On September 03 2025 22:47 WombaT wrote:
Having said that what’s the chance they go for a newly available Mourinho or something if Amorim does leave?
Speaking of Nuno and his spot. If it were other owners, given what’s publicly known, I’d say Nuno’s position is totally untenable and it’s just a matter of time, but with Marinakis I’m not so sure. He strikes me as quite the volatile chap, but this can go in both directions. The kind of bloke who’ll have a gigantic argument with you one night, then show up with a bottle of fine wine to apologise and you’re mates again another.
While the owner is the guy who put him in situ, so that’s a source of friction, from what I’ve read Nuno’s real frustrations are with the sporting director (is it Edu, can’t remember?). Maybe Marinakis changes his mind and decides to side with the bloke that got Forest challenging for a CL spot than the new bloke through the door in this particular power struggle?
Maybe I’m reading too much into things on the other hand!
You've pretty much hit the nail on the head.
Edu was hired to look after the high level decision making for all clubs in Marinakis' group. Nuno thinks Edu should listen to him about transfer targets, Edu thinks not. Forest's 'attempts' to sign Nuno's targets seemed to all just disappear at one point. I'm not sure if that has something to Nuno apparently being extremely aggressive in pushing for this stuff and being purely anti-Edu from day 1 of Edu working at the club.
There is a 'factional' issue here too, with Nuno being a Mendes guy. Mendes is a competitor of Edu, and will recommend transfers to Nuno that will make Mendes lots of money. Edu is preventing that from going through and having his guys make the money.
Marinakis naturally wants to take Edu's side because his network of links in the game is ridiculous and he can get players other guys would never be able to get.
The number 1 factor here though is whether we can get someone Marinakis thinks is better than Nuno. He's said this openly a bunch of times, that the only relevant factor in decisions about managers is whether the new one is better than the old one or not.
People say he's volatile, but not when it comes to absolutely massive decisions like this, he's not volatile at all. If anything he's the opposite, he hung on to Cooper for a good 18 months after it was first suggested by everyone in the world that he sack him. He waited for Nuno.
I would say Nuno is definitely the volatile element in this situation. The fans are absolutely furious at him and its remarkable how quickly he's burned through alot of the good will from last season. Its early days but the fans are even asking whether he is refusing to play Douglas Luiz because he hates Edu so much.
I'm not sure about the Ange situation. TBH I think Marinakis would always make himself available to talk to a 'top' coach, but I'm also sure those conversations would be entirely hypothetical at first. They were both at the same event, it doesn't mean he's hiring Ange.
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