Nottingham Forest have announced the sacking of their head coach, Nuno Espírito Santo.
The decision, reported by BBC Sportbrings an abrupt end to Nuno’s tenure less than two years after his appointment, despite him guiding Forest to a seventh-place finish last season and into the Europa League, their first European campaign in almost three decades. His contract extension in the summer suggested stability, but growing friction with club ownership proved decisive.
Nuno himself admitted in recent weeks that his relationship with Evangelos Marinakis, Forest’s majority owner, had deteriorated. Speaking to the media in August, he revealed that the dynamic was “not the same” and “not so good as it was last season.” Those words appear to have sealed his fate, with sources suggesting Marinakis had been weighing a change ever since. A reported falling out with technical director Edu only deepened the cracks.
On the field, Nuno earned the admiration of Forest supporters, reinvigorating a squad that had battled relegation fears in previous years. The seventh-place finish in 2024/25 was heralded as a remarkable achievement, marking Forest’s highest league finish in over three decades.
Yet early results this season offered a more mixed picture. Forest sit 10th after three games, collecting four points, with his final game in charge of the club resulting in a 3-0 loss to Graham Potter’s struggling West Ham side.
Forest’s next game will be a visit to the Emirates Stadium to face Arsenal.
