Evangelos Marinakis and Nuno Espirito Santo's Nottingham Forest Storm on a Lull for Now - Reporter Notebook

After a week when it felt like Nottingham Forest tried to self -destroy, there is an awkward ceasefire on the city’s land as all sides tend to their wounds. How lasting this ceasefire is to see.

The situation is still very unpredictable with two passionate and fleeting characters in violation of each other – owns Evangelo’s Marinakis and manager Nuno Espirito Santo. This relationship has worsened with certainty, possibly irrevocable, and in the long term there are serious questions about how long the Portuguese coach will continue in his role.

But so far, Sky Sports News Have been told that the most important players are determined to radiate an air of “business as usual” to know that what has happened in the last 10 days has seriously affected the stability among the team and the mood of the entire club.

Nuno has now publicly said what we reported on Friday- that he categorically will not resign. “Never. It’s absurd.” And then if he has to leave the forest, Marinakis will have to sack him and pay him. There is no impending sign of the Greek billionaire who wants to do so. His mantra has always been that inconsistencies should be sent behind closed doors to show no chink in the armor of device. And then the manager who speaks so mute, and then personally, has felt him as a betrayal.

However, there are conciliatory sounds from the manager now – he says he wants a meeting to clear the air with the owner and EDU – global football manager for all Marinakis’ clubs. But it is far from clear when it will happen. There is no such meeting at the moment scheduled. And that is the relationship – Nuno versus Edu – that is the core of the problem here.

When Edu took over last month, Nuno was already in the mail and he had just signed a new contract the month before. In football – as in many other industries – when a new boss comes in, they tend to use their own people. The troubled Nuno from the start and decisively put it an intermediary (a barrier, in Nuno’s eyes) between himself and the great boss. He felt undermined and sidelined. But what is more harmful to the forest – and a very difficult situation for marinakis to control – is that basic Edu and Nuno do not like each other. There is a clash of character. And when that happens, it’s usually the boss who wins in the long run. Edu is very obviously Nuno’s boss.

These differences may have been set aside for now, but you feel that the resentment will be hanging. Marinakis is not a man who kindly takes to criticize, especially in public and especially from his older people. Nuno has done it twice in a week.

On the threshold of the opening match, he shocked forest fans – and the owner – by openly criticizing the club’s lack of transfer business. He was obviously targeting Edu, but he hit Marinakis in the cross. Four new signings at a price of £ 118 million Followed for the next week and the owner must have thought he had placed (and maybe bothered) the manager, with the investment level he had exaggerated.

But no – at his next news conference before the match, Nuno fell yet another bomb shell – his relationship with the owner had worsened, he said: They were “not close” and that “had changed”. And when asked about a report in Spain, which suggested that he would soon be fired, he said “there is no smoke without fire.”

1-1 draw in Crystal Palace saw James McATEE, Omari Hutchinson and Arnaud Kalimuendo all debuts, with the new midfielder Douglas Luiz for a unused sub. Despite that, and despite eight new signings this summer, Nuno said after the match he still wants a new goalkeeper and two new full backs before the transfer window closes Monday. He keeps the pressure on EDU with certainty.

The owner would never respond quickly to Friday’s criticism and sack manager two days before a Premier League game. But Marinakis now has a little more breathing space to consider his options – especially with the first international break of the season only a week away. This break in the season can be crucial to seeing the relationship either repaired or destroyed.

Marinakis will have noticed the fierce support for Nuno from The Away supporters who follow in Selhurst Park, with a noisy rendering of “Nuno, Nuno, Nuno” coming from the stands after full time when the manager went to approve the fans. But the owner will also have noticed a growing divide in the fan base on social media, with a growing minority speaking against the behavior of a man who has delivered European football and led the team to their highest league position since the mid -1990s.

There is currently a break after the most biting and unexpected storm. But if there is one thing we have learned about the current forest – is the only specific thing that nothing is safe.