourite to be the next Premier League manager sacked<\/a> and Forest confirmed his dismissal after Saturday\u2019s 3-0 loss to Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>The club said on X: \u2018Nottingham Forest Football Club can confirm that after a series of disappointing results and performances, Ange Postecoglou has been relieved of his duties as head coach with immediate effect. The club will make no further comment at this time.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of Saturday\u2019s match against Chelsea, BBC reporter Sami Mokbel claimed Forest have three \u2018options\u2019 in mind to replace Postecoglou, though Fulham boss Marco Silva is their \u2018preferred\u2019 target.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Dyche is also on their radar, while Mokbel has also revealed that the \u2018prospect of re-appointing Steve Cooper has been considered\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/next-nottingham-forest-manager-postecoglou-sack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Who will be next Nottingham Forest manager after Ange Postecoglou sack?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mokbel explained:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It is understood the process of identifying replacements in the event of Ange Postecoglou\u2019s sacking are under way, and developed during the international break.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018On Forest\u2019s radar is Fulham head coach Marco Silva, with sources indicating that the Portuguese is the preferred option of a number of internal figures at the City Ground.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Postecoglou made interesting team selections for the Chelsea game as he started Taiwo Awonyi, Douglas Luiz and Oleksandr Zinchenko.<\/p>\n<p>He commented on the potential benefits of this international break and was hoping that \u201csome of the noise dies down a little bit\u201d, which obviously did not end up happening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot so much a rest, but a chance to reflect on the first period. We had a good couple of weeks training,\u201d Postecoglou said pre-match.<\/p>\n<p>MORE NOTTM FOREST COVERAGE ON F365\u2026<br \/>\ud83d\udc49<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/nottm-forest-plan-a-rejected-approach-replace-nuno-one-reason-clause-opens-door\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Nottm Forest \u2018Plan A\u2019 rejected \u2018approach\u2019 to replace Nuno for one reason as \u2018clause\u2019 opens door<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/opinion-ange-postecoglou-particular-prism\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Postecoglou \u2018prism\u2019 rant shows Nottingham Forest manager has lost touch with reality<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/feature-transfer-power-ranking-big-six-stars-most-likely-leave-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Transfer power ranking: Guehi, Baleba, Anderson among non-Big Six stars most likely to leave in 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlayers who will start today like Murillo, Douglas Luiz and Zinchenko, we did really good work with them. We hadn\u2019t had the time to do a lot of training since we started so those two weeks have been invaluable for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the return of Murillo, Luiz and Zinchenko, he said: \u201cThey have proven Premier League experience. Murillo has hardly played for us, but when Dougie and Zinchenko have played they have made a difference to us so I\u2019m sure they will contribute today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked what he thinks fans can expect to see, Postecoglou responded: \u201cWhatever I say is irrelevant. No one wants to win more than me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m certainly not happy we haven\u2019t won so far but it hasn\u2019t been for the want of trying and we have been in games we should have won.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully that win comes today and some of the noise dies down a little bit, I don\u2019t think it will totally go but we will certainly kick out a few weeds and hopefully see a few more flowers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to reports, Nottingham Forest are \u2018considering\u2019 a surprise \u2018re-appointment\u2019 of a former manager to replace sacked boss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15009,42,1100,43,9884,1102,56626,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-88838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-ange-postecoglou","tag-headlines","tag-home-page","tag-news","tag-nottingham-forest","tag-premier-league","tag-steve-cooper","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88838","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=88838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}