Sources: Dyche, Mancini vying for Forest job

Sean Dyche is vying with erstwhile Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini to regenerate Ange Postecoglou astatine Nottingham Forest, sources person told ESPN, with Mancini being considered by Forest proprietor Evangelos Marinakis arsenic an alternate to the erstwhile Burnley and Everton manager.

Forest are searching for their 3rd manager of the play aft the nine announced Postecoglou's sacking conscionable 19 minutes aft the team's 3-0 location defeat against Chelsea connected Saturday.

The erstwhile Tottenham, Celtic and Australia manager had been successful his station for conscionable 39 days, taking complaint of 8 games without a win, since replacing Nuno Espírito Santo past month.

But with Forest dismissing Postecoglou aft his little spell astatine the club, sources person said that Dyche is the favoured campaigner to instrumentality implicit and that discussions person instrumentality spot with the 54-year-old, whose connections to the nine day backmost to his clip arsenic a younker squad subordinate successful the 1980s.

Dyche, who was fired by Everton past season, is not a certainty to instrumentality charge, however, with Marinakis keen to measure Mancini's qualities for the job.

Mancini, 60, has not worked successful English shot since being fired by City successful May 2013 -- 12 months aft guiding the nine to its archetypal league rubric successful 44 years -- aft falling retired with a fig of elder players astatine the Etihad.

Mancini has since coached Galatasaray, Inter Milan and Zenit St Petersburg, but has not been progressive successful the nine crippled since 2018, erstwhile helium started a five-year stint arsenic Italy coach, during which helium led the Azzurri to the Euro 2020 title.

He has been retired of enactment since leaving his station arsenic Read Entire Article