#Nuno Espirito Santo

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dear Nuno Espirito Santo... please do a funny. I beg you 🕯️🙏

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Nuno has Forest in 4th while Spurs are 10th, I will take it. 😂 Keep up the good work coach, I’m here for this. 👏🏾

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The custody wars have started

Kloppo @ Wolves chilling before the game. That girl 😂

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Steve Cooper is SACKED as Nottingham Forest manager - with Nuno Espirito Santo set to replace him

Nottingham Forest have sacked boss Steve Cooper and are in talks to appoint former Wolves and Tottenham boss Nuno Espirito Santo as his replacement. The 44-year-old has paid the price for a run of just one win in 13 Premier League games, which has seen Forest plummet to just five points above the drop zone. Nottingham Forest statement on Steve Cooper’s sacking Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis…

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Former Tottenham flop manager Nuno Espirito Santo SACKED by Saudi side despite bringing in Benzema and Kante | In Trend Today

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Former Tottenham flop manager Nuno Espirito Santo SACKED by Saudi side despite bringing in Benzema and Kante | In Trend Today

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Nottingham Forest playing like it's 1989!

I think I am going to party like it’s 1999! That’s, of course, the famous lyric from Prince’s hit song. Well, in Nottingham Forest’s case, they’re playing like it’s 1989, the season where they finished in the lofty position of third. Of course, in that season, the Pine Trees were under the management of the late Brian Clough. This season, they are under the leadership of Nuno Espirito Santo, the…

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spurs fans are in the replies to every tweet about the fan kicking ramsdale saying “should have kicked hugo, dier, conte, levy, sonny, alasdair gold, gareth bale, dele, himself, ndombele, nuno espirito santo, my friend katy who once said hugo was hot, and those two fucking hideous stadium mascots”

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Who is to blame for the downfall in recent years at Tottenham Hotspur? And what’s next for Spurs?

It’s only been 4 years since Tottenham Hotspur competed in their first ever UEFA Champions League final and despite losing 2-0 to Liverpool, Spurs fans were excited to see what the future would bring.

With what seemed to be the perfect coach and a team full of potential, they looked ahead to more cup runs and potentially their first trophy since 2008.

Fast forward to the present day and Tottenham sit in 6th place, struggling to qualify for any European competition after sacking their manager and then also their interim manager.

With fans becoming more and more restless and with repeated calls for owner, ENIC group to sell the club, what has gone wrong?

Daniel Levy is the chairman of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, and although Joe Louis’ ENIC group hold a majority stake in ownership, Levy also has shares meaning he essentially has the role of chairman and owner. He took over from entrepreneur Alan Sugar in 1991 and has since built a brand recognised around the world, a new stadium which is widely regarded as the best in Europe and facilities that seemingly every player would dream of training on. But things aren’t going as well as he and ENIC might have hoped. With only 1 trophy to their name – the Carling Cup (League Cup) – won in 2008, fans would have expected a better return and are now starting to point fingers.

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Lucas Moura scoring the winner for Spurs against Ajax in the UEFA Champions League semi-final.

Despite a 15-year drought in silverware, Spurs have still had some exciting times. The most recent being a spot in the UEFA Champions League final in 2019 against fellow English club, Liverpool. But with a hugely disappointing display and result, what followed was the sacking of one of the most popular managers among the fans in recent times, Mauricio Pochettino. Daniel Levy swiftly moved on with the appointment of serial winner, Jose Mourinho but without even completing his second season, he faced the same punishment as his predecessor. Next in the hotseat was a manager who had won titles at every club he’s been, similar to Jose Mourinho.  And after a very brief spell with Nuno Espirito Santo, Antonio Conte was the latest ex-Chelsea manager to join the Lilywhites but yet again, he was sacked before finishing his second season having not won a trophy. What Conte did do though, was take aim at the club in his last ever press conference in Spurs colours, speaking words that Tottenham fans found all too familiar and agreeing with majority of what he had to say. Now without a manager again, supporters are starting to feel that the blame should be shifted from the manager/players to those higher up.

