Next Nottingham Forest manager: Oliver Glasner confirmed as Vitor Pereira replacement

Nottingham Forest person confirmed the managerial assignment of Oliver Glasner, claiming that six reasons "make him the perfect person" to win Vitor Pereira.

Despite guiding Forest to Premier League endurance and a Europa League semi-final crossed a 20-game period, Pereira was surprisingly sacked arsenic caput coach past week.

Owner Evangelos Marinakis had the enactment of exercising a interruption clause successful the declaration that the Portuguese had signed earlier successful the year.

Glasner had been assessing his options aft concluding his historical Crystal Palace reign with a Conference League trophy.

On Monday morning, Forest made the ceremonial announcement that the Austrian had completed a determination to the East Midlands outfit.

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Nottingham Forest outline wherefore they person appointed Oliver Glasner

In a lengthy nonfiction connected their authoritative website, Forest heap praise connected the 51-year-old for his "leadership, tactical expertise and winning mentality".

Forest besides speech up Glasner's estimation for "developing players, gathering ambitious attacking teams and delivering occurrence astatine the highest level of the game."

Glasner said: "I’m delighted to articulation Nottingham Forest arsenic caput coach. From my precise archetypal conversations with the proprietor and the enactment team, it was evident to maine that they person a wide imaginativeness for this shot nine and implicit spot and content successful maine and my unit to physique a beardown aboriginal unneurotic implicit the agelong term.

"That spot and shared commitment, unneurotic with the imaginable that I spot wrong the squad, were cardinal factors for maine and I americium excited astir what we tin execute together.

"Nottingham Forest is simply a nine with unthinkable prestige and history, a two-time European Champion with 1 of the astir passionate instrumentality bases successful football. Our purpose is to physique a squad that tin assistance instrumentality the nine to the adjacent level successful the years up and that our supporters tin beryllium arrogant of.

"My contiguous absorption is connected gathering the players and unit and getting to enactment arsenic we statesman pre-season. I’m excited for the aboriginal and volition enactment tirelessly to correspond this large nine with pridefulness and to bring occurrence connected the pitch. I can’t hold to get started."

When is Nottingham Forest's archetypal pre-season friendly?

Nottingham Forest bash not statesman their pre-season docket until July 18, erstwhile they look neighbours Notts County.

That is followed by a grooming campy successful Portugal, portion their pre-season docket does not reason until August 16, a week earlier the commencement of the caller Premier League campaign.