NOTTINGHAM FOREST are considering sacking Ange Postecoglou after just one month in the job, according to reports.
Forest have not won a game since the appointment of the former Tottenham manager on September 9.
And according to The Telegraph, owner Evangelos Marinakis wants Sean Dyche to step into the dugout if he decides to cut his losses on Postecoglou.
Dyche, a former Forest trainee, lives in Nottingham and has significant experience of keeping clubs in the Premier League.
Forest’s poor early-season form has left them teetering just one point above the relegation zone in 17th place, a far cry from their seventh place finish under Nuno Espirito Santo – who oversaw four of the five league points the club has earned so far – last season.
Former Everton boss Dyche would already be the club’s third manager of the season.
The 54-year-old left the Toffees in January, replaced by club icon David Moyes as he returned after 12 years.
However, Dyche is just one of several contenders for the position if Australian Postecoglou, who won the Europa League with Spurs last season before being relieved of his duties following a 17th-place finish in the league, is sacked.
Marinakis is understood to have considered Fulham boss Marco Silva and his former manager Steve Cooper, who now works for Danish Superliga outfit Brondby.
But with Dyche currently out of work, there would be no obstacles to him taking the role.
He twice earned promotion to the Premier League from the Championship with Burnley across a nine-and-a-half year spell.
Forest face Chelsea in their next game at the City Ground next Saturday.
Postecoglou is expected to still be in the dugout for that game, but could be axed if the club’s winless run extends to an eighth game.
Forest fans made their thoughts known during the Europa League defeat by Danish side FC Midtjylland on October 2 when they sang “you’re getting sacked in the morning” towards their own boss.
‘Nuno to Ange like reversing polarity of the planet’ – Martin Lipton
By Martin Lipton
IF the Nottingham Forest players are still feeling dizzy, you wouldn’t blame them.
They have spent the last 21 months playing risk-averse, counter-attack Nuno-ball.
Suddenly, overnight, they have now discovered the approach is defence-averse, “it’s who we are mate”, Ange-ball.
It feels like the footballing equivalent of reversing the polarity of the planet.
A total culture and attitude shift in the space of a few hours.
And given so much of Forest’s success is down to the strategy deployed by Nuno Espirito Santo, who galvanised his players into believing they added up to far more than the sum of their collective parts, even Evangelos Marinakis might accept it’s a roll of the dice.
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