I recently spoke to Spurs fan and host of the podcast, ‘The Fighting Cock’, Flav Bateman on what he felt was going wrong at the club and why his team are struggling so much.

“Daniel Levy’s the main problem.

“He’s made bad mistake after bad mistake. If Daniel Levy was an employee of Daniel Levy, would he have fired himself by now? And probably he would.”

He also spoke about how little pressure is on the Tottenham chairman on getting it right.

“There’s no consequence to Levy getting things wrong because he owns the football club”

Recently, Sky Sports cameras picked up banners and signs saying, ‘LEVY OUT’ and despite Flav claiming that Levy felt under no pressure when making mistakes, he insisted that these messages from the fans would still have a big impact on the Tottenham chairman.

“What the fans can do is make it difficult for him. And that’s what we saw with the banners against [Manchester] United.

“He’s noticing that. He wants that to go away. That isn’t a good look on TV when he’s trying to do business with brand deals”.

Steve Perry is also a Spurs fan and has been since 1965. He’s experienced “great memories and teams over the years”. But even he felt that the club are in need of a change.

“Unfortunately under ENIC, Spurs will never return to the glory days of winning trophies.

“Our only hope is we get a mega rich buyer with money to burn. It’s not the way it should be but the club with the largest wallet wins the most trophies”

He was of course making reference to Manchester City finding success after being bought by The Abu Dhabi United Group in 2008.

Despite making claims that mass amounts of money needed to be spent in order to get the club on the right track again, he also said how there was another big factor that Spurs had continuously gotten wrong.

“There is a lot of criticism of recruitment and this is another huge factor in our failure to achieve footballing success, we waste money recruiting badly.

“Players such as: Walker, Vertonghen, Dembele and Eriksen all left and were replaced by players of inferior quality”.

Tottenham have indeed spent “not insignificant sums of money” as described by Flav but as Steve mentioned, none of the players have made the impact that the manager and fans would have wanted, leading them to blame the man who was responsible of the transfers before getting suspended for ‘false accounting’, former Director of Football, Fabio Paratici. It was later found out that Daniel Levy appointed Paratici having already known that the Italian could face a two-and-a-half-year ban.

Steve Perry spoke about the importance of the Daniel Levy’s next step as Tottenham chairman as well as the consequences that his previous actions could have.

“Appointing a director of football already under suspicion together with a manager who has a reputation of staying at a club for two seasons with clearly no onward plan, the next appointment is crucial for Levy and the club.”

Whoever the next manager of this club will be is currently anyone’s guess. With fans throwing up names like Mauricio Pochettino & Julien Nagelsmann, no one is really sure what the direction of this club looks like. But one thing seems certain among the fanbase, Daniel Levy is not welcome to stay and find out.

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More and more propaganda against Spurs owners, Daniel Levy & ENIC are being spotted around the stadium.

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I can't do miracles!' - Antonio Conte defends failed Tottenham spell as his Napoli side open up seven-point gap at top of Serie A

WHAT HAPPENED? The Italian manager replaced Nuno Espirito Santo as Spurs boss in November 2021 at a time when the club had faced a series of defeats and were struggling at the ninth position in the Premier League table. Under the Italian coach, though, they slowly picked up form and ended the season in fourth position, thereby securing Champions League qualification. However, Conte’s honeymoon…

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Rekap Hasil Bola Selasa Dinihari 22 Oktober 2024: Nottingham Forest vs Crystal Palace 1-0, Verona vs Monza 0-3, Valencia vs Las Palmas 2-3

 Hasil bola pada Selasa dinihari, 22 Oktober 2024, menampilkan pertandingan Liga Inggris, Liga Italia, dan Liga Spanyol. Crystal Palace, Monza, dan Las Palmas menang. Kiper Crystal Palace Dean Henderson melakukan blunder untuk membantu bekas klubnya, Nottingham Forest, menang 1-0 pada pertandingan Liga Inggris di City Ground, Nottingham.

