{"id":10889,"date":"2025-09-09T03:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T03:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/10889\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T03:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T03:25:06","slug":"nottingham-forest-sack-manager-nuno-espirito-santo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/10889\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest sack manager Nuno Espirito Santo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>8 Sep, 2025 11:33 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Nuno Espirito Santo has been axed as head coach at Nottingham Forest. Photo \/ AFP<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<a class=\"ad__link\" data-test-ui=\"ad__link\" href=\"https:\/\/advertising.nzme.co.nz\/\" data-ad-env=\"both\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Advertise with NZME.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">All Whites captain Chris Wood will be returning to a new-look Nottingham Forest after international duty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The English Premier League side have confirmed the sacking of manager Nuno Espirito Santo, despite the Portuguese manager signing a new three-year contract two months ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Forest finished seventh on the table last year<br \/>\n         and currently sit 10th through three games with a win, a draw and a loss.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">Recently departed Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou and Jose Mourinho \u2013 are being mentioned as replacement options.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">Wood, who has starred for Forest under Espirito Santo since both arrived at the club in 2023, is currently in Auckland for the international clash with Australia tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 8 Sep, 2025 11:33 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,13381,3276,98,13379,3247,42,1019,93,13383,43,13376,13378,13382,13377,13380,40,38,41,39,5264,1533,4883],"class_list":{"0":"post-10889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-captain","10":"tag-chris","11":"tag-duty","12":"tag-espirito","13":"tag-forest","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-international","16":"tag-manager","17":"tag-newlook","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-nottingham","20":"tag-nuno","21":"tag-returning","22":"tag-sack","23":"tag-santo","24":"tag-top-news","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topnews","27":"tag-topstories","28":"tag-whites","29":"tag-will","30":"tag-wood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}