Sean Dyche is vying with former Manchester Metropolis supervisor Roberto Mancini to interchange Ange Postecoglou at Nottingham Forest, sources have instructed ESPN, with Mancini being thought-about by Forest proprietor Evangelos Marinakis as an alternative choice to the previous Burnley and Everton supervisor.
Forest are trying to find their third supervisor of the season after the membership introduced Postecoglou’s sacking simply 19 minutes after the workforce’s 3-0 residence defeat in opposition to Chelsea on Saturday.
The previous Tottenham, Celtic and Australia coach had been in his submit for simply 39 days, taking cost of eight video games with out a win, since changing Nuno Espírito Santo final month.
However with Forest dismissing Postecoglou after his transient spell on the membership, sources have mentioned that Dyche is the favoured candidate to take over and that discussions have happen with the 54-year-old, whose connections to the membership date again to his time as a youth workforce participant within the Eighties.
Dyche, who was fired by Everton final season, shouldn’t be a certainty to take cost, nonetheless, with Marinakis eager to evaluate Mancini’s qualities for the job.
Mancini, 60, has not labored in English soccer since being fired by Metropolis in Might 2013 — 12 months after guiding the membership to its first league title in 44 years — after falling out with plenty of senior gamers on the Etihad.
Mancini has since coached Galatasaray, Inter Milan and Zenit St Petersburg, however has not been concerned within the membership recreation since 2018, when he began a five-year stint as Italy coach, throughout which he led the Azzurri to the Euro 2020 title.
He has been out of labor since leaving his submit as Saudi Arabia coach in October 2024.
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