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Nick Mashiter
Football reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesNottingham Forest have not kept a clean sheet for 20 games, a run stretching back to April and a 1-0 win over Manchester United.
They scored just once under Ange Postecoglou in five Premier League games, conceding 10 goals, and are two points from safety.
A realistic ambition at the start of the season was to win the Europa League and challenge for Europe again, but owner Evangelos Marinakis accepts Forest need to stabilise first.
"He's well aware of the challenges," said new boss Sean Dyche in Wednesday's news conference before the Europa League game against Porto. "He spoke very openly about the challenge. I don't think he thinks it's a gimme just because of last season.
"He's been around football a long time with Olympiacos and then here. So stability is the first move - but that's not acceptable for the whole run of being Nottingham Forest manager.
"I don't want that. I don't want to sit here and go: 'Well, that's OK then.'
"I always say to players don't accept 'alrightness'. It doesn't get you anything. Let's push for more.
"As a football manager, a football coach and football players, you should be wanting more - but the first thing is: can we just stabilise the situation?
"It still needs the basics put back into the team from my point of view, because they have lost sight of that a little bit."
Image source, Getty ImagesNottingham Forest's Ryan Yates says new manager Sean Dyche and his coaching staff have bought with them a "a new sense of life and energy" after a "tough" period at the club.
Dyche will take charge of his first game on Thursday as Portugal's Primeira League leaders Porto visit the City Ground in the Europa League
On Tuesday, ex-Burnley and Everton manager Dyche replaced Ange Postecoglou, who was sacked just 39 days and eight games into his tenure.
"It's been tough," Yates said alongside Dyche in a pre-match news conference. "At the end of the day, it's our responsibility as players more than anyone. You can't pinpoint an individual - we haven't been good enough as a club.
"We have a new opportunity now and we're really excited to hopefully get off to a good start.
"I feel like a massive strength of this football club is getting that connection between the fans, the players and the management.
"Let's be honest, there hasn't been a good feeling around here in the last few weeks. It's not been as lively at the City Ground but the new manager and his coaching staff have bought a new sense of life and energy."
Defeat at home by FC Midtjylland in their most recent Europa League game - and the supporter backlash that came with it - was one of the most damning results in Postecoglou's short reign, but Yates believes the visit of Porto provides a perfect chance to bounce back.
"We have to see this as an opportunity to go and grab it," he said. "Porto are on a great run and it's going to be a difficult game, but we can't let games slip us by.
"Absolutely [it is a fresh start]. I said after the game the other day, we were getting clapped off after a 3-0 home defeat.
"A few of the lads said: 'We owe it to the fans.' Whatever decision the club makes we owe it to the fans because they deserve more."
Nat Hayward
BBC Sport journalist
New Nottingham Forest boss Sean Dyche has been speaking to the media before the Europa League game against Porto at the City Ground on Thursday (20:00 BST).
Here are the key lines from his news conference:
Dyche confirmed striker Chris Wood has a "knock", has been "off the grass", and is "touch and go" because his injury needs "settling down".
On the challenge posed by the Primeira Liga leaders: "Porto have had a great start, are unbeaten so far in Europe and the league. It has been difficult to cram a lot of work into the players but they have been receptive and open-minded so far."
Asked about his work with the squad since his arrival on Tuesday, Dyche said: "They've had a lot on. Whatever people think of players, they still feel it. So we've just trying to break it a bit, make them realise we're all human, that we're in it together and to get a good atmosphere. There was a lot of serious work done, a tactical overview. But we are cramming it because we've got two days."
On owner Evangelos Marinakis being open about the challenges Forest face: "He is aware of it. He keeps up with the stats and facts. He is aware it was a challenging run at the end of last season. That's why they tried to add to it to try to keep moving forward. It was a good conversation. I wouldn't certainly be here if it had been a bad conversation."
Dyche added that Marinakis wants to "stabilise" Forest: "There's been huge changes at this club. You can question the owner currently, which a few have. But at the end of the day, there's been a lot of good - a good feeling and good things around the area and the city. There's a bigger picture to it."
On his style of play: "The players are aware of it. I took a lot of feedback from the players and not just me. They are very proud of what they did last season. Now can we mould it slightly differently but keep that winning mentality? Long ball, short ball? You have just got to play effective football. That will never go out of fashion."
Dyche said managing Forest is "bigger" than anything he has done previously: "To take a small club like Burnley and get to Europe was incredible. But it's all past me now. The staff, the team, the ownership - they are all in an awkward place for the first time in a number of seasons. It's our job to find a way back from that."
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Image source, Getty ImagesThe decision to sack Ange Postecoglou after 39 days in charge was "ludicrous", but former Nottingham Forest manager Mark Warburton believes new boss Sean Dyche is a "safe pair of hands".
Owner Evangelos Marinakis has already dismissed two head coaches this season, with Nuno Espirito Santo's exit followed closely by Postecoglou's, and he has now turned to the experienced Dyche to try to bring some much-needed stability.
