Nottingham Forest sacked Sean Dyche after a 0-0 draw with Wolves at the City Ground, and a manager who led Leeds in the Premier League is now on the shortlist.
Dyche was sacked shortly after midnight on Thursday as Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis decided to roll the dice once again on the Premier League status of the football club.
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What a mess!
Forest have three more points than West Ham, who have won three of their last four Premier League games to pull uncomfortably closer to the Reds in the fight for survival.
Vitor Pereira is the early favourite for the job at Forest, but he’s not alone on the shortlist compiled by the club, it would seem.
Nottingham Forest place Javi Gracia on shortlist
According to Team Talk, Gracia, who recently walked out of Watford for a second time, has been added to the shortlist as Forest ponder their move for a new manager.
Gracia has managed a number of clubs, with his Premier League experience coming at Leeds when he oversaw 12 games at the end of the 2022/23 campaign, winning three and drawing two of them.
With that in mind, his record perhaps doesn’t scream of someone who can keep Forest in the Premier League, but he does have a lot of experience.
Gracia has managed Almeria, Osasuna, Malaga and Valencia in Spain, with two spells at Watford coming either side of a 22-game stint with Al Sadd, when he won 16 of 22 matches.
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This wouldn’t be a decision to galvanise the fan base, and his less-than-impressive CV would hardly inspire.
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Pereira has experience of being in a relegation dogfight, and he led Wolves to survival at a canter during the 2024/25 campaign.
Things did turn sour for him at the start of this season, but that came after his prized assets had been stripped and not replaced.
At Forest, he would have a decent group of players to work with and with an injection of confidence, he could be the man to get everyone signing from the same hymn sheet at the City Ground.
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