{"id":322543,"date":"2025-12-18T09:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T09:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/322543\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T09:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T09:50:09","slug":"evangelos-marinakis-ambition-laid-bare-as-exciting-nottingham-forest-prediction-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/322543\/","title":{"rendered":"Evangelos Marinakis ambition laid bare as exciting Nottingham Forest prediction made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest Nottingham Forest news as Reds aim to continue making progress in Premier League and Europa League<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_Nottingham-Forest-owner-Evangelos-Marinakis-against-Manchester-United.jpg\" alt=\"Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis(Image: Getty)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Ambitious owner Evangelos Marinakis \u2018won\u2019t stop\u2019 pushing <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghampost.com\/all-about\/nottingham-forest-fc\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Nottingham Forest<\/a> forward until they are challenging for silverware, according to Jermaine Jenas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Greek businessman Marinakis has been clear about his desire to bring trophies to the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghampost.com\/all-about\/city-ground\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">City Ground<\/a>. He has already got the Reds back in the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghampost.com\/all-about\/barclays-premier-league\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Premier League<\/a> and back in Europe but always has his eye on reaching the next level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Forest are in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghampost.com\/all-about\/europa-league\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">the Europa League <\/a>this term courtesy of last season\u2019s impressive seventh-placed finish under Nuno Espirito Santo. The aim was to build on that platform but the current campaign didn\u2019t quite get off to the start the Reds\u2019 had hoped for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Sean Dyche is the club\u2019s third head coach of the season, following on from Nuno and the short tenure of Ange Postecoglou. But ex-Red Jenas is certain the early off-field disruption was only as a result of <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghampost.com\/all-about\/evangelos-marinakis\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Marinakis<\/a> wanting what is best for Forest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Asked if there is a danger the owner can throw a spanner in the works regardless of on-pitch success, Jenas said in an interview with <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.10bet.co.uk\/sports\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">10bet:<\/a> \u201cNo, definitely not. You know, Mr. Marinakis, his heart&#8217;s in the right place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cI&#8217;m from that city and since they&#8217;ve been promoted into the Premier League, it&#8217;s a completely different city. The excitement around the place, the optimism in the city now, he&#8217;s brought all that to the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cGranted, the Nuno situation was not ideal, at best, but he&#8217;s doing what he thinks is best for the football club. Again, I think that things are done differently in Europe, on the continent, to how they&#8217;re done in England, in the Premier League, especially when it comes to how owners express themselves publicly.<\/p>\n<p>Get breaking Forest news sent direct to your phone<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Join our Nottingham Forest WhatsApp group and get the latest breaking news, interviews and opinion sent straight to your phone, plus matchday team news and live updates of all the action. Just click <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/DxjYRCZzWqbBzwWJTI4Iqe\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">here<\/a> and select \u2018Join Community\u2019 to get started. The only proviso is that you must have WhatsApp on your phone to participate. No one will be able to see your personal information and you will only receive messages from the NottinghamshireLive Reds writers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">We will not spam your WhatsApp feed with constant messages, but you will receive updates from us daily with the latest Reds stories. If you later decide to opt out, just go to the name at the top of your screen and click &#8216;Exit Group&#8217;. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. If you are curious, you can click here to read our <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reachplc.com\/site-services\/privacy-policy\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Privacy Notice.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cFrom a public point of view, I think we love him because he offers us so much to just entertain us, but from a club point of view, I ain&#8217;t got a bad word to say about him. His heart&#8217;s in the right place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cHe wants Forest in the Champions League. He wants Forest to be challenging for titles, and he doesn&#8217;t seem to want to stop until he gets there. So that&#8217;s a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The Reds claimed their first away win in Europe for 30 years when they <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghampost.com\/sport\/football\/match-reports\/nottingham-forest-player-ratings-utrecht-10699806\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">beat Utrecht in the Netherlands <\/a>last week. Qualifying for the knockout stages of the Europa League is the goal for Dyche\u2019s charges, and Jenas has backed them to at least get to the last four of the competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cI don&#8217;t see why not,\u201d he said when quizzed on whether his former club are Europa League contenders. \u201cI think we&#8217;ve seen with the competition over the last few years now that because we don&#8217;t have the teams dropping in from the Champions League, it allows those teams, especially those Premier League teams, the Spanish teams, to really go and have a good run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cI think Forest have had a decent start in the Europa League and the players they&#8217;ve got will probably be added to in January as well. I don&#8217;t see why they can&#8217;t get themselves at least to a semi-final. At that point it\u2019s luck of the draw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How far will Forest go in the Europa League this season?<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghampost.com\/sport\/football\/football-news\/nottingham-forest-evangelos-marinakis-europe-10710007#comments-wrapper\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\"> Click HERE to have your say<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latest Nottingham Forest news as Reds aim to continue making progress in Premier League and Europa LeagueNottingham Forest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[34203,2628,2600,17781,218,16358,45733,20423,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-322543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-ange-postecoglou","tag-barclays-premier-league","tag-europa-league","tag-evangelos-marinakis","tag-football","tag-nottingham-forest-fc","tag-nuno-espirito-santo","tag-sean-dyche","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}