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05 Oct 2025 16:05:22
Stop blaming the players and start blaming our owner.
Marinakis met Postecoglu in July at a Greek awards/ draw ceremony i believe.
This is after he ran on pitch and berated Nuno at the end of last season.
This is after he hired Edu.
This is after Edu started sanctioning £200m of new signings, which one assumes Nuno had little say in. How are they working out?
No wonder Nuno got hacked off. Was he so wrong to say he didn't have the same relationship with Mr M as before?
This may go down as the worst managerial change in Prem history. Can anyone think of a worse one?
Mr M has to make a change and it needs to be a good one. But who knows what the players are thinking and who knows who comes next.
Mr M has done a lot of good in his time of course - but he now needs to step up and make a change and start a process of renewal at the club.
1.) 05 Oct 2025 21:17:09
With apologies I should have asked for that to go on Banter site.
2.) 06 Oct 2025 05:48:20
Marinakis is like Trumpty but without the dementia.
3.) 06 Oct 2025 12:58:33
ForestCAgen, quite remarkable turn around by Mr Marinakis, from giving Nuno a new contract, then a break down in communication between the two in 7 weeks, it may cost us a season fighting for our Premier league place?.
4.) 06 Oct 2025 17:48:33
The contract gave Nuno the opportunity to say what he actually thought knowing he, d be expensive to sack, but M with more money than sense decided he show who is Boss.
Act in haste repent at leisure.
5.) 08 Oct 2025 21:23:32
I blame the players who were already here and whoever didn't recruit sufficient cover in defence. The new manager and Nuno made mistakes (we've been sh14 since April 1st last season) but the form of our key players is nowhere (MGW, Wood, CHO and recently Sels) and the new boss doesn't even have half of the defence that Nuno was lucky didn't get injured last season.
SO who didn't sign what we need? Who is not capable of doing a job this season like put a ball in the net? Who gives the ball away all the time (I'll give you a clue: It definitely isn't Ange and is MGW). Who caused the injuries to our defence (CLUE: NOt Ange).
I'm sick of hearing the hate that is based on Tabloid BS. Grow a pair and admit what the real problems are at Forest!
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15 Mar 2026 16:02:47.
I am not on here enough but for those that wanted Dyche gone, and Nuno for that matter…. You were 100% wrong.
We are clueless and that team is not good enough to stay up. We deserve to go down.
9 years of ownership. Better than Fawaz but that’s the lowest of low bars to beat.
Mr M, I’m lost for words.
1.) 15 Mar 2026 16:47:16
I think the teams that finish in the bottom 3 deserve to go down. It's kind of the point that the worst 3 do, right.
14 Mar 2026 22:01:21
This season has been chaos from the start and has been brewing since we got promoted (we’ve never had a proper strategy). And here we are back in the relegation zone. 72 signings, multiple managers, multiple CEOs.
Club’s need stability and they need a plan. Do we actually have any plan at all?
We spent so much money in the summer - and we all know how well that has gone - as well as sacking managers (£30m+?) - we had nothing in January left so we got the Italian tower upfront (who looks poor) on loan and Netz (who appears irrelevant) for peanuts.
West Ham meanwhile bought some quality in the summer (Fernandez looks excellent, the left back too) and still had enough to spent properly in January for Disai, and the two forwards.
What a total, predictable, self-inflicted shambles. As I said before, this is on Mr M. Shocking.
12 Mar 2026 21:49:20
Well here we are again. Am I only the one - and I realise I might be - that doesn't even care that much about the competition. I haven't from the start . the chaos of the season just has made it all so flat. Plus we look pedestrian and the standard of the competition seems low to me. I just don't care very much about this never ending format of mid week games.
I don't know about VP - I'd much rather have SD by a mile, what does he seem to offer? - but we have little or no momentum again and our league form now reflects that I watch us and think we will never score that is what will see us relegated.
1.) 13 Mar 2026 00:47:14
'Standard of the competition seems low'
Yet we end up losing after a multitude of shots. If anything is low, standard wise, it's our shoddy team.
04 Mar 2026 08:14:16
Since we got promoted in May 2022, we have signed 72 players either on permanent transfers on on loan;
We have had: three chairmen (Randall → Cartledge → Randall again),
Two CEOs with a two-year gap in between
Four people in the sporting/ football director role (Dourekas, Giraldi, Wilson, Syrianos/ Edu), and significant boardroom churn throughout.
The club is run like this. You cannot succeed this way, you will only end up failing in my view.
For sure some players now look less interested than they did, but I would challenge anyone on here to feel like they did about a place with all this change and chaos around them, whatever you are paid.
Now we have VP, with a terrible recent track record in the Prem, replacing SD, who was turfed out because the Chairman got impatient and then got the players involved. Allegedly SD had to return to the stadium to get his marching orders. Shocking behaviour. No new manager bounce.
I am fed up with my club - our club - being run this way. Could I do better, I probably could. Many of us could.
I don't have £300-£400m to burn of course but every big decision and investment scheme requires planning, discipline, a proper team and stability to make it a success.
For sure Mr M is better than Fawaz, but that's a very low bar to beat.
Even Fawaz didn't hire Clattenburg, confront our manager on the pitch + deal with managers like this.
