(21-08-2025, 09:17 AM)Sausage Roll Wrote: Faint praise from Kaveh Solhekol on Sky Sports this morning. Talking about Palace and agreeing with the Martin Samuel article from yesterday which basically said that Palace would love an owner like EM.

(21-08-2025, 10:10 AM)Paplane Wrote: Last night I was thinking about the effect the big man is now having on English football. We know that most of the media attributed Palace's Europa demise directly to him personally. Last night I was reading about Spurs fans considering him being to blame for the break down of their purchase of Eze, that after he schooled them in the MGW saga. And there have been press articles written discussing whether he'll be turning up at the game on Sunday. Also, social media footage published on non-Forest outlets showing him waiting in the tunnel to congratulate each and every player after a win.

He's now an instantly recognisable figure in premier league football. Almost more recognisable than some big players. OMG how far we've come in these last few years. I love the fact he fights for everything. He doesn't mind being the bad guy and doesn't whinge and moan to the media. He's not perfect, he's done stupid things, but god are we lucky that the guy chose us.

(21-08-2025, 09:17 AM)Sausage Roll Wrote: Faint praise from Kaveh Solhekol on Sky Sports this morning. Talking about Palace and agreeing with the Martin Samuel article from yesterday which basically said that Palace would love an owner like EM.

(21-08-2025, 10:10 AM)Paplane Wrote: Last night I was thinking about the effect the big man is now having on English football. We know that most of the media attributed Palace's Europa demise directly to him personally. Last night I was reading about Spurs fans considering him being to blame for the break down of their purchase of Eze, that after he schooled them in the MGW saga. And there have been press articles written discussing whether he'll be turning up at the game on Sunday. Also, social media footage published on non-Forest outlets showing him waiting in the tunnel to congratulate each and every player after a win.

He's now an instantly recognisable figure in premier league football. Almost more recognisable than some big players. OMG how far we've come in these last few years. I love the fact he fights for everything. He doesn't mind being the bad guy and doesn't whinge and moan to the media. He's not perfect, he's done stupid things, but god are we lucky that the guy chose us.

(21-08-2025, 02:00 PM)McDurban Wrote:

(21-08-2025, 09:17 AM)Sausage Roll Wrote: Faint praise from Kaveh Solhekol on Sky Sports this morning. Talking about Palace and agreeing with the Martin Samuel article from yesterday which basically said that Palace would love an owner like EM.

There must be a chant in there somewhere for Sunday.

(22-08-2025, 03:09 PM)Salvatore Matrecano Wrote: Im going to say my piece here and it won’t be popular with a lot of you.

EM is undoubtedly the best owner we have had at Forest in terms of the way he has backed us financially and his desire to win at all costs cannot be doubted. He is right now on the crest of a wave in fan opinion, taken us to Europe, got us into a better competition than we deserved, fought off sales of our star player and has invested hundreds of millions

We know he is ruthless and that leads to some collateral damage along the way. Cooper was one, I've heard a few things about their relationship at the end and it wasn’t great to say the least. However I think we can all agree that change was inevitable and Nuno has taken us further than Cooper ever would have done.

Now is Nuno in the same position? Can we do better still? This is where I have my doubts. Who are we going to get? Jose, Marco Silva, Ange. Are any better? It certainly doesn’t make for continuity. The problem is that EM’s behaviour is widely known and a winner or not its clear he isn’t the easiest bloke in the world to work for. Therefore the pool of managers who are going to put up with him is diminishing rapidly. People mention Glasner, I don’t think he would last 3 months here and I doubt he would come and risk his reputation no matter how frustrated he is at Palace. Would Silva leave Fulham? Maybe and we know EM likes him but if he wants a safe job he will stay put.

Ultimately do you want to go and work somewhere when you know your boss is at best difficult to please and at worst a ticking time bomb? I have myself turned down jobs when I could have earned more money simply because it was known the boss was a d**k. Im sure football is no different.

