Who will be next Nottingham Forest manager after Ange Postecoglou sack?
Nottingham Forest have sacked Ange Postecoglou after the Australian failed to win any of his eight games. Who will be their third manager this season?
Postecoglou came out fighting before the visit of Chelsea but a 3-0 defeat at the City Ground sealed his fate and expended what was left of Evangelos Marinakis’ patience.
Having lost touch with reality in the final throes of his reign, Postecoglou was beaten for the 26th time in his last 41 Premier League games in charge of either Forest or Spurs.
It means we bring you another ‘Who will be the next Nottingham Forest manager?’ less than a month after we stopped updating the last one.
Here are the 10 favourites to replace Ange based on the latest odds from Sportscasting…
10=) Oliver Glasner
Supposedly Evangelos Marinakis’ ‘prime candidate’, as he will be for any owner looking for a new manager with the wherewithal to lure him away from Crystal Palace. Defeat to Everton on Sunday illustrated why that may be possible. He is level in the odds with five other managers.
8=) Rafa Benitez
Rafa put paid to suggestions he is done with coaching last month by insisting “I am still evolving”, but having to Google whether a manager has retired or not perhaps isn’t the best sign.
8=) Graham Potter
Sweden looks set to beat Forest to recently-sacked Potter.
6=) Pedro Martins
The former manager of Evangelos Marinakis-owned Olympiacos.
6=) Jose Luis Mendilibar
The current manager of Evangelos Marinakis-owned Olympiacos.
5) Erik ten Hag
A 63-day sacking is hard to recover from, even when it’s not then followed by reports detailing how staff at Bayer Leverkusen were openly discussing whether you might have been ‘the worst manager in the club’s history’.
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4) Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
Available after being brutally sacked by Besiktas, but might just be holding out for that sweet poisoned chalice of a caretaker job at Old Trafford in order to rediscover that all important Manchester United DNA.
3) Brendan Rodgers
He’s reportedly refused offers of a new deal at Celtic with his contract up at the end of the season having been frustrated by the lack of investment and has been lured south from Glasgow to the East Midlands before. He does indeed feels like the most likely option, and one of the best on this otherwise uninspiring list.
2) Marco Silva
Marinakis is a ‘big admirer’ having worked with him at Olympiacos in 2015, but no Premier League marriage is more set in its ways than Fulham and Silva; both would be absolute bobbins without the other.
1) Sean Dyche
We know they’re 17th, but that’s just where clubs managed by Ange Postecoglou are. There’s surely no genuine concern of relegation with this squad, which would be the only reason to hire the no-nonsense anti-woke firefighter. And yet.
