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(05-03-2026, 11:59 AM)northeastred Wrote: (05-03-2026, 09:24 AM)Sniffer Dog (Admin) Wrote: Had an interesting chat yesterday.
Three names in the hat.
1. Marco Silva - Still the number one target whichever league we are in.
2. Steve Cooper - If Silva turns us down and most likely if we get relegated.
3. Vitor Periera - If Silva turns us down and we have a strong finish to the season.
I think silva has already turned us down, hope im wrong. The amount of times hes been strong favorite with every sacking why has nothing been done about it straight after nuno, could of paid the 8m release clause if he wanted to come. But we took risks with 2 managers. Knowing compo would exceed 15m. Something doesnt sit right. What was the personal reasons he suddenly left oly for Sniff? Do you know?. hope im feeling is wrong and he does come if vitor leaves. But we can clearly see the players are fighting for him, big weekend ahead. Hopefully city win and we do
No Silva hasn't turned us down mate.
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Fulham fans pretty unhappy with Silva right now.
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Not saying Vitor should be sacked etc etc
Just saying Evangelos best friend and Hero Valverdes is leaving Bilbao, wonder if he ever ends up here
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Walid Regragui is a new name I have heard.
We can add him to Silva, Cooper and Vitor.
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Thanks for info but thats a big risk, zero management experience at club level in Europe.
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I cancelled my subscription to the Athletic a while ago, though I notice there’s an article about how they got De Zerbi and how close they were to Marco Silva.
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11-04-2026, 02:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-04-2026, 02:47 PM by Salvatore Matrecano.)
Watched a bit of Thursday back and got me thinking I would love us to target a progressive young manager like Farioli, Porto weren’t perfect and lacked a finisher but I thought their overall play was superb and what I would like to see here.
We obviously need to stay up to get that quality but whilst Porto are a big club their squad was assembled for much less than ours, we could definitely attract someone like him. We need to decide what we want to be and how we get there. And I’m sorry to say this but that doesn’t mean employing our owners mates.
By the way, it should have been Edu’s job to be looking at forward planning like this. Whether he was or still is involved I have no idea but it’s a key part of director of football.
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Dont think Edu ever had any imput into manager selection Sal, as you say it's always seems to be a name in EM's little black book! Agree regards a young progressive coach but it will never happen at Forest under EM as he always go for "names".
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11-04-2026, 03:11 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-04-2026, 03:17 PM by Salvatore Matrecano.)
Doesn’t have to be that way and many clubs are going for the younger lesser known rather than traditional established names. The game is evolving quickly at the moment and I want us to move with it.
Cooper wasn’t a name and wasn’t in EMs book either. Believe a Spanish Portuguese or Italian will always be a better fit here in terms of personality.
