Ange Postecoglou: Nottingham Forest head coach below strain with journey to Newcastle essential

Strain is mounting on Ange Postecoglou lower than a month into his new position at Nottingham Forest and Sky Sports activities Information has been instructed proprietor Evangelos Marinakis won’t hesitate in eradicating the pinnacle coach if performances and outcomes don’t rapidly enhance.

Postecoglou has did not win any of his first six matches in cost and it’s clear one other defeat and poor efficiency at Newcastle on Sunday – reside on Sky Sports activities – might be essential in seeing the present ranges of endurance wane throughout the Forest boardroom.

The worldwide break might be very important for the 60-year-old’s future, particularly contemplating he was introduced in to interchange Nuno Espirito Santo in the course of the earlier one in September.

Nonetheless, Postecoglou retains the quick assist of the membership’s hierarchy, who solely need to give attention to the pivotal recreation at St James’ Park.

Some Forest supporters chanted for Postecoglou to be sacked in the course of the Europa League defeat to Midtjylland on Thursday – his fourth defeat since changing Nuno, who was sacked after falling out with Marinakis.

It’s thought there’s anger among the many Forest hierarchy on the efficiency of referee Willy Delajod in opposition to Midtjylland and that has supplied some mitigation of their evaluation of how the crew – and the pinnacle coach – carried out.

However defeat at on Sunday would make Postecoglou the primary everlasting head coach since 1960 to fail to win any of his first 4 league video games on the membership.

Postecoglou is in a private Premier League rut – he’s winless in his final 10 video games, bearing in mind his final seven matches at Tottenham earlier than he was sacked on the finish of final season.

If he have been to go away in the course of the worldwide break, it’s more likely to break Alex McLeish’s 40-day tenure as Forest boss again in 2012, and Sam Allardyce’s document of 30 days at Leeds because the shortest Premier League reign.

Ange: Strain would not enter my head

Postecoglou admitted earlier on Friday he can not afford to “fear about what will occur subsequent week”, as an alternative specializing in making an attempt to get his facet out of its dangerous run of kind.

“I get it [speculation about his future] and it’s a legitimate assumption in trendy soccer,” he mentioned. “There’s all the time a supervisor below strain however I don’t suppose that approach.

“Put it this manner, I knew I used to be getting sacked at Tottenham about three of 4 months earlier than I did and it didn’t cease me profitable one thing.

“It [pressure] doesn’t enter my head. My duty lies in ensuring this membership progresses and will get to a place the place it could possibly problem for issues. If I begin placing timelines to that, to begin worrying about what will occur subsequent week, then I’m not going to be performing the position I used to be given and I simply don’t suppose it’s useful to anybody.

“On the finish of the day, the issues I management are the surroundings, the coaching, the best way we play and, as I mentioned final evening, I’m nonetheless very sturdy in my perception that we aren’t too far-off.”

‘Solely having six video games would not sit proper with me’

Jamie Redknapp on Sky Sports activities’ Premier League Present:

“It’s kind of loopy. He is six video games into his tenure. If it is six months and so they’re nonetheless performing like this and in a foul run, then I get it as a result of that is simply the best way soccer is. However six video games would not sit proper with me.

“On the finish of final season, Nottingham Forest have been actually struggling. They have been in an awesome place to get prime 4, however they completed poorly and so they’ve began poorly [this season].

“Once you try to herald a distinct philosophy with a distinct supervisor… no matter you consider Nuno, they gained video games 1-0 and have been tough to beat, they sat again and counter-attacked brilliantly with tempo on the break, and Chris Wooden was in a purple patch.

“This season, they’ll change and he’ll need to play a distinct type of soccer, and that can take time.

“Daily in coaching, completely different classes, getting used to it and extra forward-thinking. His philosophy is totally completely different to Nuno’s.

“It’s a must to give the gamers time to adapt and undoubtedly greater than six video games. That does not make sense to me.”