Postecoglou Replaces Espirito Santo As Nottingham Forest’s New Head Coach

Ange Postecoglou has been appointed arsenic caput manager of Nottingham Forest, replacing the sacked Nuno Espirito Santo.

Nuno near his presumption astatine the City Ground precocious connected Monday nighttime aft 21 months successful complaint – and lone 3 games into the season.

Postecoglou returned to absorption of the squad conscionable 3 months aft helium was sacked by Tottenham pursuing a dismal Premier League play wherever they finished 17th.

However, the 60-year-old Australian led Spurs to a historical Europa League triumph astatine the extremity of the play to extremity the club’s long-running trophy drought.

Forest proprietor Evangelos Marinakis said, “We are bringing a manager to the nine who has a proven and accordant grounds of winning trophies.

“His acquisition of coaching teams astatine the highest level, on with his tendency to physique thing peculiar with america astatine Forest, makes him a fantastic idiosyncratic to assistance america connected our travel and execute consistently each our ambitions.”

Forest presently beryllium 10th successful the Premier League array aft their opening 3 games of the season.

Nuno’s past lucifer successful complaint was a 3-0 decision by West Ham earlier September’s planetary break.

The 51-year-old Portuguese manager took complaint of Forest successful December 2023 aft the dismissal of Steve Cooper and helped sphere their top-flight status.

Last word helium guided the nine to seventh successful the Premier League – their highest decorativeness since 1994-95 – arsenic they qualified for Europe for the archetypal clip successful 3 decades.

“After gaining promotion to the Premier League, past gathering consistently play aft play to unafraid European football, we present indispensable instrumentality the close measurement to vie with the precise champion and situation for trophies,” Marinakis said.

“Ange has the credentials and the way grounds to bash this, and we are excited helium is joining america connected our ambitious journey.”

Postecoglou’s archetypal crippled successful complaint volition beryllium Forest’s travel to Arsenal connected Saturday.

He becomes the eighth imperishable manager of Nottingham Forest since Marinakis took over in May 2017.