Nuno Espirito Santo’s “epic fallout” with Nottingham Forest Transfer Guru Edu is taking the lead in the Premier League sack race with a “deep and personal” rift between the pair.
Nuno revealed an increase in tension between him and his owner, Evangelos Marinakis on Friday.
“I’ve always had a very good relationship with the owner. Last season, we were very close and talked every day,” he explained.
“We’re not going very well this season (between us), but my concern is the season ahead of us, so I believe dialogue is always important because my concern is the season before us. Our relationship remains the same.
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That comment follows rumors of Nuno looting on Friday. In response to these reports, the Portuguese boss said:
But now, the rifts of the forest are not between Nuno and Marinakis, not between Nuno and Edu, and the forest owners are now facing a very realistic prospect that they have to choose between them, and their relationship with the duo is “potentially irreparable.”
There’s a “magnificent fallout behind the scenes,” and Nuno is said to have “revealed Edu to both the people at the club and others.”
This issue has been “bubbly for the past two months” to “put Marinakis in a difficult position.”
Nuno aired dirty laundry last week ahead of his first match against Brentford.
He states: “We are very, very far from where we should be, we are very, very far from where we should be, from a planning perspective, from a team perspective, and from a team perspective.
“So we are all very concerned that in a few days we will be playing in the world’s toughest competition, the Premier League, and we are very far away.
“The plan we didn’t go through. Preparation from a squad perspective was not ideal. We didn’t have the opportunity to create bonds, which is what I think is more important.
“Because we don’t know what team we have. We know that the players working here are being loaned out. There’s a big problem.”
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Nuno didn’t name Edu, but “everyone at the top level of the Marina Kisdown club knew who it was directed at.
“It was no coincidence that Forest suddenly strengthened his transfer activities on Thursday and Friday,” said Omali Hutchinson, Arnaud Karimend and James McAtee all joined in permanent deals, while Douglas Lewis arrived with obligation to lend and buy from Juventus.
These deals changed the narrative, but a report added, “The lift still existed.”
“It’s not an exaggeration to say that Mori was unsettled by the fact that he not only said that he looked visibly angry, and that he was unstoppable at his timing to make it public for an interview intended to go out 24 hours before the first game of the season.”
There is speculation that the increased involvement in the relocation of Edu’s “close alliance” kia joorabchian may be one of the causes of Nuno’s complaints, and manager agent Jorge Mendes declared that he was Forest’s transfer mediator last summer.
However, the report adds that Mendes hasn’t played a significant role in the latest drama, and that it’s far more that Nuno sees his relationship with Edu as broken.
