"The end of the honeymoon! Nottingham fires the meritorious coach, Ang Postkoglu becomes the first stand-in"

Lightning! After only three rounds of the league, Nottingham Forest beat the coach with a knife. On the evening of September 8 local time, the club officially announced that it would immediately part ways with 51-year-old Portuguese coach Nuno Espirito Santo. This decision shocked the Premier League and also allowed fans of the City Football Stadium to feel the "acceleration" of changing coaches at the beginning of the season.

According to exclusive information from The Athletic, Nuno's relationship with club owner Evangelos Marinakis has long been rifted, and the fuse is the latter's public admission that "communication with the top leaders is not smooth." Subsequently, Nuno’s conflict with sports director Edu was put on the table, and the undercurrent of the locker room in the East Midlands finally evolved into the “split get out of class” button. In the official statement, Forest still gave enough face: "Thanks to Nuno for his contributions in one of the most successful periods in the club's history, especially in leading the team back to the European game in 2024/25. This memory will be forever hidden in the city football field."

Data will not lie - under Nuno's rule, Forest ended with the seventh in the Premier League last season, and won the European ticket again after 23 years; the first three rounds of this season ranked 10th, and its performance is far from the level of "sounding the alarm". However, the report card ultimately cannot defeat the will of the top leaders. It is reported that former Tottenham coach Ang Postkoglu has become the number one candidate for the new coach, and his offensive football philosophy is regarded by Marinakis as the key to "Forest 2.0".

The next two weeks of international match days will become the "vacuum period" for forest coach selection, and hosting Arsenal at home on September 21 is likely to witness a new face roaring in the coach's seat. For the Forest, which had just recovered the glory of the European War, this was an acceleration of adventure and a game that had to be gambled - either soaring into the sky or returning to chaos.