For Oliver Glasner and Nottingham Forest, the future starts now. His post-match press conference lasted 14 frustrated minutes in which, repeatedly banging the desk, he blamed himself for compromising his principles and told players that if they didn’t “buy in” they could “leave”. If I want, I could start in two weeks somewhere else.
But the players, the staff, they remain in the same situation. And it’s the same shit situation than the club had last year. So you need to change and rebuild from the bottom to the top.
And this is clear for me. And this is what I will do. And without any compromises, zero, zero.” Forest, once again, didn’t play too badly.
No side has underperformed their xG as significantly as Forest, who went into the weekend third in Opta’s expected table but third-bottom in real life. Here, they had two-and-a-half times as many chances as Brentford. They could claim a degree of misfortune in that both goals went in off the luckless Nikola Milenkovic, the first an own goal after Murillo had misjudged a long clearance to Dango Ouattara, the second credited to Igor Thiago as he latched on to Jaydon Anthony’s clever low cross.
But Glasner was accepting no excuses. And we have to accept it’s not good enough. If you lose four of the last five games, it’s not good enough.
And that’s why it’s for me, it’s now time that we change things, that I change things, and that’s what I will do.” One player, he revealed, had asked to travel home alone. For example, I have no understanding if somebody wants to go home on his own today from London to Nottingham. No, go with the bus like everybody else.
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