Stevie Cooper

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Its starting to gain traction now. Think they are looking to speak to a few managers it seems. Id hope we rejected the approach instantly.

I don't think we would.

Sniff if the club allow Cooper to leave without a fight, as a result of some unpublicised internal differences, then the consequences will be ginormous in the eyes of the fan base. Allowing him to go will end in almost certain relegation and that will be held against the owners for years. The whole season will pan out to be an unmitigated disaster and go down in Forest history the same as when Kevin Campbell was sold. The whole football world will consider us to be a nutcase club and they'd be right.

What do they do if he really wants to go though? It's a brilliant opportunity for him and a step up from us as it stands right now. I'd like to think that sensible fans would recognise that.

It's also massively presumptuous to say the season will end in almost certain relegation and be a disaster - that would depend on who we bring in and remember our fishing pool of managers is going to be somewhat different from how it's been in recent years in the Championship.

Who's saying a new manager couldn't do a better job? Some of Cooper's team selections have been questioned after the Bournemouth match after all.

Obviously Forest fans are going to hold Cooper in massive esteem after what he accomplished last season and rightly so. We don't know what he's thinking though and it seems that issue with the leaked news about his contract might have eroded some trust. If that's the case, and he's offered a really good opportunity with a stable and progressive club, then I certainly wouldn't blame him for taking it. But I wouldn't hold it against our owners and I wouldn't assume that automatically condemns us to doom this season either.