This approach may take us down, and this time we are going to be hamstrung with the kind of wage bill (even after we get rid of our only genuinely good players) that will make our eyes water. You thought Leicester was bad, I guess this could be similar.
Furthermore, in the last 5 years we have also become a club with a poor reputation, as irrational and chaotic, one complaining all the time . what a shame. We used to be a lot of people's second team.
Our only hope is that we somehow stay up and somehow Mr M sorts things out. Post SD leaving, I think the former is very unlikely.
These are testing times and we all love the club, but I don't love what it has become.
1.) 04 Mar 2026 09:16:46
Mr M is the best we have at the moment. We have to suck it up and run with it. Can't do any other. Even if I had £300 million to waste, it would mainly go on my families and other good causes, not on football. I might spend a 100 million on a couple of strikers who could score. ?????
2.) 04 Mar 2026 12:55:36
Good post Agen. Sums the failure and collapse up nicely. We're in a doom loop, but how do we get out of it? No stability anywhere atm.
3.) 04 Mar 2026 14:08:58
Good post Agen. ?
01 Mar 2026 15:56:41
Well, most of you seemingly wanted Dyche out. Something I do not understand. Feeling good about it?
Either way, this is another poor, relegation-inducing performance.
All this season's chaos will affect the team. How can it not?
You can call out particular players (it was MGW for much of season, now it is Anderson, both of whom are made to play 95% of every game) if you want. They are all paid supremely well I know, but they will all be affected by it (changes in tactics, changes in languages, changes in personnel all around them).
The club is run so poorly, in my view.
We've had a catalogue of bad owners and Mr M has money to burn (seemingly) but there is never any stability, never any plan, never any discipline. It's a revolving door everywhere and if we get relegated this season (with >90% of our revenue apparently being salaries, many of whom will be impossible to shift) this is going to get very serious, very quickly.
If you want to get angry - and forget all this 'careful what you wish for' - you need to aim it at the owner. This is all on him.
1.) 01 Mar 2026 16:37:52
Couldn't agree more. Wanton greed with overnight success equals failure.
24 Jan 2026 20:46:10
Why would Silva go to Forest? Genuinely. Zero chance.
We have the 9th highest wage bill and the 17th team. Brentford tomorrow have the lowest wage bill in the league by the way. Just over half of ours.
05 Oct 2025 21:17:09
With apologies I should have asked for that to go on Banter site.
17 Mar 2026 02:49:41
You both make good points, but I think the situation is even worse than that, and the repercussions worse:
1) We have apparently signed 72 players, permanent or on loan, in 3.5 years in Prem. Most have been a failure. It is too high a number, and it indicates just how chaotic everything probably is. Ange, SD and VP basically have been unable to sign anyone.
2) We spent so much on our woeful recruitment in the summer that we had nothing left in Jan, so we bought Luca and Netz. West Ham, for example, spent properly and got 2 or 3 quality additions.
3) When we first got promoted, Mr M’s 21 (?) year old son appeared to take a lead on some deals.
4) I would disagree on our prior ability to buy one or two v good players/strikers. Maybe not £80m, but it could have been £50m for sure, but we wasted it (look what Hutchison cost alone, McAtee).
4) I read somewhere, and this is my big fear, that our salary is over 90% of our Premier League revenue. Wages as a % of turnover are much more important than PSR going forward, so selling our good players if relegated won't save us.
This should be a proper wake up call as a stat, and has me very worried.
5) If we do get relegated, and I have thought we would once Nuno left, the situation financially could be very, very tough. People underestimate this, I think, and who do we have in the club beyond Mr M to sort that out? Sticking us back in the cycle of finger-crossing.
6) We are on our multiple CEOs since being promoted too (I forget the number), but could be 4th.
7) Assuming we do get relegated (I realise that hasn’t happened, may not happen), the change required in personnel will be huge, and the wages of our second tier players probably atrocious. Wolves are already building for the Championship, and look way ahead of us in that regard.
Mr M controls and wants to control almost everything. Without a plan or proper structure, you cannot succeed. What is our plan? Will he/we ever really change? Doubt it. This is the season our luck may run out and then what happens?
01 Mar 2026 16:05:24
I'm not totally defending the players, and we can all see the recruitment has been diabolical, but the owner is the cause here. 100%.
27 Feb 2026 09:38:02
What I would love to know is why Mr M wanted to give Edu the job? What were his qualifications? What had he achieved? It's blown the club up, and that's not Edu's fault per se. No wonder Wilson and Nuno both left.
27 Feb 2026 09:35:56
Yes. The reality, of course, is we spent so much money before the season began (on what looks like a total waste of £170m) that we had nothing left for the Jan window. And we let Edu apparently sign Lucca and the left back.
He's gone, but a reminder to everyone that Dyche was on a higher PPG than Nuno, and had not signed a single player (not one). West Ham had money left to spend, and they look to have signed pretty well in January, to be honest.
24 Feb 2026 17:18:57
You cannot blame him for a draw at Palace. I don't get the point, 2GS... He had a better points per game than our other managers this season. Why get rid of him? We do need to move on, I get that, but the reality is that we are in this mess because of what appears like woeful, chaotic, regularly baffling decision making from our owner.
This season alone, there are so many missteps I cannot be bothered to type them out. I think Dyche would have kept us up, but, either way, nothing will change for any time, whatever league we are in, whilst things are done the way they are at board level. In my view.