Nottingham Forest are now âmore likely than notâ to sack Ange Postecoglou after they lost 2-0 to Newcastle United on Sunday, according to reports.
The Reds sacked Nuno Espirito Santo during the September international break after picking up four points from their opening three Premier League fixtures of the new season.
Forest decided to hire former Tottenham boss Postecoglou in his place after the Australian left Spurs at the end of last term, despite winning the Europa League.
Since Postecoglou has taken over, Nottingham Forest have taken just one more point from four Premier League matches, lost in the League Cup to Championship side Swansea City and picked up one point in two Europa League matches.
It has been a disastrous first seven matches in all competitions for Postecoglou and the Tottenham boss was on the defensive after their latest defeat to Newcastle on Sunday.
Speaking after the match, he said:Â âI expect to have a discussion with the owner and everyone at the football club about what we have embarked on here and where weâre at and what we need to do, for sure, yes.
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âIf people want to make an assessment on me after three and a half weeks, there is nothing I can do about that. At the same time, there is nothing wrong with things being tough â itâs OK!
âI had an option â I could have been sitting on a couch watching the game today and not been in the middle of it. I would much rather be here. I love a fight. So what if itâs a fight, if itâs a struggle? Itâs OK!
âIf people outside donât think Iâm the right person â or even internally donât think that â it makes no difference to me. I took this role on knowing it would be a massive challenge in terms of what weâre trying to do and changing the direction of the club.
âNothing I have seen in the last three and a half weeks has changed my view on that. I love the challenge of taking this club to where it needs to be. Iâm very confident weâll get there.â
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There have been reports of an âemergency SOS meetingâ at Nottingham Forest over Postecoglouâs future with former Manchester United chief scout Mick Brown â who is still well-connected in the Premier League â insisting itâs âprobably more likely than notâ that the Australian gets sacked over the international break.
Brown told Football Insider: âI have no doubt questions will be asked of Postecoglou.
âGiven how the owner there tends to operate, heâs not going to be afraid to pull the trigger if things arenât working, and at the moment it clearly isnât.
âGoing into the international break, itâs probably more likely than not because it gives them a couple of weeks to sort things out and find somebody else.
âTheyâre coming off the back of a fantastic season, so this season was always going to be difficult.
âIâm not sure they were ever going to match what they did last time, even with Nuno in charge.
âNow, Postecoglou has come in and he wants to change their whole style of play, theyâve gone from a defensively solid counter-attacking side, to the opposite.
âThat style didnât work at Tottenham, and itâs not working at Forest, so the owner will be looking at that and theyâll be concerned about the results because they havenât been good enough.
âThe problem is, you lose a few games and all of a sudden the sky falls on top of you.
âIt seems theyâre going to have talks, the manager and the owner, so weâll see what comes of that because it didnât exactly end well for Nuno.â
