According to reports, Nottingham Forest had an ‘approach rejected’ for their ‘Plan A’ to replace former head coach Nuno Espirito Santo for one key reason.

There has been major upheaval at Nottm Forest at the start of this season as controversial owner?Evangelos Marinakis sacked Nuno and replaced him with Ange Postecoglou.

Nuno did a brilliant job at Forest. Having taken over with the Premier League side battling relegation, he guided them to European qualification last season as they are currently competing in the Europa League.

Despite this, Nuno’s position at Forest became untenable at the start of this campaign as he had a major fallout with Marinakis and director Edu over transfers.

This means it was only a matter of time before Nuno was going to be dismissed and his exit came after Forest’s first Premier League loss of the 2025/26 campaign.

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Marinakis and Co. made another puzzling decision by appointing former Celtic and Tottenham Hotspur boss Postecoglou to replace Nuno.

Under Postecoglou, Tottenham’s Premier League form was dire last season, but he retained a good reputation by winning the Europa League.

Still, Postecoglou was always likely to struggle after replacing Nuno mid-season, as he adopts a completely different style of play and he is already under immense pressure after failing to win any of his first seven games.

Ahead of this weekend’s set of Premier League fixtures, Postecoglou is the favourite to be the next Premier League manager sackedand a new report has claimed that he wasn’t Forest’s first choice.

According to ESPN Brazil, Palmeiras head coach Abel Ferreira was their ‘Plan A’, though he ‘rejected Forest’s approach’ as he wanted to stay and prioritise a new contract at his current club.

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Despite this, the door is open for Forest to make a fresh attempt to appoint Ferreira in the future as his contract will not include a release clause.

The report claims:

‘Abel’s future contract , this time, will not include a release clause, and the situation applies to both parties.

‘In other words, the Portuguese player can leave without paying any amount, and the club can too.’

Speaking on Friday, Postecoglou issued a passionate defence of his abilities and pleaded with Nottm Forest to give him time.

He explained:?“Some look at the weeds but I look at what is growing. I am really excited as I have a group of young players willing to change,” he said, while also confirming he did not speak to owner Evangelos Marinakis during the international break.

“I am not wasting my time on what people think.

“I just don’t fit, not here, just in general. If you look at it through the prism of ‘I’m a failed manager who’s lucky to get this job’ then of course this first five weeks looks like ‘this guy’s under pressure’. There is an alternative story that you could look at it.

“I took over Tottenham and was told by the chairman at the time ‘this club has to win a trophy’.

“He said ‘we’ve tried to bring winners in, Jose [Mourinho] and Antonio [Conte] and it hasn’t worked, we need something different’. I was slightly offended by that because I see myself as a winner.

“We finished fifth my first year. Every time Harry Kane scored a goal I’d wish he’d just stayed one more year because it would have been handy to have him after finishing fifth.

“But somehow that year has disappeared from the record books. In fact, it was used as a reason for me losing my job because even Tottenham decided to exclude the first 10 games – because they were an anomaly, apparently. Although the first 10 games here are very important, apparently.”