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Premier League-winning boss immediately identified as one possible Ange Postecoglou replacement
Roberto Mancini has emerged as a contender for the Nottingham Forest job, talkSPORT understands. Forest sacked Ange Postecoglou immediately after their 3-0 defeat to Chelsea on Saturday afternoon. Mancini has become a new option for ForestAFP Postecoglou was in charge for just 39 days after he replaced Nuno Espirito Santo in September, and lost all eight of his matches. It is the shortest Premier League reign of any permanent manager in history. Owner Evangelos Marinakis, who stormed out of the Chelsea defeat, has wasted no time sounding out a replacement. However, former Italy and Manchester City boss Mancini also looks to be in the running for the vacancy. It’s understood that discussions between him and the club took place after their Europa League defeat to Midtjylland. Mancini won the Euros with his country as boss, and also lifted the Premier League title with City in 2012. talkSPORT reported earlier on Saturday that Forest held talks with Sean Dyche, who wanted assurances beyond the current season. What has Dyche said about returning? Dyche has been out of work, besides the occasional talkSPORT appearance, since being sacked by Everton in January. Forest are keen on Fulham boss Marco Silva as a long-term option. However, they would face a challenge to get him out of his Cottagers contract before it expires in June 2026. Dyche is also a candidate to succeed Postecoglou at the City GroundGetty Silva could become available at the end of the seasonGetty Ex-Burnley and Watford boss Dyche is seen as a short-term fix, but wants assurances beyond the 2025/26 season. The 54-year-old, who was a youth player at Forest in the late 1980s, recently told talkSPORT he was open to returning if the opportunity was right. He said: “The bit I do miss about it is the day-to-day, working with the players, working with the staff. “I’ve had my staff with me a long time, they’re good people as well as mates, but they’re good operators, and building that rapport with staff. “We’ve got a good rapport amongst the staff and I think that goes into the players now, they connect themselves as well.” “The Leicester thing [links over the summer] was a complete myth. Not Leicester, not their fault, the media made out I’d been interviewed, I hadn’t been, so that was just noise. Postecoglou didn’t win a single match at ForestGetty “I’m not remotely sad I won’t go back in or any of that, but I mean it just takes time sometimes and the right job and the right situation and sometimes the right timing for the job and the job that I can do and the chance to fulfil that job.” Dyche managed 332 Premier League matches across his spells with Burnley and Everton. Forest would be his fourth appointment since his managerial career began at Watford in 2011. Forest crumble in Postecoglou tenure Espirito Santo signed a new contract until 2028 at Forest in June after qualifying for European football in his first full season. However, just weeks later, he was controversially sacked, and Forest quickly named Postecoglou as his replacement. The former Tottenham Hotspur boss was handed a tough start with a visit to his former north London rivals Arsenal, where he lost 3-0. Postecoglou went winless across his whole tenure at the City Ground Forest then led 2-0 away to Swansea City in the Carabao Cup, only to concede two goals in stoppage time to lose 3-2. Draws with Burnley and Real Betis followed, with a home defeat to Sunderland only adding to the winless run. Midtjylland and Newcastle also beat Forest ahead of the weekend visit of Chelsea, their eighth match without victory. Forest are now 18th in the Premier League, with the announcement of Postecoglou’s sacking coming just minutes after full-time.
Roberto Mancini has emerged as a contender for the Nottingham Forest job, talkSPORT understands.
Forest sacked Ange Postecoglou immediately after their 3-0 defeat to Chelsea on Saturday afternoon.
Postecoglou was in charge for just 39 days after he replaced Nuno Espirito Santo in September, and lost all eight of his matches.
It is the shortest Premier League reign of any permanent manager in history.
Owner Evangelos Marinakis, who stormed out of the Chelsea defeat, has wasted no time sounding out a replacement.
However, former Italy and Manchester City boss Mancini also looks to be in the running for the vacancy.
It’s understood that discussions between him and the club took place after their Europa League defeat to Midtjylland.
Mancini won the Euros with his country as boss, and also lifted the Premier League title with City in 2012.
talkSPORT reported earlier on Saturday that Forest held talks with Sean Dyche, who wanted assurances beyond the current season.
What has Dyche said about returning?
Dyche has been out of work, besides the occasional talkSPORT appearance, since being sacked by Everton in January.
Forest are keen on Fulham boss Marco Silva as a long-term option.
However, they would face a challenge to get him out of his Cottagers contract before it expires in June 2026.
Ex-Burnley and Watford boss Dyche is seen as a short-term fix, but wants assurances beyond the 2025/26 season.
The 54-year-old, who was a youth player at Forest in the late 1980s, recently told talkSPORT he was open to returning if the opportunity was right.
He said: “The bit I do miss about it is the day-to-day, working with the players, working with the staff.
“I’ve had my staff with me a long time, they’re good people as well as mates, but they’re good operators, and building that rapport with staff.
“We’ve got a good rapport amongst the staff and I think that goes into the players now, they connect themselves as well.”
“The Leicester thing [links over the summer] was a complete myth. Not Leicester, not their fault, the media made out I’d been interviewed, I hadn’t been, so that was just noise.
“I’m not remotely sad I won’t go back in or any of that, but I mean it just takes time sometimes and the right job and the right situation and sometimes the right timing for the job and the job that I can do and the chance to fulfil that job.”
Dyche managed 332 Premier League matches across his spells with Burnley and Everton.
Forest would be his fourth appointment since his managerial career began at Watford in 2011.
Forest crumble in Postecoglou tenure
Espirito Santo signed a new contract until 2028 at Forest in June after qualifying for European football in his first full season.
However, just weeks later, he was controversially sacked, and Forest quickly named Postecoglou as his replacement.
The former Tottenham Hotspur boss was handed a tough start with a visit to his former north London rivals Arsenal, where he lost 3-0.
Forest then led 2-0 away to Swansea City in the Carabao Cup, only to concede two goals in stoppage time to lose 3-2.
Draws with Burnley and Real Betis followed, with a home defeat to Sunderland only adding to the winless run.
Midtjylland and Newcastle also beat Forest ahead of the weekend visit of Chelsea, their eighth match without victory.
Forest are now 18th in the Premier League, with the announcement of Postecoglou’s sacking coming just minutes after full-time.
