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05 Oct 2025 16:05:22
Stop blaming the players and start blaming our owner.
Marinakis met Postecoglu in July at a Greek awards/ draw ceremony i believe.
This is after he ran on pitch and berated Nuno at the end of last season.
This is after he hired Edu.
This is after Edu started sanctioning £200m of new signings, which one assumes Nuno had little say in. How are they working out?
No wonder Nuno got hacked off. Was he so wrong to say he didn't have the same relationship with Mr M as before?
This may go down as the worst managerial change in Prem history. Can anyone think of a worse one?
Mr M has to make a change and it needs to be a good one. But who knows what the players are thinking and who knows who comes next.
Mr M has done a lot of good in his time of course - but he now needs to step up and make a change and start a process of renewal at the club.
1.) 05 Oct 2025 21:17:09
With apologies I should have asked for that to go on Banter site.
2.) 06 Oct 2025 05:48:20
Marinakis is like Trumpty but without the dementia.
3.) 06 Oct 2025 12:58:33
ForestCAgen, quite remarkable turn around by Mr Marinakis, from giving Nuno a new contract, then a break down in communication between the two in 7 weeks, it may cost us a season fighting for our Premier league place?.
4.) 06 Oct 2025 17:48:33
The contract gave Nuno the opportunity to say what he actually thought knowing he, d be expensive to sack, but M with more money than sense decided he show who is Boss.
Act in haste repent at leisure.
5.) 08 Oct 2025 21:23:32
I blame the players who were already here and whoever didn't recruit sufficient cover in defence. The new manager and Nuno made mistakes (we've been sh14 since April 1st last season) but the form of our key players is nowhere (MGW, Wood, CHO and recently Sels) and the new boss doesn't even have half of the defence that Nuno was lucky didn't get injured last season.
SO who didn't sign what we need? Who is not capable of doing a job this season like put a ball in the net? Who gives the ball away all the time (I'll give you a clue: It definitely isn't Ange and is MGW). Who caused the injuries to our defence (CLUE: NOt Ange).
I'm sick of hearing the hate that is based on Tabloid BS. Grow a pair and admit what the real problems are at Forest!
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09 Jan 2026 22:33:59
Well done Wrexham, hats off to a great effort by them.
This is our net spend below (league position in brackets) in the 4 seasons since we got promoted. Think it puts us in top 6 in Prem over that time.
25/ 26: £-97.28m
24/ 25: £-15.58m (7th)
23/ 24: £-42.28m (17th)
22/ 23: £-167.48m (16th)
For sure we have signed some good players in that - MGW, CHO, Murillo, EA, Wood, some others - but so much has been wasted.
I know there are a lot of people who say ‘be careful for what you wish for’ as it can worse (Fawaz, Scholar, others we remember). But the simple fact is the club is not seemingly well run. We are also a club people now seem to almost laugh at.
Is it any surprise that many of the apparently worst run clubs, end up getting the weakest results? Wolves, West Ham, Us, Spurs, MUtd.
I’m just so fed up with it. It’s all such a waste of an opportunity. We have all waited so long. What is our plan?
We may well stay up - just - but we are totally reliant on about 5/ 6 quality players + we have an owner who is never likely to stop moving on coaches, hiring and firing, maybe even marching onto the pitch again. It doesn’t help.
It’s such madness. Why oh why can we not just have a plan, some stable, senior club management, and a constant approach.
Don’t even get me started on the bulk of the summer signings.
Am I enamoured by Dyche - no I am not.
But nothing will really change, until our whole approach changes. Everything else is noise.
1.) 09 Jan 2026 23:36:09
Good post pal
It's annoying isn't it
But we were never ready for Europe
List the two most influential players from last season and their goals and assists
Elanga and wood
The players bought in just don't get the pace of the premier, bakwa ndoye?
They both want to. play in their own time
Thise two will never hack the premier with that attitude
Dyche hasn't a clue tactically and is by passing the best midfielders we have had
Jesus has to fight a losing battle every game with those tactics
Premier survival is all that matters now
We'll be out of Europe soon and Dyche fate will be sealed along with stone and woan and cheerio ho to them
Re group in the summer with a new coach who won't be English.
2.) 10 Jan 2026 03:52:02
Good measured post Agen.
