Nottingham Forest have appointed Nuno Espirito Santo on a two-and-a-half-year contract to exchange Steve Cooper.
Cooper was sacked on Tuesday after two years, with Forest having misplaced 5 of their previous six league video games and sitting seventeenth within the desk.
Former Wolves and Tottenham manager Nuno was sacked by Saudi Pro-League membership Al-Ittihad in November.
The 49-year-old’s first match in cost shall be Saturday’s dwelling Premier League sport in opposition to Bournemouth.
Nuno spent 4 years at Wolves, guiding the membership to promotion from the Championship in his first season earlier than consecutive seventh-placed finishes within the Premier League, whereas in addition they reached the Europa League quarter-finals.
The former goalkeeper left Molineux in the summertime of 2021 to hitch Spurs, however was sacked after lower than 4 months in cost after a run of 5 defeats in seven video games.
He joined Al-Ittihad in July 2022 and led the Jeddah-based facet to the Saudi title final season, however was dismissed 12 video games into the brand new marketing campaign after a run of poor outcomes.
Forest have gained as soon as of their previous 13 top-flight video games, taking eight factors in that interval.
They have picked up one level from their previous six matches and are 5 factors forward of third-from-bottom Luton, who’ve a match in hand.
Analysis
BBC Sport’s Simon Stone
The tough bit for Nuno shall be to navigate the power of help for Cooper and mildew it into one thing resembling what he had at Wolves.
In a lot the identical means as Cooper did on the City Ground, Nuno created a particular bond with the supporters at Molineux, who revelled in the way in which by which the Portuguese additionally took their membership from Championship mediocrity into the Premier League after which into Europe.
That run was based mostly round a particular recruitment plan that allied Nuno with a largely Portuguese squad that had the heavy hand of soccer agent Jorge Mendes over it. He additionally used a trusted three-man defence with wing backs, and relied primarily on a counter-attacking model.
Given how a lot Forest proprietor Evangelos Marinakis has invested in gamers over the previous three switch home windows, it is going to be fascinating to see what reshaping Nuno is allowed to execute subsequent month.
At least he has time to work along with his squad although.
After the house sport with Manchester United on 30 December, Forest have a single Premier League sport – at Brentford – earlier than the encounter with Arsenal on the City Ground on 30 January.
