Nottingham Forest are eyeing former Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho to replace Nuno Espirito Santo
The 2025-26 season is going to be a new start for Tottenham Hotspur in more than one ways. For starters, the team is going into this new season under a new coach, as Spurs replace Ange Postecoglou with Thomas Frank after the end of the last season.
Similarly, there has also been a significant change in the team since the UEFA Europa League conquest of the last season. Son Heung-Min, one of the most recognizable Tottenham players of the last decade, has left the team, and new arrivals like Mohammed Kudus are set to mark a new era at the North London club.
Fortunately, this new era has started in a very encouraging fashion for the Lilywhites, as Thomas Frank has led his team to 2 victories in 2 Premier League matches so far, including a 0-2 win against one of the biggest sides in the league, i.e., Manchester City.
However, there are some other clubs in the Premier League who have not had such a good start to the new season, and trouble is already brewing there. This seems particularly to be the case with Nottingham Forest, where Nuno Espirito Santo’s position is becoming increasingly tenuous.
The Portuguese manager is reportedly involved in a conflict with the recently appointed Sporting Director Edu, who joined Forest in July after leaving Arsenal. Furthermore, Santo’s relationship with the President Evangelos Marinakis is also not too good, as the manager himself admitted in a recent presser.
Nottingham Forest are eyeing former Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho to replace Nuno Espirito Santo.
Former Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho one of the candidates to replace Santo
In such a context, Nottingham are looking for a new manager, and as per a report from The Sun, two former Tottenham head-coaches are being linked with a place on the Forest bench.
The first, and the more notable of the two, is the Portuguese tactician Jose Mourinho, who is currently coaching the Turkish side Fenerbahce. Although he did not enjoy a lot of success with Spurs, the ‘Special One’ has proven record in England, as he won 3 Premier League titles, 4 League Cups, and 1 FA Cup with Chelsea, and also won 1 UEFA Europa League title and 1 League Cup with Manchester United.
The other former Tottenham coach linked with Forest is none other than Ange Postecoglou, who left the North London club at the end of the last season, having led his team to a UEFA Europa League triumph.
For now, it remains to be seen how this managerial situation at Nottingham Forest develops, but if one of these two coaches takes the job, Forest’s matches with Tottenham would take on another exciting aspect.