03 Jan 2026 20:02:55
Nearly all the chaos and the results we are therefore seeing, come from Mr M’s brand of ownership in my view.
The constant upheaval and constant guessing. Is anyone else just a tad fed up of it all?
Throwing £200m at players and somehow making the squad worse. Hiring Edu. Hiring Ange after meeting him in public whilst Nuno was still manager. Firing Ange. Hiring Clattenberg. Going on the pitch to berate Nuno.
In Yr 1 we just stayed up because of Awoniyi’s heroics, Last year we did well partly due to Wood’s unbelievable efficiency in front of goal.
This year? We have clearly lacked goal threat all season (not addressed in the £200m somehow! ). The morale is low, all this change would irritate a saint at times so no wonder the players are all over the place mentally. We are already on our third manager in 5 months and it all seems self-induced madness to me. 4th manager incoming if we lose to Wet Ham?
£40m on Strand Larsen? We probably will and god knows if that will be good money spent. PSR is not our friend.
It’s all just such a mess, a self-inflicted mess, and I for one am just fed up with it all…. Oh for the quiet life.
1.) 03 Jan 2026 20:37:28
It’s never boring though, just image winning all the time.
2.) 03 Jan 2026 20:37:43
It's a self inflicted shambles Agen. No wonder dtp is trying to swap his season ticket for Segs recliner ?.
3.) 03 Jan 2026 20:48:08
I'm always there and would never swap, that's the difference between us
Seen far worse over 60 years and still kept going.
4.) 03 Jan 2026 20:50:17
ForestCAgen that is the most brilliant post I think I’ve ever seen on here mate.
To reinforce what you have so superbly said, have a look at the game today….
One side was 3rd from top, one was 4th from bottom
One side is sensibly run as a club, one is in a permanent state of chaos
One side has made good steady signings to strengthen the squad, not necessarily expensive either. One has a scattergun approach, massive turn over in players and variable quality.
One side spends money wisely, the other spaffs a lot of it up the wall with either poor quality incomings or players who never pull on the red shirt
One selects a good manager then gives him over 3 years at the helm, one chooses the 3rd manager this season then wonders why some fools are calling for his removal after less than 3 months
One set of owners performs its task quietly and efficiently and one owner does the opposite and wants to constantly be the centre of attention and makes a series of rash decisions and actions, leading to demoralized players and staff.
And makes us a laughing stock in the process.
One club is playing in the European Championship this season and probably top 4 for next season. One club is relying on SD to do another in a long series of successful rescue operations against the odds
Why are you surprised?
5.) 03 Jan 2026 21:11:36
I don’t agree that he wants to be centre of attention. Dyche is a poor manager, the only foolish thing was employing him in the first place.
6.) 03 Jan 2026 21:12:16
You'll probably find Villa are in the same European competition as us. ?.
7.) 03 Jan 2026 21:15:49
Great post StokeyRed.
I never thought we would stay long in the Prem because of this approach. Outside of the football squad, we have lots of incomings, outgoings etc too (Wilson recently, others). Never any stability….
8.) 03 Jan 2026 21:54:27
Great post ForestCAgen. You describe it exactly as it is. A self-inflicted mess.
9.) 03 Jan 2026 22:22:59
I must congratulate on the post because of the response. However, just think without big M's input/ income, still having Fawaz not paying bills on time, signing Arab players we've never heard of. Be careful what what you wish for, or you become a certain age and all you do for the rest of your life is moan moan moan, about how great things used to be.
20+ years out the prem, loving going to and losing to Oldham etc. This season is becoming testing to say the least but come on we've had much worse.
10.) 03 Jan 2026 22:38:21
I have to say that this a great thread, with superb posts from both Agen and Stokey.
Nail, head, hit. Couldn't be summed up better gents.
11.) 03 Jan 2026 22:58:49
Now that's a post MV and bang on the money.
12.) 04 Jan 2026 06:38:45
Dyche will take us back to the Championship. He needs sacking sharpish.
03 Jan 2026 13:31:44
I rarely post on here as tempers flare, but I have always felt that our Owner needs accountability at time - more than he seems to get on here.
You can blame Edu if you want but frankly even if he did decide the signings, the point i why have we spent £200m? What a catalogue of errors. Why?