Which leaves us with Ange and a squad used to a style of play totally the opposite to his. Goodness knows what the players think especially those who have just joined.  Before you say it no I don’t want EM out, reread my first paragraph.  It just seems we can’t be free of controversy at this club even when everything seems to be going well and Im fed up with it.

(22-08-2025, 03:09 PM)Salvatore Matrecano Wrote: Im going to say my piece here and it won’t be popular with a lot of you.

EM is undoubtedly the best owner we have had at Forest in terms of the way he has backed us financially and his desire to win at all costs cannot be doubted. He is right now on the crest of a wave in fan opinion, taken us to Europe, got us into a better competition than we deserved, fought off sales of our star player and has invested hundreds of millions

We know he is ruthless and that leads to some collateral damage along the way. Cooper was one, I've heard a few things about their relationship at the end and it wasn’t great to say the least. However I think we can all agree that change was inevitable and Nuno has taken us further than Cooper ever would have done.

Now is Nuno in the same position? Can we do better still? This is where I have my doubts. Who are we going to get? Jose, Marco Silva, Ange. Are any better? It certainly doesn’t make for continuity. The problem is that EM’s behaviour is widely known and a winner or not its clear he isn’t the easiest bloke in the world to work for. Therefore the pool of managers who are going to put up with him is diminishing rapidly. People mention Glasner, I don’t think he would last 3 months here and I doubt he would come and risk his reputation no matter how frustrated he is at Palace. Would Silva leave Fulham? Maybe and we know EM likes him but if he wants a safe job he will stay put.

Ultimately do you want to go and work somewhere when you know your boss is at best difficult to please and at worst a ticking time bomb? I have myself turned down jobs when I could have earned more money simply because it was known the boss was a d**k. Im sure football is no different.

Which leaves us with Ange and a squad used to a style of play totally the opposite to his. Goodness knows what the players think especially those who have just joined.  Before you say it no I don’t want EM out, reread my first paragraph.  It just seems we can’t be free of controversy at this club even when everything seems to be going well and Im fed up with it.

(22-08-2025, 03:18 PM)billywoly Wrote:

(22-08-2025, 03:09 PM)Salvatore Matrecano Wrote: Im going to say my piece here and it won’t be popular with a lot of you.

EM is undoubtedly the best owner we have had at Forest in terms of the way he has backed us financially and his desire to win at all costs cannot be doubted. He is right now on the crest of a wave in fan opinion, taken us to Europe, got us into a better competition than we deserved, fought off sales of our star player and has invested hundreds of millions

We know he is ruthless and that leads to some collateral damage along the way. Cooper was one, I've heard a few things about their relationship at the end and it wasn’t great to say the least. However I think we can all agree that change was inevitable and Nuno has taken us further than Cooper ever would have done.

Now is Nuno in the same position? Can we do better still? This is where I have my doubts. Who are we going to get? Jose, Marco Silva, Ange. Are any better? It certainly doesn’t make for continuity. The problem is that EM’s behaviour is widely known and a winner or not its clear he isn’t the easiest bloke in the world to work for. Therefore the pool of managers who are going to put up with him is diminishing rapidly. People mention Glasner, I don’t think he would last 3 months here and I doubt he would come and risk his reputation no matter how frustrated he is at Palace. Would Silva leave Fulham? Maybe and we know EM likes him but if he wants a safe job he will stay put.

Ultimately do you want to go and work somewhere when you know your boss is at best difficult to please and at worst a ticking time bomb? I have myself turned down jobs when I could have earned more money simply because it was known the boss was a d**k. Im sure football is no different.

Which leaves us with Ange and a squad used to a style of play totally the opposite to his. Goodness knows what the players think especially those who have just joined.  Before you say it no I don’t want EM out, reread my first paragraph.  It just seems we can’t be free of controversy at this club even when everything seems to be going well and Im fed up with it.

Fully agree with you, except that if EM got Nuno the sack I think that would be very hard to forgive for me. We are in a fabulous position with Nuno and EM needs to do what is best for the club and put his emotions aside.