Outspoken Forest chief goads Marinakis with new outburst

NUNO ESPIRITO SANTO has been around long enough to know that when a manager calls out his club’s owner there can be only one outcome.

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So, the Nottingham Forest head coach’s decision to volunteer that his relationship with Evangelos Marinakis had broken down, presumably beyond repair, will not have been made off the cuff.

Instead his comments appeared calculated, delivered calmly moments after speaking glowingly about the four players to have been signed by Marinakis at a cost of £100million in the past week. It was almost as if Nuno, 51, was talking himself out of a job. The former Tottenham and Wolves manager said: “We’ve been in the industry for a while and where there’s smoke, there’s fire, so I know how things work.”