Evangelos Marinakis is a soccer wrecking ball and FA should ban supervisor merry-go-round
FA need to introduce new rules which stop clubs like Nottingham Forest from going through more managers in a season than hot dinners
Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis(Image: Getty Images)
Karma can be a cruel and brutal thing – and right now, it is kicking Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis up the backside.
Ruthless Greek businessman Marinakis has made a habit of waiting outside the dressing room to shake the hands of his players following matches. While leaving baffled and bemused supporters wanting to shake the living Greek tragedy by the neck.
Marinakis has done it again. He’s sacked another manager. And is now looking to appoint what will be Forest’s fourth different boss in less than five months. Which, when it happens, will be a new Premier League record.
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Forget smashing plates, which the Greek like to do, because Marinakis is redefining the definition of madness.
Who is he going to appoint next, Robin Hood and his band of merry men as his backroom staff? Vitor Pereira appears to be the next poor soul who is about to accept the most poisoned chalice in world football.
He’s the bloke who lasted less than 12 months at rock-bottom Wolves, before getting sacked himself. Nine managers have worked under Marinakis at Forest – and Sean Dyche had the best win percentage of them all. His reward was his P45.
But the real mistake Marinakis made came back in September, when he sacked Nuno Espírito Santo after just three games of the season, despite the fact he had got the club into Europe a few months earlier. That’s the Karma mentioned earlier. He was replaced by Ange Postecoglou, who was sacked after 39 days.
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Make it make sense? But while Marinakis might be in a league of his own when it comes to taking crisis management to unprecedented levels of lunacy, there is a wider picture emerging in the game which is as alarming as it is comical and embarrassing.
2026 is less than 45 days old and the managers of Chelsea, Manchester United, Real Madrid, Tottenham and now Forest have all been sacked.
Two have gone from the Premier League is less than 48 hours. Call me stupid, but perhaps the issue here is not those getting axed, but lies with those owners firing the bullets?
Those who hire and fire are immune from consequences, which shouldn’t be the case.
And in continuing to turn football into the Wild West, these people are sticking two big fat fingers up to the so-called ‘fit and proper person’ tests put in place to supposedly make sure those who want to own football clubs meet the required standards of common sense, intelligence and integrity.
Here in England, perhaps the FA should introduce new rules which state a club cannot make more than one managerial change during a single season.
Marinakis has become a dark presence at Forest. But he is not alone when it comes to those who run clubs in the narcissistic belief they are the solution, not the problem.
