Next Permanent Nottingham Forest Manager Odds

Nottingham Forest are on the lookout for a new manager following the sacking of Chris Hughton after losing six of their first seven league matches, rooting them to the bottom of the table. The former Brighton and Norwich City coach took over at the start of last season as a replacement for Sabri Lamouchi who was also axed after losing his first four matches of the season.

Hughton had taken charge of 53 matches at the City Ground, winning just 14 of them, leaving the former Newcastle United manager with a win percentage of 26.4% in his time a Forest. The two-time European Cup winners will need to make a good and accurate decision as to who should their next manager with the season still being young as there are still 39 league fixtures to play.

Former Swansea City manager Steve Cooper is the favourite to get the job at the City Ground.

The 41-year-old has shown an impressive skill set ever since he first arrived into management at the Liberty Stadium at the start of the 2019/20 season, following Graham Potter’s departure to Brighton & Hove Albion. In both of Cooper’s two seasons at Swansea, he managed to get them into the playoffs, despite having a more limited budget than many of the sides around them.

Last season, Swansea finished as runners-up in the playoff final to Brentford and following a summer of frustration transfer activity-wise, Cooper departed the Swans and will certainly be of interest to any Championship clubs with managerial vacancies having seen the former England and Liverpool youth coach do so well in his first senior role as manager.

Cooper is priced at 8/11 to become Forest’s next manager - click on the link to claim this bet in your bet slip!

Chris Wilder comes in next on this list of those linked to the vacancy at Selhurst Park.

The 53-year-old hasn’t had a job since he left Sheffield United back in March, departing with the club on 14 points after 28 games.

Wilder is a manager that has worked his way up the divisions, having started at the likes of Halifax Town, before moving to Oxford United, where he lead them to promotion via Conference Premier play-offs in 2010, before moving to Sixfields to Northampton Town where he won the League Two title with 99 points in 2015/16.

The former Oxford man was a huge fan favourite at Bramall Lane, having led the club from a mid-table position in League One, to the Premier League via two automatic promotions in 2016/17 and 2018/19, before finishing ninth in the top flight last campaign, the Blades best league finish since the 1991/92 season.

Wilder has the odds of 3/1 to become the next permanent manager at the City Ground.

Former Preston North End manager Alex Neil is next on this list of managers linked with a move to the Robins.

Neil managed to do a decent job at Deepdale on a limited budget, which saw the Lancashire side push for unlikely play-off place finishes in two of his three full seasons in charge.

The 39-year-old Glasgow born manager has had a promising start to life in management since becoming Hamilton Academical manager back in 2013, having led the SPFL side to the playoffs in 2014, as well as managing to get Norwich City promoted to the Premier League in 2015.

This move would offer Neil a fresh start in management having not had a job since he was harshly sacked by Preston back in March and he would also arguably have a higher-quality squad at his disposal which if he was to get off to a good start, could see Forest fly up the table.

Neil is priced at 10/1 to be Nottingham Forest’s next permanent manager.

John Terry is also on this list of managers that have been linked with the job at the City Ground.

The 40-year-old played six league games for Forest on a loan spell from Chelsea in 2000 and recently left Aston Villa as assistant manager following three years at Villa Park where he plied his trade as a coach after his retirement from playing in 2018.

In his time as assistant manager of Villa, Terry worked closely to manager Dean Smith and experienced coaches such as Craig Shakespeare, previously manager of Leicester City in a spell that would’ve been very beneficial to any future managerial experience the former Chelsea captain pursues.

If the former Chelsea and England captain shows the same leadership skills and applies the knowledge which he would’ve gained on the coaching staff at Villa, then there is no doubt that he should be a successful manager.

Terry is priced at 3/1 to take over the reins at Forest.

The final manager on this list is Carlos Carvahal who is managing hometown club Sporting Braga at present, having earned qualification for this season’s Europa League via a fourth-place finish.

Carvahal is well known in England for his spells as manager of Sheffield Wednesday and Swansea City between 2015 and 2018. The Portuguese manager managed to reach the playoffs in his first two seasons with the Owls, but, was beaten in the final and semi-finals by Hull City and Huddersfield Town before being dismissed by mutual consent on 24th December following a poor start to the 2017/18 season.

At Swansea, Carvahal showed his capabilities as a Premier League manager, with a 32%-win percentage over the course of 25 matches in charge, winning eight and drawing eight, as the Swans who had struggled badly prior to the Portuguese manager’s arrival ran out of steam and were relegated.

In the 55-year-old’s first season back in Portugal in 2019/20, Carvahal lead Rio Ave to a fifth-place finish, with a best-ever points tally for the club with 55, subsequently qualifying them for the Europa League, before departing to join Braga.

Carvahal is priced at 25/1 to become Forest’s next permanent manager.