Portuguese coach Vítor Pereira will sign a contract valid for a season and a half with English side Nottingham Forest, returning to training three months after being fired from Wolverhampton. The agreement will be announced in the next few hours, in time to be able to guide the team in next Thursday’s game against Turkish side Fenerbahçe, counting for the Europa League play-offs.
Vítor Pereira is Nottingham Forest’s fourth coach of the season, succeeding compatriot Nuno Espírito Santo, who started the season, Australian Ange Postecoglou and Englishman Sean Dyche, fired after the draw at home against Wolverhampton, the third consecutive game without a win.
Nottingham Forest are only the second club to sack three managers in the same Premier League season, after Watford also did so in 2019/20.
Vítor Pereira, who was two-time champion at FC Porto, champion in China and Greece, also coached Santa Clara, Al-Ahli, Olympiacos, Fenerbahçe, Munich 1860, Shanghai SIPG, Corinthians, Flamengo, and Al-Shabab, among others.
At Nottingham Forest, Vítor Pereira will meet the Greek Evangelos Marinakis, majority shareholder of the English club and who is also president of Olympiacos, where the Portuguese coach was in 2014/15.
The Portuguese coach will be the 10th to manage Forest since Marinakis acquired the club in 2017.
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