Forest set for fourth managerial change of 2025-26 after sacking Dyche

Nottingham Forest are on the lookout for yet another boss this season after Sean Dyche was sacked in the wake of their draw with Wolves.

It marked the most shots a team had managed without scoring a goal by a team in a Premier League game since Manchester United vs Burnley in October 2016 (38).

Forest had 62.9% possession – it was the 10th time in the Premier League that a side managed by Dyche had at least 60% of the ball, and the former Burnley and Everton manager has not won any of those games.

Around three hours after full-time, Forest confirmed Dyche had been dismissed. Early reports on Thursday are linking them with a move for ex-Wolves boss Vitor Pereira.

"The owner has been fair to me, without a shadow of a doubt," Dyche had told reporters after the Wolves game, when asked if he feared Evangelos Marinakis would sack him.

"People can demand change, and then it's always whether they change or not. I just work very hard. I care about this club. I've made that clear. I'm working very hard.

"If the owner wants to make a change, then that's up to him, and that's the way football is now, that's just the reality of it.

"But I'm not questioning the owner here. He's been absolutely fair with me from the beginning to the end, and I've been fair with him and told him the truth every step of the way.

"Owners are owners. They don't warm you up, it just comes, if that's the way it goes. I'm a realist. I understand the noise here has changed significantly since the last few games.

"And that's the only thing I'm frustrated about as it's not a terrible run. But that's still the modern way football is.

"So if people will change it, and the owner wants to change, that is entirely up to him, but there's no lack of respect for me to the owner on how he's been.

"He's been first class for me since I've been here. And if he wants to make change, that is entirely up to him and if the fans want to change, that's entirely up to them. All I do is work very, very hard at a club that I care about."

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