Kemenangan tersebut mendongkrak Forest untuk naik ke posisi kedelapan di klasemen sementara Liga Inggris dengan koleksi 13 poin. Sedangkan bagi Palace, kegagalan mendulang poin pada pertandingan kedelapan di liga musim ini memaksa mereka tertahan di posisi ke-18 dengan tiga poin.

Dua pemain Palace, Eddie Nketiah dan Eberechi Eze, memiliki peluang yang menghantam tiang gawang, tetapi mereka tetap menjadi tim dengan catatan gol terendah di liga yakni hanya mengoleksi lima gol dari delapan pertandingan pembukaannya.

Sebaliknya Forest justru tampil gemilang di awal musim, dan saat ini mampu mengungguli Manchester United dan Newcastle United di paruh atas klasemen sementara.

Nuno Espirito Santo harus menyaksikan kemenangan kandang pertama tim asuhannya sejak April dari tribun, sebab ia sedang memulai hukuman tiga pertandingan tidak boleh berada di bangku pemain cadangan. Sedangkan pemilik Forest, Evangelos Marinakis, memulai hukuman larangan berada di stadion selama lima laga akibat perilakunya saat timnya kalah 0-1 dri Fulham bulan lalu.

Henderson memainkan peran penting untuk menjaga Forest tidak terdegradasi saat ia membela tim itu pada musim 2022/2023, tetapi ia memiliki momen memalukan saat gagal menangkap bola sepakan Chris Wood pada menit ke-65.

Di sisi lain, kiper Forest Matz Sels tampil cemerlang dengan menepis sepakan Eze ke tiang gawang beberapa saat sebelum timnya memecah kebuntuan. Sels juga mampu menggagalkan sepakan Jeffrey Schlupp.

Nketiah melepaskan sepakan jarak jauh yang membentur tiang gawang pada babak pertama, untuk membuatnya masih gagal menyumbang gol bagi Palace sejak didatangkan dari Arsenal dengan nilai 30 juta pound.

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Nottingham Forest fined for social media criticism of a VAR official.

Nottingham Forest were fined 750,000 pounds ($980,000) on Friday and warned about their future behavior for criticizing VAR official Stuart Attwell on social media last season. Forest were enraged when they were denied three penalties during a 2-0 defeat at Everton in April, as they fought to keep their Premier League position. Nuno Espirito Santo’s team was in a tough relegation battle with…

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All the angry calls into talkSPORT about Ange this week: “He’s not good enough, it’s crap football,” on and on they went. Uh huh, carry on mates. 😂 People acting like he took over a team that was winning the league regularly and ruined them. Maybe they’d rather have Nuno back. Keep doing you Ange.

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Slot's first Setback

The honeymoon is over. 

After a perfect start to the Premier League campaign, Liverpool and Arne Slot came back to earth with a bump, as they lost at home to a limited but spirited Nottingham Forest. The Dutchman may have been denied the August Manager of the Month award by fellow newcomer Fabian Hürzeler at Brighton, but he wasn’t spared its fabled curse. 

It was a game and a performance that never  got going, as Liverpool looked sluggish and sloppy throughout. As they took greater risks in search of the breakthrough, Callum Hudson-Odoi delivered the classic sucker punch, with the only move and finish of true quality that the game produced.

With a daunting run of seven games in twenty-two days ahead, there was always a feeling that Liverpool's season started here, despite all of the early positivity. The dominant question on the lips of reporters and supporters has been rotation; How much, who and when?

Slot’s answer was as matter of fact as his every utterance since assuming the head coach position at Anfield; none as yet. Same team, same bench, with no spot as yet for new boy Federico Chiesa. 

The Dutchman's aim was to pretend the first intrusive international break of the season hadn’t happened, that his preferred starting XI were ready to put another team slowly but surely to the sword, as they had done with Ipswich, Brentford and Manchester United.

From very early on that illusion appeared flawed, as the rust developed from time away with other teammates and other managers was more prominent than the rhythm built up over the opening three wins each with a clean sheet. Forest came to frustrate, as Nuno Espirito Santo packed his side with five central midfielders at the expense of his sharpest attacking threats - wingers Callum Hudson-Odoi and Anthony Elanga. 

