Nottingham Forest face 'so many problems' following Ange Postecoglou appointment
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Charlie Grace
Wed 10 September 2025 20:02, UK
Nottingham Forest shocked the Premier League by dismissing Nuno Espirito Santo and replacing him with Ange Postecoglou.
Espirito Santo hit the headlines after a row behind the scenes at Nottingham Forest left the Portuguese head coach’s position in doubt.
Football Insider exclusively revealed that Nottingham Forest were prepared to sack Espirito Santo if crisis talks with the 51-year-old were to fall through.
Speculation linking Postecoglou with the Forest job began last week as Bayer Leverkusen and Fenerbahce also both courted the Australian for a move.
Ange Postecoglou faces a big challenge at Nottingham Forest (Credit Imago)
Postecoglou was dismissed from his role at Tottenham Hotspur earlier in the summer after his side’s Europa League victory in May.
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“Nottingham Forest under Steve Cooper were a team that tried to be hard to beat, and Nuno Espirito Santo continued that but a had a little bit more flair about it, but they still had the hard to beat mantra and their defensive record was excellent.
“They tended to let teams out-posses them but they had some wide guys at the time like Anthony Elanga, Callum Hudson-Odoi, and Chris Wood who has had the season and a half of his life.
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“That was good enough to get them almost into the Champions League, now the big question was could you keep that going?
Postecoglou’s Spurs side conceded 126 goals in 76 Premier League games across his two seasons with the club, finishing in fifth and 17th, and winning the Europa League to top off his spell.
Ange Postecoglou 2023-2025Nuno Espirito Santo 2023-202576Games62138Goals for93126Goals against881.8GF per game1.51.6GA per game1.4Ange Postecolgou’s Premier League record vs Nuno Espirito Santo 2023-2025
Meanwhile under Espirito Santo, Forest have conceded 88 goals in 62 games since the former Tottenham and Wolves coach took over in December 2023.
At the other end of the pitch the 138 goals in Postecoglou’s two seasons vastly overpowers the 93 Espirito Santo’s Forest achieved but the control never felt like it was there during a Spurs performance under the Australian.
The appointment of Postecoglou may lead to being a masterstroke by Evangelos Marinakis, or it could work to dispel everything, Espirito Santo did right, to rebuild Forest’s top-half Premier League status.