Nottingham Forest are searching for a fourth manager this season after parting ways with Sean Dyche
Brian Dick Reach Football Correspondent
12:05, 12 Feb 2026
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Simon Jordan insists Nottingham Forest's Premier League struggles and managerial mess are on Evangelos Marinakis and has criticised the Reds owner after allegations he has based the decision to dismiss Sean Dyche on the view of players.
Marinakis parted ways with Dyche after Wednesday night’s 0-0 draw with relegation-bound Wolves, a game Forest dominated but were unable to find the all-important goal. It was a result that leaves them just three points above the drop zone with 12 games remaining.
As the news broke it has been claimed by The Telegraph some senior players are ‘understood to have recently expressed concerns over his coaching methods and tactics’ to Marinakis.
And Jordan says that approach undermines any manager.
“I saw various things that one of the newspapers was writing...about the fact that this was to do with his relationship in the dressing room with players, an exhaustive training schedule, which was depleting the energy of the players,” he told talksPORT.
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“The owner sitting down with players and taking their counsel I find mind blowing, but I guess it might be a symptom of the modern game, it's a reality.
“Sean Dyche, I felt was the extra sauce that would give them the grit and the resilience to turn this season from being an absolute car crash into one that's not great and might just keep them in the Premier League, and that's what I was talking about yesterday.
“When I saw the result, I didn't immediately draw my mind to the fact that Dyche would get sacked.
“I did think it was a very poor result. It was a game that they needed to win, Wolves are not quite the mugs that they were four or five weeks ago, but they're no great shakes, and you should be beating Wolves.
“If you look at the statistics it looks like Forest battered them, 35 shots on goal from what I can see, but the fact is this was a game that they needed to win.
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“Marinakis is unpredictable. Sean and Thomas Frank didn't see these things coming and perhaps they should, more so in Thomas Frank's case than Sean Dyche's because if Sean Dyche continued the run that he's on with the wins that they've got, they would be staying in the division.
“If he continues with a 30-33% win rate Nottingham Forest would be staying in the division because if they're going to get another five wins out of the last X amount of games, which that statistic bears out, they'd be staying in the division.
“Marinakis has obviously listened to players, and taken their view, and I hope that serves him well – and I mean that with my tongue firmly placed placed in my cheek, because it doesn't normally work out that way…
“If I'm an access point for players, what authority have I given my manager? If my players know that they can come round the door, round the side of a manager, and come to me, you have just made that manager a eunuch. What's the purpose of that?
“If you don't want the manager, fire him, but don't have a group of players with their particular disposition which is normally predicated upon something that they don't like or haven't got.
“I'm not interested in what they don't like. Do as you're told, play football to a high standard, and get on with your job and if the manager's not good enough, it'll out itself.”
Jim White asked the former Crystal Palace chairman if Forest deserve relegation. He replied: “Are they the architects of their own downfall? Have they inflicted themselves wounds? Yeah.
"Same guy that dragged them out of the Championship, same guy that bankrolled them, same guy that's got big ambitions, same guy that was behind the appointment of Nuno Espirito Santo that took them into Europe and has given them opportunities, deserves to have that currency – but this is on him.
“Nuno Espirito Santo is no bowl of cherries to deal with. I know people that have worked alongside him, he's not an easy character but it's not about easy characters, it's about people that can do their jobs.
“So it looks to me as if he was undermined by the owner, and that's why we had the tantrum and turn on the press conference that got him eventually sacked.
“Postecoglou, I cannot understand the fit, but that fit was preordained in his mind. He wasn't looking at the individual and the circumstances of the team that he had and what they could actually do.
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“He was looking at his pipe dream of what he felt was Postecoglou's brand of football and not really looking at the resource that Postecoglou was going to deploy. So he did right to pivot out of that quickly.
“He brought Sean Dyche in to do a job, which was not to make them have bells and whistles and and fly and be easy on the eye, it was to get them away from the relegation zone.
“I know that the result against Wolves is a bad result, it was a game they needed to win because it will stop the forward momentum of West Ham to some extent.
“Now West Ham know that they're in touching distance of Nottingham Forest. The West Ham team that were beaten by Nottingham Forest five weeks ago that looked dead on their feet are now alive.
“The fascinating thing will be who does he bring in and who is going to take it forward to provide the solution that he seems to believe that Sean Dyche is no longer capable of because he's listened to a group of players.
“What he clearly will be doing is managing the short term, because he cannot listen to players in the long term. Otherwise if you're going to listen to players in the long-term strategy of running a football club, what is the purpose of having a manager?”
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