Nottingham Forest are set to appoint Nuno Espirito Santo as their new head coach and what Morgan Gibbs-White tweeted when he left Wolves is now very interesting.
Evangelos Marinakis chose to dismiss Steve Cooper after 27 months at the football club yesterday. Now, a replacement will need to be sought with the Portuguese manager set for the hot seat.
Forest star Gibbs-White, along with Willy Boly, have played under Espirito Santo previously at Wolves. The centre-back previously praised the head coach’s methods on the training ground.
Gibbs-White tweet to Espirito Santo is now very interesting
The 49-year-old left Wolves after winning promotion from the Championship and then claiming back-to-back seventh-place finishes in the Premier League.
He departed in May 2021 after 199 games in charge with Wolves. He won 95 of those and left with a win percentage of 47.74% and oversaw 277 goals during a fruitful time for the club.
Back in 2021 when Espirito Santo departed Molineux, Gibbs-White took to Twitter to wish his manager the very best for the future. The tweet posted was as follows:
Gibbs-White could thrive under new Forest manager
The 23-year-old has matured a lot since he played under Espirito Santo at Wolves. Back then he was just a youngster striving for regular first-team football.
Espirito Santo will be intrigued to see how much Gibbs-White has progressed at Forest. Last season he scored five goals and claimed eight assists in the Garibaldi.
A snip from an article in The Guardian has suggested where Espirito Santo may see Gibbs-White playing. They believe that the manager likes to utilise the Forest man through the middle and that bodes well.
This season has been more of a struggle for Gibbs-White and he needs to rediscover his spark. He’s only scored once during 2023/24, whilst David Prutton has criticised his set-pieces.
It would appear that the classy comment from Gibbs-White from, two years ago does bode well, however, for the future at Forest. The suggestion is that there is no animosity between the two and a healthy working relationship should remain.
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