NU KNOWS HOW IT WORKS

Decision to 'call out' controversial Forest owner is likely to end badly for manager

- BY ALAN SMITH

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

The Nottingham Forest head coach's decision to reveal that his relationship with Evangelos Marinakis has 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 new 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 Spurs and Wolves boss admitted: "We have all been in the industry for a while now. And where there's smoke, there's fire, so I know how things work."