Nottingham Forest have completed ‘unnecessary move’ ahead of the summer
Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis may have moved too quickly to sack Sean Dyche at the City Ground.
That is according to ex-Everton, Aston Villa, and Aberdeen chief executive Keith Wyness, speaking exclusively to Football Insider, who believes Nottingham Forest would have stayed in the Premier League with Dyche in charge.
Marinakis sacked Dyche just hours after Nottingham Forest had failed to beat bottom club Wolves, with the two sides have drawn 0-0.
It was a blow to Nottingham Forest’s survival hopes, with just three points separating them and 18th-placed West Ham in the table.
Evangelos Marinakis should have stuck by Sean Dyche
Everton’s former chief Keith Wyness – who served as CEO at Goodison Park between 2004 and 2009 and now runs a football consultancy advising elite clubs – thinks Marinakis was “too trigger-happy” to sack Dyche.
Speaking on the new edition of Football Insider‘s Inside Track podcast, Wyness believes the club should have made a change at the end of the season if they wanted Dyche out.
He told Football Insider‘s Inside Track podcast: “I think Dyche would have made them safe anyway. And I think he’s gone through an unnecessary move at the moment. And I think it would have been better to have made the move if he decided to in the summer.
“Mr. Maranakis, in some ways I admire him, the way he supports the club and has bankrolled it and is really keen for success. And then on the other side, I think he’s just a little bit too trigger-happy. And I think in this case, I think he could have stuck by Dyche.
“I think he would have been okay and realised that security might have been the best way. Dyche is a proven relegation battler, knows the whole territory, knows what he’s doing, and I think that would have been okay.
“So I think he may have just moved a bit too quickly, although we’ll see what the replacement does, but I think I would have been tempted to leave Dyche in there.”
Vitor Pereira faces daunting Nottingham Forest start
Marinakis acted swiftly to appoint Vitor Pereira as Dyche’s successor at Nottingham Forest, with the 57-year-old becoming their fourth manager of the season.
Whilst the club are still in the Europa League, Pereira’s aim will be to secure Premier League safety in the final 12 games of the campaign.
Pereira’s first Premier League match in charge will be at home to Liverpool, before trips to Brighton and Manchester City, in a tough set of opening fixtures for the new Nottingham Forest boss.