Ange Postecoglou is below no illusions. He is aware of he has been introduced into Nottingham Forest to win matches and trophies.
The assured and bullish head coach even joked about doubtlessly having to win silverware in his first yr, regardless of his self-made trope whereas in command of Tottenham Hotspur about “always winning a trophy in the second season”.
It was, as one of the best comedy is, a quip primarily based on fact.
Each time Postecoglou talked in regards to the membership’s proprietor Evangelos Marinakis throughout his first press convention on the Metropolis Floor he talked about the identical phrase: “ambitious”.
The insistence on having the ability to “compete with the best and challenge for trophies” have been the phrases the proprietor used to elucidate why he has chosen Postecoglou as his new individual in cost.
It’s a problem the affable Aussie is clearly up for.
He has gained trophies in all places he has gone, one thing he insists he isn’t given sufficient credit score for, as lots of his years in administration have been spent competing on totally different continents.
The will to win and love of the sport has motivated Postecoglou from being a football-obsessed child in Melbourne to reaching Europa League glory on a particular evening with Spurs in Bilbao.
Now he has the additional drive of proving doubters unsuitable after so many criticised his fashion and skills at Spurs.
It was the primary time Postecoglou had been sacked throughout his lengthy teaching profession. He intends it to be the final.
The Nottingham Forest gamers that took half in his first coaching session on Wednesday have been fast to confess they loved the depth, calls for and element coming from their new boss.
Some on the crimson facet of Nottingham are apprehensive about how Forest will adapt from a counter-attacking staff to 1 that, in Postecoglou’s phrases, “plays exciting football”.
The Athens-born supervisor says he has performed “every formation possible” throughout his two-decades-long teaching profession. His first three days have seen him put in longer hours than anticipated on the membership’s coaching floor to prepare dinner up schemes for his new gamers.
Postecoglou was all smiles throughout his first coaching session with the squad on Wednesday
It’s a squad brimming with attacking expertise. Round £165m was invested within the entrance line alone this summer season, to not point out the already in-house expertise of Callum Hudson-Odoi, Morgan Gibbs-White and Chris Wooden.
If attacking soccer is coming to the Metropolis Floor, he has plenty of gamers to channel his needs on the pitch.
It’s clear having one other shot within the Premier League and Europe has obtained Postecoglou smiling once more.
As has the top of 5 weeks of “family time and the school run”. Even when the decision from his new membership got here on the expense of his “hangover-style” sixtieth party, which noticed him take calls from his new boss as an alternative of celebrating with buddies.
Postecoglou won’t care if his staff is lifting a trophy by the top of the season. He can begin planning The Hangover: Half 2 if he brings silverware to Trentside.
