{"id":15618,"date":"2023-12-20T03:26:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T00:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/15618\/nottingham-forest-in-talks-with\/"},"modified":"2023-12-20T03:26:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T00:26:31","slug":"nottingham-forest-in-talks-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=15618","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest in talks with Nuno as Cooper sacked &#8211; source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nottingham Forest in talks with Nuno as Cooper sacked &#8211; source\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Nuno Esp\u00edrito Santo was sacked as Al-Ittihad coach last month. <cite>Photo by Khalid Alhaj\/MB Media\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Nottingham Forest have started talks with Nuno Esp\u00edrito Santo to become their next manager after Steve Cooper was sacked on Tuesday following a run which saw them lose five of their last six games, a source told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Esp\u00edrito Santo has previously managed Premier League sides Wolves and Tottenham.  His last job was with Saudi side Al-Ittihad, who he guided to the league title in May before being sacked last month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Forest are 17th in the league and have won just one of their last 13 matches.  Cooper becomes only the second manager sacked by a Premier League club this season after Paul Heckingbottom was relieved of his duties by Sheffield <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/united\/\"   title=\"United\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">United<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSteve Cooper was today dismissed as head coach of Nottingham Forest, after more than two years in charge of the club,\u201d the club said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone at Nottingham Forest would like to thank Steve for his superb contribution to our <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/football\/\"   title=\"football\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">football<\/a> club,\u201d said owner Evangelos Marinakis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis success in guiding Forest to the Premier League will undoubtedly remain an iconic moment in the club\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cooper returned Forest to the Premier League 23 years after being relegated under legendary former manager Brian Clough, beating Huddersfield Town 1-0 in the 2022 Championship qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>He managed to bring Forest to safety in their first season in the Premier League, after the club signed 23 new players in the summer and then seven more in January, securing their survival with victory against Arsenal in May.<\/p>\n<p>Forest host Bournemouth in the Championship on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nottingham Forest in talks with Nuno as Cooper sacked &#8211; source\u060c Nuno Esp\u00edrito Santo was sacked as Al-Ittihad coach last month. Photo by Khalid Alhaj\/MB Media\/Getty Images Nottingham Forest have started talks with Nuno Esp\u00edrito Santo to become their next manager after Steve Cooper was sacked on Tuesday following a run which saw them lose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7953,4013,3993,7952,3797,811,1265],"class_list":["post-15618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-cooper","tag-forest","tag-nottingham","tag-nuno","tag-sacked","tag-source","tag-talks"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15620,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15618\/revisions\/15620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}