The Manager Sack Race

We scored 74 goals in the league in his first season and 64 goals last season despite finishing 17th which was more goals than most of the league, including Forest. Our ability to score goals meant we were never going down.

I know goals doesn't automatically mean you're a good attacking side but I find it bonkers that anyone could consider Ange anything but an attacking coach. His biggest criticism at Spurs was that they were too attacking at times and that he needed to adapt in certain situations.

I'm not going to defend any of the other concerns people might have of Ange but he will want to get Forest playing attacking football. My immediate concern would be that it's probably too big a change between how Forest were under Nuno and how Ange will want them to play. Without a pre-season I think he'll need to be more pragmatic in that transition as it's going to be harder to implement with Forest playing three games a week for the foreseeable future but I don't think attacking football should be one of your reservations.

It'll be interesting to see how the likes of Murillo, Milenkovic, Sels etc get on. Some of Forest's defensive players (rightly) took a lot of plaudits last season but they won't have Nuno's style of football to fall back on anymore. We'll see if some of them are actually as good as their reputation or whether Nuno's style of football made them look better than they are.

 

I don't think anyone said he was an attacking genius. But despite finishing 17th last season only 7 teams scored more goals.

 

This is the thing. Any manager can get their team to score if they set them up how Ange did. It isn't rocket science to basically go overload 80% of the time. They shipped 6 goals at home to Liverpool last season and still pulled 3 goals out the bag.

Ange is more or less a pub team manager.

 

Interesting hearing the perspective of Forest fans here.

To be fair to Marinakis, everyone believed Forest would suffer after Cooper was sacked. Instead their trajectory went upwards. He is far from a perfect owner, & crosses the line, but you can't accuse him of not caring & being ambitious.

 

Postecoglu’s Premier League matches at Spurs yielded just shy of 3.5 goals per game.

You’re not going to be bored Forest fans

 

It's actually happening isn't it

 

He wouldn't, and even if he had a knock to the head and decided he fancied it he'd be blocked until his contract runs out.

Thankfully it's all irrelevant as Large Angelos has just been pictured arriving.

 

I do think Ange is a good manager and a lot of the criticism isn't fair.

What I would say is that his strategy relied heavily on the speed of Micky van de Ven and the stats back that up. 1.35 goals per game conceded with him on the pitch and 1.9 goals per game without him on the pitch.

It would've been smart to be more pragmatic without him in the side, but frankly I don't think that is his style and I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing either. The recruitment should've been more dialled in to plug that gap.

 

So much bollocks in one post, actually quite impressive.

Speaking of reverting to the mean, isn't it about time you lot went back to League 2?

 

People already have their minds made up on Ange so I didn't really want to get in to the other criticisms of him, I spent enough time defending him last season. I just wanted to make his case as an attacking coach. If nothing else, he should at least get credit for being that.

I'll join @Vito Andolini 's fan club and enjoy watching from afar and hope he proves some people wrong at Forest.

 

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“Look at me…”

 

On the face of it the whole thing seems like a pretty ridiculous downgrade for Forest.