Like Ipswich, the Forest plan was to squeeze the contest into a compact impenetrable box. However unlike the opening day, Liverpool found it hard to exploit the space out wide that this tactic provides.

Their passing - and crucially their decision-making - was nowhere near as crisp. With the exception of the largely excellent Ryan Gravenberch, Liverpool players gave the ball away too easily, allowing Forest’s aggressive tackling to bear fruit. It was a day when Slot's apparent obsession with duels began to make sense, as the away side grew in confidence with every contest won, pushing the boundaries of referee Michael Oliver without straying over the lines.

Anfield grew more restless with every stray pass, clearly assuming that their as-yet unbeaten opponents shouldn’t be causing this much trouble. 

On the hour mark, came the changes. Whether this was pre-planned or a result of Forest’s obduracy is unclear, but it was the first time a Slot move raised real eyebrows since Jarrel Quansah’s half time hooking at Portman Road. 

Alexis Mac Allister, yet to produce his best in a red shirt immediately after wearing a blue and white one for Argentina, was replaced not by the expected Curtis Jones but by Conor Bradley, releasing Trent Alexander-Arnold into midfield. The removal of Diogo Jota & Luis Diaz for Cody Gakpo and Darwin Nunez was more predictable, with the Uruguayan in particular hopeful to impact the season for the first time against his favourite opponents.  

For all of the talk last season of the potential for Alexander-Arnold to become a number 6, it was Dominic Szoboszlai who retreated alongside Gravenberch, with the Scouser tasked with occupying the Forest defenders and supplying his forwards. It was a formation that naturally incurs more risk than we’ve seen from Slot so far, but as the second half ticked by without any sense of inevitability building towards Matt Sels' goal, it was a risk deemed as essential. 

The trouble with taking risks is that sometimes you have to deal with the consequences. Forest became more dangerous on the break with the second half introductions of Hudson-Odoi and Elanga. Nuno’s plan was to take the game as deep as he could, shorn of his preferred starting midfield duo of Danilo and Ibrahima Sangare through injury. The Portuguese asked debutant James Ward-Prowse and player of the month Elliott Anderson to commit to the dirty work of closing spaces and harrying Liverpool into mistakes, before the flair men came in to win the game.

On 72 minutes Hudson-Odoi did exactly that, cutting inside Bradley and curling a shot in off the far post. Alisson may have believed it was going wide as he didn’t dive, a decision that added to the sense of disbelief and anger that echoed around the ground. 

Slot’s response was to introduce even more risk, replacing Andy Robertson and Ibrahima Konate with Kostas Tsimikas and Jones, this time with  Gravenberch dropping deeper to operate alongside Van Dijk in defence. The pursuit of urgency produced uncertainty, as the absence of calm heads on the pitch and in the stands became telling. 

As their title race petered out last season, there was a feeling that Liverpool’s frantic feverish attack had become rushed - an element that Slot had appeared keen to eliminate. Embracing the chaos at this stage might have seemed like giving his players a familiar comfort - the footballing equivalent of a cheat meal - but all it did was increase the confusion. 

Liverpool were unable to generate shots on target, let alone any attacking momentum. The majority of attacks seemed to die at the feet of Mohammed Salah, bad timing after a fortnight in which his new contract was the dominant conversation. After causing shockwaves by announcing that this was his last Liverpool season at Old Trafford, this performance proved that the decision to give him whatever he wants isn’t as simple as it first appeared. 

The Egyptian wasn’t alone in underwhelming - Gakpo and Nunez were anonymous, and Alexander-Arnold’s foray into midfield was another failed experiment. In truth no one came out of this performance with much credit except for the ecstatic opponents, planting their flag on this ground for the first time since Neil Armstrong did the same on the moon.

Slot now gets to see how his team deals with adversity, and for all the talk of the challenges of the incoming rush of games, one suspects the head coach will be happy for the chance to get that stinker out of their system in three day's time.