Sabri Will He Stay Be Sacked Or Quit

[ThePromisedLand]

If he’s going to be gone by October - best to part company now.

[wassy04]

The only problem for Sabri will be that he is now tarred with the negative tactics brush and I fear he will over compensate and we end up with a warburton start. He’ll be gone by October anyway!

The short turn around certainly won't help, pre season will start in a few weeks. Think he'll struggle to rebuild confidence in that time. I'd prefer to keep him but I think this dismissal would make a lot more sense than some of our previous ones.

[Strawberry Avenger]

We were negative and payed the price.

SA.

[Strawberry Avenger]

The players were shattered. Mentally weak. Ill prepared.

I didn't hear pre-match fight from Sabri but generic waffle. And hid post watch comments in both games suggests he didn't have the answers or self belief.

He seemed lost.

Doesn't matter what anyone thinks.

Only the owner. Marinakis.

SA.

[Strawberry Avenger]

How ironic.

Sow limped off the field.

...and Forest followed him...limped...well...were booted out the play offs by a team with more fight and bottle.

SA.

[Legs On Stilts]

I'd love Dyche, Woan and Stone but its fanciful at best. It'll be some unknown again I'd imagine.

[Tricky]

Well I hope its still Sabri.

What happened, happened. Why? I have got no idea. Did the players bottle it? Did they seriously expect Stoke to roll over for them and have their belly rubbed? Complacency from the players maybe? We don't know!

We have been poor since the restart, there is no getting away from that fact. But Sabri has been picking the strongest side available to him. Yes, he f****d up with the formation on Sunday, but what else has he done that hasn't worked for the rest of the season?

What more could Sabri do when we equalised? He couldn't run onto the pitch and make the side attack more. Did he instruct the team to get the equaliser then sit back and try to kill off the game with 30 minutes plus stoppage time on the clock? I don't think he did. I think he was probably mortified at what his players were doing. It wasn't his fault Sow had to limp off in the first half.

Did he miss the chances that just would not go in for us? 

All Sabri could do was prepare the team for the next game. If players were telling him they were ok and good to go, even though they had their own personal doubts, fears, trepidation's, what was he expected to do? Look into their heads to see if they were being honest?

It was the players that bottled it last night, not Sabri. He put out a very strong side. He could do no more, but it is his head on the chopping block, not any of the players. 

Was it Sabri's fault that Reading went down to ten men and Swansea scored 4 goals? No! But it could be him that loses his job.

I love Forest with a passion, always have and always will, but I do get so sick and tired of players not giving everything for the shirt they should feel honoured to wear. And when things do end up going tits up, like yesterday, they are not the ones held accountable, but the manager.

I hope that on this occasion, EM will have seen that Sabri did all that he could yesterday (can't take the blame away from him for Sundays debacle) to see us over he line and it was the players who let the club, themselves and the fans down, not the Manager.

I also get sick and tired of our fans constantly demanding a new manager when things don't go according to plan. We have been doing this for over 2 decades and it has won us the grand total of f**k all! How about, just for a change, we decide to stick with a manager. Actually give him a chance to build on what he has so far built. Let him prove he is capable of going that little bit extra next time out. 

Let me just say this...........Nottingham Forest F.C. are 155 years old. In those 155 years, how many times have we won the 1st Division/Premier League? Once. F.A. Cup? Twice. European Cup? Twice. League Cups? 4. European Super Cup? Once and the Charity Shield? Once. If you include the '66/67 season, Forest have only been successful for about 10-15 seasons. 10-15 seasons out of 155 years!!! It is what it is and we are what we are, basically an average football team with dreams to emulate those glory years gone by. Sadly, we are no longer something special! Those glory years have gone. Oppositions fans love to take the piss out of our obsession with our past. That has gone. We are living the now..........the present! We have been mis-owned and mis-managed. We have been the heroes and the villians. 

I could say more about certain things, but will hold my tongue as I do not want getting kicked off this site for speaking my mind.

Yes i am still hurting from yesterday. Yes it was embarrassing. Yes I am angry. But I am a long standing supporter of this mighty club and I have seen the lows and the highs and will still be back there, when it is safe to do so, when I can, cheering those on who are wearing the famous Garibaldi. 

Now is the time to get behind our club, our players and most importantly, our Manager and cheer them on to better things, to greater achievements, to believe in ourselves once again.

[ThePromisedLand]

I’d just pick you up on one element Tricky.

Sabri has not always picked his strongest side - if he had we wouldn’t be debating our failure to reach the play offs.

[Madforit]

According to Wayne(facebook fame) he seems to think Lamouchi is staying and that Anigo and Modesto are leaving, take of that what you will, true or bs.

[ThePromisedLand]

Wouldn’t be the worst outcome.
Would just worry though about who would then drive recruitment given the extreme tight deadlines this close season.

[PsychoStanleyStone]

As much as I like him, the way we have finished this season is terrible.

5 in defence vs Barnsley one of the strangest things I have ever seen.

Defensive managers tend to just miss out, and we miss out to attacking teams and have done for years.

It was the Barnsley game for me, we set up to give ourselves the best chance of losing, no offensive plan or variants, made all the players look like fools.

[BadDog]

Louis Ducruet, son of Princess Stéphanie of Monaco and assistant to AS Monaco vice-president Oleg Petrov, has left the Principality's club, both parties announced at the same time on Thursday.

Employee of the club since 2015, Louis Ducruet has worked in the sales department and then in the recruitment unit. Since February 2019, he was assistant to the club's vice-president, Vadim Vasilyev at first, then Oleg Petrov.

"It is with great emotion that I announce my departure from my favorite club, AS Monaco," said the son of Princess Stéphanie on his Instagram account.

"It is time for me to try a new adventure, a new challenge which will allow me to gain more experience," he continued before thanking the club's staff, employees and supporters.

According to various sources close to the club, Louis Ducruet should quickly find the former Monegasque François Modesto as well as the former sports director of Marseille, José Anigo, and work for the structure which manages the clubs of Olympiakos Piraeus, in Greece, and Nottingham Forest in England.

This highly publicized and symbolic departure of Prince Albert's nephew further accentuates the gap that is growing between the Russian billionaire Dmitri Rybolovlev, majority shareholder of the club and still embarrassed by legal cases in the Principality, and the Princely Palace. .

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