'not Best Time To Speak' But Forest Need To 'address What's Happening'

As Nottingham Forest proprietor Evangelos Marinakis flashed a thumbs up to nan City Ground, supporters collapsed into little applause.

The Greek businessman was concisely pitchside earlier Sunday's astonishment 3-0 nonaccomplishment to West Ham and will now look to spot up immoderate imaginable rift pinch leader Nuno Espirito Santo.

There is awesome respect and reverence for an proprietor who has bankrolled Forest backmost to Europe and it showed no-one is taking sides betwixt proprietor and manager, contempt Nuno's frustrations.

Nuno will meet pinch Marinakis to talk nan club's early during nan world break after his outbursts complete nan club's slow-moving transportation business and revelation their narration had changed this summer.

"It's not nan champion time to speak," said Nuno aft nan loss. "We person to reside what is happening. The occupation now is much astir nan team, I'm worried astir nan squad because it was shocking.

"It [defeat] doesn't help, everyone is very sad. But location is nary relationship [for nan talks]. We person to abstracted it and move guardant successful nan correct direction."

The Portuguese's comments complete nan past 2 weeks person travel arsenic a astonishment but Nuno has nary regrets astir his honesty, going nationalist pinch his concerns pursuing what has intelligibly been a worrying summertime for him.

Forest started nan play good capable pinch a thumping triumph complete Brentford and a tie astatine Crystal Palace, only to beryllium good beaten by West Ham - a conclusion which came from nowhere.

Marinakis flew into nan UK connected Friday aft attending nan Europa League tie - pinch Forest opening their first European run for 30 years astatine Real Betis connected 25 September - and was successful nan stands successful his accustomed spot to watch.

Nuno was nan driving unit of that European comeback, guiding them to seventh successful nan Premier League past play and only missing retired connected nan Champions League connected nan last day.

Together, nan brace person restored Forest to wherever galore person grounded since they were past relegated from nan Premier League successful 1999.

There has been truthful overmuch advancement since Nuno joined successful December 2023, and a affirmative solution would beryllium successful everyone's interests.

The guidelines of Nuno's complaints was that Forest had been incapable to propulsion nan squad together quickly enough, specified value he puts connected pre-season preparations.

The nine person still spent astir £150m, pinch Omari Hutchinson joining from Ipswich for a grounds fee, James McAtee signing from Manchester City and bringing successful Douglas Luiz connected indebtedness from Juventus.

They still want different goalkeeper and left-back earlier Monday's transportation deadline pinch Botafogo defender Cuiabano and goalkeeper John Victor expected arrivals.

Nuno should yet get what he wants, conscionable not erstwhile he wanted it, and it will now beryllium up to nan caput coach to accommodate having antecedently preferred to activity pinch smaller squads.

With Forest successful Europe, connected apical of their home duties successful convention and cup, moving a mini squad would person been intolerable and foolish.

There will beryllium activity retired earlier Monday's 19:00 BST deadline though, Nuno not wanting to person players hanging astir who simply are not going to play.

He said: "I deliberation we person to do it. We want to person each nan players successful nan squad motivated. The nine is trying to do that. There's still 1 time to spell and aft that we will spot nan image of our squad."

But is he happy pinch nan squad?

"Let's spot erstwhile it's complete we tin reply nan mobility better," he said. "We person bully options but erstwhile nan squad is wholly complete we tin make a amended judgement."

He was acold much relaxed successful his pre-match property convention connected Friday, successful opposition to his disappointment stance earlier games pinch Brentford and Crystal Palace.

He said he expected to still beryllium successful complaint astatine nan extremity of nan world break, erstwhile Forest spell to Arsenal, yet BBC Sport had been told his position was uncertain, amid suggestions of a breakdown of relations pinch world sporting head Edu.

The erstwhile Arsenal sporting head was officially appointed successful July, and elder Forest sources person said they had been unaware of Nuno's unhappiness, though Nuno gave noticeably short answers erstwhile asked astir Edu connected Friday.

Marinakis himself expects to soft complete immoderate problems.

He told TNT while successful Monaco for nan Europa League draw: "Everything is solid. We each want Nottingham to succeed. We are present successful nan bully days but we are moreover person successful nan difficult days, truthful personally I don't spot a problem.

"We are each together, united, and we'll make immoderate corrective actions and everything will beryllium soft and fresh to go.

"We person a coagulated relationship. Of course, sometimes we tin beryllium nervous, opportunity 1 thing, opportunity another, but what counts astatine nan extremity of nan time is nan existent narration betwixt maine and Nuno, betwixt Nuno and nan players and betwixt nan players and ourselves."

Nuno's opinionated among nan fans is ne'er going to beryllium damaged successful 1 defeat, moreover if nan City Ground was virtually quiet by nan last whistle against West Ham.

Defeat was unexpected but Forest were sloppy and, but for Matz Sels, it would person been worse.

Only Dan Ndoye - a £34m signing from Bologna - of nan summertime arrivals started while Igor Jesus, Hutchinson, McAtee and Arnaud Kalimuendo made small effect coming disconnected nan bench.

It strengthens Nuno's statement Forest needed much recruits and extent earlier arsenic those who person joined are yet to make an contiguous impact.

His constituent is they request clip to adapt, to furniture into nan squad and understand nan accuracy and measurement of working.

That clip was mislaid earlier successful nan summer, successful Nuno's view. A costly hold for personification who put truthful overmuch into nan squad dynamic.

Monday's transportation model will close, nan parties will talk and Nuno and Marinakis must find a resolution.