Ange Postecoglou: Nottingham Forest appoints ex-spurs chief as new principal coach of Nuno Espirito Santo Firing

Nottingham Forest has appointed ex-Tottenham chief Ange Postecoglou as their new head coach to replace the fired Nuno Espirito Santo.

Sky Sports News Understand that the Australian has signed a two-year deal at City Ground.

Postecoglou returns to management just three months after being fired by Spurs, despite led them to the Europa League Glory last season.

Postecoglou successor Nuno, who was fired late Monday night after a breakdown in his relationship with the owner Evangelos marinakis, And it is understood that he would be dismissed.

Greek Marinakis has been an admirer of Postecoglou, whose family is of Greek origin, for some time, and he was quickly identified as the leading candidate to take over from Nuno.

Marinakis said of Postecoglou’s appointment: “We bring a coach to the club who has a proven and consistent record for winning trophies.

“His experience of coaching team at the highest level, along with his desire to build something special with us at Forest, makes him a fantastic person to help us on our journey and consistently achieve all our ambitions.

“After getting promotion to the Premier League and then building consistent season after season to secure European football, we now have to take the right step to compete with the very best and challenge for trophies.

“Ange has credentials and track record to do this, and we are excited for him to join us on our ambitious journey.”

Ange to meet Arsenal away in the first forest game

Marinakis has given Postecoglou another crack in the Premier League and European football.

The 60-year-old is ready for a quick return to northern London as forest visits Tottenham’s rivals Arsenal in the Premier League on Saturday lunch time.

Postecoglou’s first four responsible matches in Forest are all gone, with his first home game first 27 September against Sunderland, Live On Sky Sports.

Sky Sports News Understand Postecoglou wants Mile Jedinak, Sergio Reimundo, Nick Montgomery and Rob Burch as part of his back staff.

The ex-Celtic boss spent two seasons on Spurs and ended their 17-year-old trophy drought last season by winning the Europa League.

But 16 days after leading Tottenham to their first European trophy of 41 years, Postecoglou was fired after the club’s worst Premier League season ever when they ended 17. With 22 defeats from 38 games.

Just over a month after his firing, Marinaki’s Postecoglou presented with a special award in Greece to be the first coach of Greek origin to win a European trophy in the gentlemen’s game.

He said, “Ange has spoken many times about Greece. It is very important for a person to be proud and shout about his origin.

“He achieved it with a team that did not win titles and fought. With this success with Tottenham, he made Greece proud.

“He is a very good coach and where he goes, he will make Greece proud.”

Can Ange make the forest more dynamic?

Latest from Sky Sports News’ Anton Toloui:

“Obviously, Evangelos Marinakis wants Nottingham Forest 3.0 in the Premier League.

“Steve Cooper got them up, Nuno took them to Europe, and now Ange Postecoglou is responsible for making this team more dynamic and successful.

“Forest has spent great on attackers in the summer, it is now up to the former Tottenham manager to unlock their potential.

“35 million pounds were spent on Omari Hutchinson, a similar fee also sprayed out at Dan Ndoye and Dylane Bakwe, plus James McATEE came in for up to £ 30m, £ 25m went to Rennes for Arnaud Kalimuendo and Igor Jesus was not cheap from botofogo.

“They have also provided major contracts for Callum Hudson-Odoi and Morgan Gibbs White.

“Forest can easily name three different front-three that are able to compete in Premier and Europe, it’s down to Postecoglou to loosen them.

“Forest missed the Champions League with just one point despite having only the ball to 40 percent on average in matches last season. To put it in context, only Everton and Ipswich had on average less possession.

“It will be a complete marine change in the way we have to see Forest play because Postecoglou would not really change the way he created for someone at Tottenham.

“Even when the results did not go, he was dogmatic with his system; he wanted it to continue, even though the fans would apparently see a more pragmatic approach.

“Postecoglou has to solve the puzzle, which is how to make the most of all the attacking talent at Forest.

“Also ignores the lazy story of club owner Marinakis, who wants Postecoglou because he was born in Athens.

“To paraphrasing the words of the forest hero Brian Clough, Marinaki’s ‘wants to win but wants to win it better’. He thinks he has found that the man did just that.”

‘Writing was on the wall’ – how EDU caused rift between nuno and marinakis

Sky Sports News’ Rob Dorsett:

Nuno eventually has his wish. Although he denied it, he would be fired.

And Marinakis has now chosen a replacement coach in his own image: Ange Postecoglou is a dominant man, Headstrong, Principal, who does not suffer with joy.

Nuno would never resign, but he had had enough of life at City Ground. As soon as Marinakis appointed EDU for his global football manager, the writing was on the wall.

Read more from Rob Dorsett’s analysis of why Nuno was fired here.

Another Ange RollerCoaster -Tour waiting for Forest?

Postecoglou took the Premier League by storm when he arrived Spurs in July 2023.

His free-flowing ‘ange-ball’ style so spurs go undefeated to the first 10 league games of the season, including a 2-1 home victory over Liverpool that put them the top of the table.

His first defeat came in a chaotic 4-1 home loss against Chelsea, where he drew criticism for refusing to adapt his game style even when reduced to nine men. That led him to famous to say, “It’s just who we are, comrade.”

Despite lifting in the early season, the campaign ended disappointingly as Spurs lost five of their last seven games to finish the fifth and miss the Champions League.

After a difficult start to its second season and a North -London Derby Home Sought to Arsenal in September, Postecoglou defiantly said: “I always win things in my second year.”

This promise kept Postecoglou fluid as Spurs fought domestic, which led to great pressure in late January after an unhappy 2-1 home win for relegation-threatened Leicester.

Injuries, admittedly, inhibited Postecoglou, who put all his eggs in the Europa League curve in an attempt to finish Spurs ’17-year-old trophy drought.

And he delivered as Tottenham beat Manchester United 1-0 in the final of Bilbao.

But in the end, Tottenham’s terrible Premier League campaign, which saw them ending 17. At record 38 points, Postecoglou’s turbulent time ended at Spurs.

Postecoglou had expressed his desire to be another year and told fans at the Europa League Victory Parade that “Season three is better than season two.”

But then -spurs chairman Daniel Levy canceled the Postecoglou show, and now he plays at City Ground, where he hopes to end another club’s trophy drought with Forest Winless since 1990 -and also defend his Europa League title.
Gareth Hamill