The Greek businessman has a track record for hiring and firing managers, with Dyche the ninth permanent manager at the City Ground since Marinakis' takeover of the club in 2017.
Warburton has had first-hand experience of the owner's ruthless decision-making, having been his first dismissal in 2017 after just nine months in charge.
"For me, the owner set a series of key performance indicators, you hit all the KPIs, but if the owner is not happy about something then you are gone. It was as simple as that," Warburton told BBC Radio 5 Live.
"I remember sitting on New Year's Eve, preparing for a game and get knock on the door, and you are gone. That is how he acts. He is ruthless in that sense. It is his club and he supports it, he writes the cheques and I get that.
"He sees Sean as a safe pair of hands. He thinks he made a mistake with Ange.
"It is ludicrous. How can anyone impose a playing style, philosophy, belief on players - let alone the club itself - in 39 days?
"The decision itself is completely wrong. But having made that now, what do you do? Ange was brave and a different style to Nuno. Sean is far more alongside the lines of Nuno.
"From afar, I think it a case of getting someone more like Nuno to try to rectify what they see as a wrong. There is no doubt that Ange was treated appallingly.
"I don't agree with the sacking of Ange, but I understand why they have brought Sean in because he ticks a lot of boxes for what they need."
Image source, Getty ImagesFormer Nottingham Forest forward Paul McGregor says Sean Dyche is "tailor-made" for the City Ground dugout.
Dyche, a former Forest academy player, has also managed Everton and Burnley in the Premier League.
McGregor told BBC Radio Nottingham: "I don't think it's any secret that most Forest fans feel that Ange [Postecoglou] just didn't have the squad to do what he wanted to do. It was Nuno's [Espirito Santo] squad.
"A quick change was what was called for, and I think we have the right man for the job.
"This is what the city needs and what the club needs - but, more importantly, what the lads on the pitch need."
Nick Mashiter
Football reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesSean Dyche is the "right man at the right time" for Nottingham Forest, according to former England goalkeeper Paul Robinson.
Ex-Everton manager Dyche has been appointed as Forest's third manager this season after replacing Ange Postecoglou.
He takes over after Postecoglou lasted just 39 days in the job, himself having replaced Nuno Espirito Santo on 9 September.
Forest are 18th in the Premier League and winless since the opening day of the season, with Dyche facing the media on Wednesday before Thursday's Europa League visit of Porto.
"It's probably the right man at the right time. For both, it's the right fit for him and I think for Forest," said Robinson, who played at Burnley for Dyche before retiring in 2017.
"He has an excellent ability to be the boss but also have the dressing room on side, to be one of the lads but also have that respect and the time where you know he's the boss.
"His ability to integrate himself in the dressing room but, at the same time, keep his distance is great."
After facing Porto, Forest travel to Bournemouth in the Premier League on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Wayne Hennessey has left his coaching position with the club. The goalkeeper retired at the end of last season with Forest creating a role for him under Nuno Espirito Santo to work with goalkeeping coach Rui Barbosa.
But Hennessey, whose 109 caps for Wales is the most for a goalkeeper, departed while working under Ange Postecoglou, although it is believed to have been his decision to leave the City Ground.
Tom McCoy
BBC Sport journalist
Image source, Getty ImagesSean Dyche will have to hit the ground running at Nottingham Forest and stop the rot after Ange Postecoglou's ill-fated tenure.
Here are four urgent issues the new head coach needs to fix.
Establish a clear playing style
Forest thrived last season by defending deep and breaking rapidly on the counter-attack, but their summer recruitment and subsequent appointment of Postecoglou, demonstrated the club hierarchy wanted a more possession-focused style.
That clearly has not paid off and hiring Dyche is an admission they need to go back to basics.
Decide on his best line-up
Forest used fewer players in the top flight than any other side last season, before spending £193m on 13 new players in the transfer window. It has left them with a bloated squad.
Omari Hutchinson, Arnaud Kalimuendo and James McAtee - signed for a combined £85m - were left out of the matchday squad for Postecoglou's final match against Chelsea.
Historically, Dyche has been reluctant to rotate, averaging just 1.2 line-up changes per top-flight game at Burnley and 1.6 at Everton.
In fact, since making his managerial debut in the Premier League he has named an unchanged side 89 times, comfortably more than anyone else.
If it comes down to a choice between prioritising results and sharing out minutes to keep players happy, he is unlikely to let sentiment affect his selection.
Organise the defence
Forest were a tough nut to crack in 2024-25, but have yet to keep a clean sheet this term and conceded 11 times from set-pieces in their eight games under Postecoglou.
Given the aerial ability of centre-backs Nikola Milenkovic and Murillo, Dyche will surely be confident of improving that dismal record.
Get Chris Wood scoring
The New Zealander netted 20 Premier League goals last season - a total bettered by only three players - but has just two in so far this time around, with both coming on the opening weekend.
While he turns 34 in December, Wood enjoyed plenty of success playing under Dyche at Burnley so could prove a key figure.