Who is even looks half decent? Perhaps Hutch? Jesus sometimes?
We were obviously short of quality full back cover and up front. Even before Wood got injured.
Our owner is one step forward, one step back. For every proclamation such as naming the stand in Robertson’s name (positive idea) there is one thing quickly which makes little sense (complaining about VAR).
This is an owner who cares - I get that - but running onto the pitch to confront our manager of the time in front of everyone, dining and appointing Ange, signing players when Nuno was still here, but which were inherited by Ange, hiring Clatternburg.
It has to stop. We need some cool, calm heads. We’ve now lost Wilson and other senior management figures too. Do we have any?
None of this is ideal. I sound negative I get that, but I am fed up with trying to feel positive. My gut has always told me we won;t stay in the Prem long because everything is just too chaotic.
p. s. I like Dyche but don't rule out a new manager in the next few weeks if results stay as they have been.
1.) 03 Jan 2026 13:51:10
Good post Forestc.
I don't think any manager/ Coach would be able to get anything from Forest!
It stems deeper than just the management.
For all the good Marinakis has done his arrogance and hot headedness will the the Club's downfall.
01 Nov 2025 14:23:42
1 goal in 7 games is it?
That is the key stat that has to change if we are to avoid relegation (as obvious as it sounds) and I have to think that SD will make us tighter at back.
Time to see if we can score without Wood, as that’s been a rare thing in Prem, albeit attacking players is where we’ve spent the lions share of our as yet unproven £190m.
Good luck today.
1.) 01 Nov 2025 15:56:33
We are making chances just can not score!, becoming desperate and seems it's getting to the players and snatching at shots.
2.) 01 Nov 2025 16:13:06
Absolutely Brilliant, see it's EASY UREDS.
3.) 02 Nov 2025 09:24:35
AcAgen we scored two mate. Also scored in Europe. Squad is short on confidence and structure, fitness also an issue apparently. Stoked on the performance, sort out set piece defence, aina, Dominguez, wood back, we will be strong.
27 Oct 2025 17:33:10
I left this site years ago because of the rubbish I received when I was critical of our owner.
This is a guy who appears to lack any kind of patience and who works things in a way which I genuinely think is incompatible with the stability and careful budgeting we need.
To let Edu spend 190m, then sack Nuno and hire AP is madness.
Throw in Clattenburg, a confrontation with our successful manager on the pitch, and what do we have?
190m? How about spending half of that on the ground?
He has money, but does he have the ability to help the company slowly evolve and slowly succeed.
We now have a manager designed to keep us up so in a weird sense I’m hopeful he may have seen some sense.
The odds of staying up when you have less than 10 points after 10 games are historically v low.
I’ve supported the team for 45 years but in an odd way this feels the most frustrated I’ve been.
Time to hope SD gets out 4 or 5 top players firing. As that’s the only way we stay up.
1.) 27 Oct 2025 18:07:07
Welcome back mate! Frankly, I couldn't agree with you more.
I've just replied in a similar vein to DTP below.
2.) 27 Oct 2025 18:10:47
Good post Forest! And welcome back. I’ve been critical myself of the long list of Mr M s “ indiscretions “ and serious errors of judgement since he arrived ( whilst also praising his commitment, passion, ambition and investment).
He does have a penchant for sacking successful managers though, firstly Cooper and now Nuno ( having firstly set them both up to fail).
Like you, I’ll get me little tin hat on….
3.) 27 Oct 2025 18:25:50
So you can't remember the fawaz years then?
4.) 27 Oct 2025 18:30:35
Good post forest you need to be a strong person to stay on this site and voice your opinion all opinions welcome that's what the sites about but not everyone will agree so you just after bite your lip and carry on. voicing what you believe in everyone is welcome back I mean look at dtp is nickname is the terminator ???.
5.) 27 Oct 2025 18:55:09
I remember the Fawaz years and those before when we were close to the bottom of division 2. The current owner might have his faults but for me he only wants the very best for Forest, even if he has some odd ways of going about it. On a separate note it was my mothers cremation today, she was a Forest season ticket holder for over 50 years and the last few years informing her of the promotion followed by last years incredible achievements really perked her up and, if only for that, i thank Mr M.
