Postecoglou sack? Nottingham Forest make decision as 'disrespectful' fans told to 'pack it in'

Ange Postecoglou has been given a stay of execution by the Nottingham Forest hierarchy after a terrible run of form, according to reports.

The Reds sacked Nuno Espirito Santo, who guided them to a European place in the Premier League last season, in the September international break and replaced him with former Tottenham boss Postecoglou.

Postecoglou won the Europa League last term with Spurs but was under pressure for most of the season because of their lowly Premier League position.

And Postecoglou has won just one point in four Premier League matches since he’s arrived, been knocked out of the League Cup by Championship side Swansea City and won one point from two Europa League fixtures.

That led to Nottingham Forest fans chanting for him to be sacked in their 3-2 defeat to Danish side Midtjylland in the Europa League last week.

Forest lost 2-0 to Newcastle United on Sunday, which is one of the toughest away fixtures in the Premier League, and now there are rumours that the Reds owners are considering his future.

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But Football Insider insist that Nottingham Forest have now made a ‘sack decision’ with Postecoglou ‘set to be afforded time’ by the owner Evangelos Marinakis.

The report adds: ‘Sources say that despite their poor run of form, Nottingham Forest are unlikely to sack Postecoglou during the international break.

‘Instead, the former Spurs boss is set to remain in his position until at least the visit of Chelsea in two weeks time.’

The Nottingham Forest board will ‘require immediate improvement’ if Postecoglou is to keep his job much longer with the Chelsea and Porto matches following the international break ‘set to be pivotal’.

Former Crystal Palace chairman Simon Jordan has torn into Nottingham Forest fans criticising Postecoglou and demanding him out of the club.

Jordan told talkSPORT: “Go find out how many teams are gonna go up to Newcastle and turn Newcastle over at St James’s Park. So really and truly, the hell is going on.

“It’s disrespectful to the manager. It’s disrespectful to the owner, wherever you think of Marinakis, whatever you think of what he did to Nuno Espirito Santo, the one person in that football club that’s got unadulterated currency is Marinakis.

“He dragged this football club, financially by his own will, out of the doldrums of 23 years of being outside the Premier League, stuck them in the Premier League, and has done everything he said he was going to do. So, by the way, I think he’s got the currency to change a manager if he wants to. Postecoglou wins things. Postecoglou takes hold of the press conference. Pack it in and how about supporting people, rather than constantly telling people what you think you’re entitled to.

“You’re supposed to be supporters. Yeah, that’s the key component of the equation. Read the title ‘supporter’. You’re supposed to support things.”

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Alex Crook, who is talkSPORT‘s chief football correspondent, insists that Postecoglou should have made a better start at Nottingham Forest with the squad he’s got.

Crook said on Monday morning: “He’s had chances.

“As much as Newcastle’s a difficult game, Swansea in the League Cup when you’re 2-0 up isn’t a difficult game to win. Midtjylland at home in the Europa League is one you simply have to win.

“And look at what he was saying in the press conference after, I think one of the things he said was, ‘I don’t have to be here, I could be on my couch watching at home.’

“I’m sure that will go down well with Forest fans, because he’s not doing them a favour by taking this job, and he also mentioned it was always going to be a fight. Did it really have to be a fight?

“Because this is a Forest team who, for a long part of last season, looked like they would qualify for the Champions League.

“They reached an FA Cup semi-final, they spent big in the summer, this is a good team.”

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