Nottingham Forest’s ‘personal relationships’ take a battering after ‘troubling’ development
Nottingham Forest will struggle to maintain personal relationships with players if they continue changing managers.
That is according to ex-Everton, Aston Villa, and Aberdeen chief executive Keith Wyness, speaking exclusively to Football Insider, who states four managers in one season is “too much.”
Nottingham Forest have become the first side in Premier League history to appoint four permanent managers in one season.
Vitor Pereira has become the club’s latest manager following the sacking of Sean Dyche, with Nuno Espirito Santo and Ange Postecoglou having also been in the City Ground dugout this campaign.
‘Concern’ around Nottingham Forest changes
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 – believes stability is needed at Nottingham Forest.
Speaking on the new edition of Football Insider‘s Inside Track podcast, Wyness thinks Pereira was the best manager on the market the club could have appointed.
He told Football Insider‘s Inside Track podcast: “Four managers in a season. I don’t think it’s been done before, and it is just too much.
“And you got to think, you know, the cost alone of all the training wear, putting different initials on them. I’m joking, of course, but it’s quite ridiculous.
“But the disruption in terms of the personal relationships is the biggest thing I always concern myself with around clubs, because it is still a man-management business, and it’s a human business and that much change in any organisation that’s based around human performance is troubling.
“I think Vitor Pereira was probably about the best replacement they could have found. So we wish him luck, and I’m pretty sure Forest will be okay.”
Nottingham Forest star could make mid-season exit
Nottingham Forest striker Igor Jesus has been the centre of transfer interest with the window in Brazil still open until March 3rd.
Flamengo have made an enquiry over signing Jesus before the deadline, but Nottingham Forest have no intentions of selling the striker.
The 24-year-old has nine goals in all competitions this season since his arrival from Botafogo last summer.