6.) 27 Oct 2025 19:03:44
I'm loving your well-measured posts on here recently Skegs.
7.) 27 Oct 2025 19:18:52
Yes. Powerful post Forest, hard to disagree with any points you made. Does make me think about relegation though, even if I feel it is to early! Is it?
8.) 27 Oct 2025 19:26:12
DTP - this has been simmering for a while. So, let's get things straight with you at last. You have recently posted that you're a 68 year old male who only cares about the future. Yet, you now bring up Fawaz to respond to posts by others discussing the present and hoped-for future.
You also take a swipe at Stokey for 'wasting his time' with his reading. What on earth do you think you're doing on this site? Um, reading.
I've also noticed that you have a talent for twisting things subtly in your favour. Fair play to you for that intelligence - but I see through it.
Generally, I used to enjoy your posts in the past DTP. But something seems to have changed with you recently and it's for the worse. I hope to see the previous-DTP back again.
9.) 27 Oct 2025 19:28:55
Yeah that Marinakis! What a disaster for the club. Premier League football, EUROPA League, 145th most valuable squad in World football.
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10.) 27 Oct 2025 19:32:42
DTP what’s Fawaz got to do with it? We were talking about the present incumbent.
Fawaz was, if anything, even more of a disaster. At least Mr M has football experience with Olympiacos rather than the literal and football desert of Kuwait. But both have and had failings which need calling out.
Forests fears for our future are well founded imo.
11.) 27 Oct 2025 19:54:35
Good post forest.
As Skeg state's opinions vary and if they sway in a certain way some believe you're some sort of alien for saying as it is. ??.
12.) 27 Oct 2025 20:24:16
Lego, stop stalking DTP. It's getting weird! ?.
13.) 27 Oct 2025 20:25:41
Been a fan for 45 years and this is the most frustrated he's ever been?
OK then not just fawaz, Doughty then was far more frustrating than anything anyone is witnessing now imo
Is that a good enough reply without wrighting a sermon?
14.) 27 Oct 2025 20:27:27
Thank you legolas and cyclist did he get us to them places or was it cooper and then nuno really with a no hope squad of players assembled in bulk buying. he got rid of them both OK the football wasn't great to watch sometimes but the coaches knew what they were doing and proved it fact but the coaches became bigger than Mr ms ego and he doesn't like that now we're staring championship football in the face if I was a betting man with plenty of money in my pocket I would put it on us going down.
and don't worry about Mr m he will get his money back not like he needs it and move on leaving forest in the crap.
15.) 27 Oct 2025 20:30:58
Lego I was far worse as 79 way before you came on, so you haven't been reading it that long
Chill out
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16.) 27 Oct 2025 20:31:51
The club is in the best place it's been in decades. What is this total nonsense? ???.
17.) 27 Oct 2025 20:34:51
Oakham condolences nate and well said.
18.) 27 Oct 2025 20:39:07
Skeggs marinakis isn't going anywhere and how would he get his billion pounds back?
19.) 27 Oct 2025 20:56:01
I don't know now actually. maybe he should ask edu that question seeing as though he's spending all his money ???.
20.) 27 Oct 2025 21:10:43
DTP - I can assure you that I'm chilled! I hope that you don't mind me speaking my mind about your posts. I mean no malice.
Cyclist - I am not stalking DTP! However, looking through his kitchen window now I'm amazed that he uses a cheap brand of washing-up liquid and not Fairy.
21.) 27 Oct 2025 21:14:48
Sorry for your loss Oakham. And great that your mam got to hear about forest in Europe and all that they've done over the last few years. and also great for the new young kids that are following forest now and seeing what we seen many years ago that's what it's all about.
but I still think maranakis as pressed the self destruct button because of his ego.
22.) 27 Oct 2025 21:45:19
But you refuse to see how nuno has talked himself out of a job, it's definitely got to be marinakis fault or edu can't possibly be nunos fault
Anyone wanting marinakis out, mainly carlo, needs their head looking at.
23.) 27 Oct 2025 21:53:22
Say what you like lego, doesn't bother me one bit
Lego I got two dishwashers BTW, an electric one and the Mrs and an ironing board I bought the Mrs for Xmas along with a vacume cleaner ????.
