Nottingham Forest head coach Nuno Espirito Santo looks to have made a rod for his own back.
The Forest head coach publicly spoke out about his relationship with Evangelos Marinakis before last weekend’s game against Crystal Palace, and the uncertainty has been rife.
Talks will take place between Marinakis and Espirito Santo during the international break with Forest going into it on the back of a 3-0 defeat at the hands of West Ham.
Gary Lineker has suggested how the talks might pan out and made a claim as to which side of the argument he sits on after this shocking defeat for the Reds.
Gary Lineker makes Nuno Espirito Santo claim
Lineker hosted his weekly episode of The Rest is Football after the weekend’s games had been concluded, and the pundit has made a claim about Espirito Santo.
The Forest boss has been critical of how his relationship with Marinakis has been during the summer, and his future does feel like it’s up in the air.
Lineker thinks the fact that this has played out in public only ends one way, with the pundit thinking Espirito Santo might have dropped the ball in this situation.
He said: “I just saw the Nuno issues and him speaking out about the owner, and I just thought, this might end badly. I didn’t see it being a 3-0 game, but a great result for West Ham. I just had a silly feeling it might go wrong for Forest.
“I hate to talk about managers like this, but when you speak out publicly about the owner, yeah, it’s not good.”
Nuno Espirito Santo needs talks quickly with Marinakis
The fact that Espirito Santo left lots of the summer signings on the bench yesterday until it was too late to change anything won’t have appeased Marinakis.
The head coach is walking a tightrope at the moment and with a two-week break until the next match, these talks simply can’t come soon enough.
Lineker is right to be totally honest. There is no way in the world that Espirito Santo can come out on top of this debacle and Marinakis will almost certainly be reading him the riot act when they sit down.
Forest need some transparency with the situation and it remains to be seen whether Espirito Santo will continue at the City Ground.
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