‘Back to their rightful place’: Ange’s Forest pledge

Ange Postecoglou has declared he’s determined to take two-time European Cup winners Nottingham Forest backmost to their “rightful place” successful English football, reminding his caller club’s fans: “I emotion winning things – that’s what I’ve done.”

Four months connected since leaving Tottenham arsenic Europa League champions, Postecoglou has made it wide helium wants to assistance transport the English Midlands outfit backmost to the days when they ruled the continental crippled under Brian Clough.

“I get a consciousness the nine wants much and that’s surely what I want, so it’s a truly breathtaking time,” said the 60-year-old, who, it was besides confirmed connected Wednesday, has brought his backroom coaching staff from Spurs with him to the City Ground.

“I’m honoured and I’m humbled, but much importantly I’m determined to marque sure this shot nine takes its rightful place,” said Postecoglou, successful his archetypal interrogation with the club’s in-house TV.

“It’s a fantastic shot nine with large past and, adjacent successful caller times, it has done truly well. You carnivore that responsibility, but I’m excited and I’m looking guardant to it. Really blessed to beryllium here.”

Postecoglou has often talked of however helium would watch European Cup finals – agelong earlier the Champions League epoch – with his dada successful Australia when helium was a kid. Those were the days when the late, large ‘Cloughy’ worked miracles with an unsung outfit, taking them to European triumphs successful 1979 and 1980.

He present has the uncommon accidental to win the Europa League trophy successful consecutive seasons with two antithetic Premier League clubs.

“It was an breathtaking contention for maine past year when I was astatine Spurs, and we ended up having a historical nighttime successful Bilbao,” said Postecoglou.

“And this shot nine hasn’t been successful Europe for a very agelong time, but it’s got a mates of stars connected its thorax that amusement it’s got affluent history, and I’m sure the fans will beryllium looking guardant to it arsenic well.”

The pressure’s connected Postecoglou, though, arsenic his predecessor Nuno Espirito Santo is still overmuch loved aft getting them backmost into Europe aft three decades earlier his fall-out and eventual sacking this week by Greek proprietor Evangelos Marinakis.

The Australian’s broadside are expected to play a wholly different, attacking marque to the much safety-first attack of the Portuguese’s side, but Postecoglou smiled: “I’ve got to beryllium cautious what I say, due to the fact that everyone’s benignant of pigeon-holed maine beauteous overmuch done my whole career.

“I emotion winning. I emotion winning things. It’s what I’ve done. I similar the fans to beryllium excited astir watching the team play. There’s already an existing mentality within the radical present of working hard for 1 another, and I want to get into that.

“It’s astir present implementing my ain ideas. I emotion my teams to attack. I emotion my teams to people goals. That’s sometimes misconstrued arsenic maine conscionable playing 1 way. But the crushed I want my team to play that way is due to the fact that I emotion winning things — and that’s what I want to bash here.”

Forest besides confirmed Postecoglou will beryllium reunited with his Spurs coaching team of assistants Mile Jedinak, Nick Montgomery and Sergio Raimundo, and goalkeeping manager Rob Burch.

It will mean the aforesaid Australian flavour to his Spurs authorities being transported 210km northbound arsenic helium reunites with his trusty right-hand man, 41-year-old adjunct Jedinak, who was his prime for skipper arsenic agelong agone arsenic 2014 when helium managed the Socceroos astatine the World Cup.

Source: AAP