24.) 27 Oct 2025 22:18:42
Handbags at forty paces again ayy gents. ??.
25.) 27 Oct 2025 22:25:42
What an awful day for you Oakham. Many of us on here have been through the same thing and, frankly, it's s****y. However, what a lovely final part to your message about your Mum. It sounds like your news of Forest put an inward-smile on her face.
Try to stay strong.
26.) 27 Oct 2025 23:02:37
Well, obviously it does DTP or you wouldn't reply to me! I'm glad that you saw the funny side of my post. I bet Mrs DTP was elated with those romantic Xmas gifts! Do you want me to get rid of the bag of rubbish currently sitting outside your patio doors?
27.) 28 Oct 2025 06:54:23
FF, DTP is pretty measured poster, I only recall him turning on one manager in the 11 years I’ve been on here. If he’s worried we should all be worried. The days of ND (God rest his soul) and fawaz are highly relevant their ownership years left any new owner with a huge mountain to climb from a football club infrastructure perspective.
If thoughts are gathering about turning on the owner good luck with that. Can the electrician in the house please disconnect the mains feed and remove the fuse board from the wall ?.
28.) 28 Oct 2025 12:28:09
History will prove Nuno, s word were correct.
29.) 28 Oct 2025 13:07:24
He's all ready proved his point carlo. he said he didn't get the players he wanted to build the team on and make them better and ready for a massive season. We'll look around you point proven can't argue with that.
30.) 28 Oct 2025 14:26:07
Nuno was right about the full backs, no question. Sending Caubano on loan looks like a pretty dumb mistake in retrospect.
Nuno should have kept what was going on between him, Marinakis and Edu in private though. He also should have got on with the job he was paid £millions to do whether he agreed with decisions taken above or not. We've all had to do that in our lives when on far less money.
I bet Stokey didn't sit in a presser slagging off his bro, the Chief Constable in public and he wasn't on £3M a year or whatever Nuno was on. I wasn't allowed to discuss in public what was going on between me and my manger at the college. It's taking the pee and he also took the money. It's wrong. The boring footy and being sussed out since March just makes it worse.
31.) 28 Oct 2025 14:40:28
Exactly GoldStars/ 2Stars, comparing with previous owners, is exactly what anyone turning on the owners should do. Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Marinakis and his lieutenants are not perfect, nobody is. They will make mistakes, like anyone else. But Marinakis appointed Cooper, appointed Nuno, funded our rise to Europe and the Prem.
They have also kept together a squad (minus Elanga) that qualified for Europe and added some good young players, many of whom are paying in the toughest league in the world for the first time. If Dyche can only just keep us up then that is a failure and Marinakis will, quite rightly, agree IMO.
So are we blaming the players? The coaches? The owner? Edu? Syrianos? People working under them?
It's obviously complex, and blaming the owner is simplistic nonsense of the first degree. The owner has the club in the best place it has been for decades. THINK ABOUT IT!
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32.) 28 Oct 2025 17:17:30
You are right Cyclist. Slagging off the CC ( or any Officer) was a disciplinary offence under the police discipline regulations. I think “ bringing the Force into disrepute “ probably covered it.
05 Oct 2025 21:17:09
With apologies I should have asked for that to go on Banter site.
03 Jan 2026 21:15:49
Great post StokeyRed.
I never thought we would stay long in the Prem because of this approach. Outside of the football squad, we have lots of incomings, outgoings etc too (Wilson recently, others). Never any stability….
14 Oct 2025 21:06:01
Feels OK to point out the positives and also the negatives. If you want our Chairman to show his ‘passion’ by marching onto the field to berate our excellent manager, to hire Mark Clattenberg, to hire Edu, to sack Nuno, to hire Ange…. be as supportive as you want.
The only reason Ange hasn’t gone is because he was clearly Mr M’s own hire…. and that’s what makes this period difficult.
Will he stick or twist? If we twist and end up with Dyche, how will you feel about it then?
02 Oct 2025 21:52:47
Cannon and Ball? Hue and Cry? Dumb and Dumber? Hardcastle and McCormack?
20 Sep 2025 15:54:44
Let’s hope we only concede one.
18 Sep 2025 12:48:38
Sorry ‘possibly’ not ‘probably’.