Ange jokes he may have to win trophy in his first year

Ange Postecoglou ever wins a trophy successful his 2nd year astatine a nine — but such is the unit of his caller occupation astatine Nottingham Forest that adjacent the Australian brag laughs that this clip helium whitethorn person to win 1 successful his first.

Postecoglou proved successful large signifier and successful the champion of humour arsenic helium was introduced arsenic Forest’s caller brag astatine the club’s City Ground connected Friday, declaring helium hoped to bring backmost “some special times” for the two-time European champions.

And when the questions turned, inevitably, to his large assertion to fame of being a second-season winner, Postecoglou was speedy to punctual his questioner: “I person won a mates successful my archetypal arsenic well. At Celtic, I won a treble successful my archetypal year.”

Subsequently probed implicit whether helium could win 1 successful his archetypal year astatine Forest, Postecoglou responded: “Yeah, of people I can, yeah, yeah”.

Then helium added with a smile and to overmuch laughter: “I mean, I whitethorn person to, to person a 2nd year here, mate…”

Evangelos Marinakis, the club’s proprietor who got free of Nuno Espirito Santo this week adjacent aft he’d taken Forest into Europe for the archetypal clip successful three decades, is ruthless, and Postecoglou’s wry reflection suggested helium needs nary reminding.

“I haven’t spent a batch of clip with him, but from afar, you’ve conscionable got to respect his ambition and his willingness to take everything connected and make something special,” Postecoglou said of his Greek boss, saying helium really didn’t truly cognize what Marinakis was like.

When told of Marinakis’s quotes astir wanting to summation silverware astatine the club, Postecoglou said: “That could person been my quote, mate. We’re nary different. That’s what I want to do. I want to win trophies.

“That’s what’s what I’ve done my whole career, and that’s what I want to try and bash here.

“Since the president took implicit the club, those ambitions are backed up with actions. Perfect conditions for me.”

Postecoglou said his determination had been sorted lone implicit the weekend, and that helium and his erstwhile coaching staff astatine Spurs, who are joining him successful Nottingham, “had to marque some speedy decisions”.

“The President (Marinakis) got maine successful a bully moment. I’d conscionable done the schoolhouse tally — and that’s a large motivator to get backmost to work, mate,” helium said.

Reflecting connected his assignment and his sacking from Spurs aft he’d taken them to the Europa League trophy, helium added: “Sometimes you don’t cognize when these things will end. I surely didn’t expect to decorativeness up aft winning a trophy. So that’s conscionable the quality of football.

“It had ne'er happened to maine before. I mean, it was the archetypal clip I’ve been sacked, the archetypal clip I’ve had an off-season, oregon 5 weeks with the family, which has ne'er happened earlier — and just to say, it was arsenic tough for them arsenic it was for me.

“If you asked maine astatine the start of the year would Nottingham Forest beryllium a possibility, I would person said to you, ‘no way’, due to the fact that of the occupation that Nuno had done and the trajectory the nine was on, but it presented itself, and I was blessed to take it.”

“And the 1 happening that the fans will cognize with maine is that when I’ve acceptable my caput to bash something. I’ll spot it through, and, hopefully I tin bring some special times to the shot club.”

But asked if helium could beryllium the club’s caller Brian Clough, the manager successful Forest’s European glory years, Postecoglou smiled: “There will ne'er beryllium immoderate examination betwixt maine and Brian Clough. He’s a stand-alone legend.

“But if I tin bring akin joyousness that helium brought to this shot nine and to this city, I’ll beryllium a very, very blessed man.”

Source: AAP