Postecoglou Sacking and Dyche Links Highlight Marinakis Panic as Nottingham Forest Chaos Returns
Thanks to some ridiculous self-defeating by Evangelos Marinakis, Nottingham Forest has created a situation where Sean Dyche is a suitable Ange Postecoglou alternative.
Before calling in a firefighter whose present job entails starting the “Utter Nonsense!” podcast and making an appearance as Kerry Katona’s pretend pal on a celebrity dating reality series, it takes a particular type to purposefully light your own prosperous circus on fire.
And for that to potentially be a major managerial upgrade, a certain type of team is required.Nottingham Forest and Evangelos Marinakis would do better in the Premier League.
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Although it may appear that the owner and club are not the greatest for each other’s health or personalities, they have turned into the most captivating automobile crash that makes it hard to look away.
Reversing a club’s most successful campaign in thirty years in just five months is an impressive and nuanced effort of crisis-related self-sabotage.
Last season, Nottingham Forest qualified for continental competition, finished seventh in the Premier League, and advanced to the FA Cup semi-final.
In their first home game back in Europe since 1996, the coach, who had been in charge for 24 days, was informed by his own fans that he would be “sacked in the morning,” and there were hardly any arguments left against it.
It takes whiplash to go from Nuno Espirito Santo to Ange Postecoglou and now, potentially, Sean Dyche.
Nuno was fired not because he was a bad football player, but it’s ridiculous that after winning three of his last nine Premier League games, he was replaced by a coach who had only won one of his previous twelve games.
It’s amazing to note that Nuno has won more European tournament games in his career than Postecoglou and Dyche combined.
There could be a kind of course correction, a method in the chaos. It would be an admission of a lost wager, a return to the low block safety net following an unsuccessful attempt with a high line.
Despite having been involved in two Burnley relegations prior to being fired by Everton in 16th place earlier this year, Dyche is as close to a proven modern commodity in that situation as anyone. Nottingham Forest has put themselves in a relegation battle.
After the spectacular chaos of the 2022–2023 season, the Premier League unfortunately seemed to have outgrown the type of box he checks: Dyche Knows The Club. He was a member of the Forest junior team during the Brian Clough era.
He lives in Nottingham and has Steve Stone and Ian Woan as trusted employees. Eliminating these illusions of Forest grandeur can be accomplished in harsher ways if the Postecoglou experiment is to be dismissed so quickly.
Although there are better options, Marco Silva would likely be quite costly, therefore Marinakis should keep his eventual caretaker role for times of extreme need.
Do not be misled, though; this is a serious identity issue. As near to an admission of guilt and regret as the owner is going to make when he reboots to factory settings, Sam Wallace’s statement in the Daily Telegraph exclusive about Marinakis being “understood to have considered his former manager Steve Cooper” was illuminating.
With references to how he “steered” Everton “through the crisis days at the end of the Farhad Moshiri era before leaving in January” as if he hadn’t been fired and how he “has significant experience of keeping teams in the Premier League” as if he wasn’t also relatively well-versed in helping bring them down, it does feel a little like that story was ghostwritten by a Sean D. or S. Dyche.
However, it is important to reiterate that a club that recently hired Mark Clattenburg in a real official role could do far worse than Dyche when they had to press the panic button.
The fact that they are in this situation so quickly after the genius of the previous season, with so much apparently sacrificed at the shrine of Kia Joorabchian and Edu Gaspar, is simply absurd.
When the most corny football caution ever becomes true and applicable, it is ultimately a historic moment. “Oh, it’s a great club,” I think when I see these managers heading to Forest.
Last month, Roy Keane cautioned, “Listen, watch what you wish for.” “What do you think will change given this owner’s past?” Only the manager is ever in command when Marinakis is in charge.
“Good luck if you shake hands with the devil,” Keane continued. Best of luck. Dyche wouldn’t be the first one who believes he can be an exception to the rule of lunacy, and Postecoglou wouldn’t be the first or last to be burnt.
