Softfootball gathered that Oliver Glasner has verbally agreed a three-year contract to grow to be the brand new head coach of Nottingham Forest FC, with discussions additionally protecting the membership’s switch plans forward of the brand new season.
The Austrian supervisor is about to switch Vítor Pereira on the Metropolis Floor after departing Crystal Palace, the place he loved a profitable spell. Glasner guided Palace to the UEFA Europa Convention League title following the membership’s historic FA Cup triumph in 2025, enhancing his fame as one of many Premier League’s most revered tacticians.
A former defender, Glasner spent the vast majority of his enjoying profession with SV Ried, profitable the Austrian Cup in each 1998 and 2011 earlier than transferring into administration. His teaching profession has been outlined by tactical flexibility, sturdy defensive organisation, and a capability to construct aggressive groups able to difficult above expectations.
His appointment marks one other managerial change for Nottingham Forest, with Glasner turning into the membership’s fifth head coach in fewer than 12 months. Forest’s hierarchy believes his expertise in European competitors and the Premier League can present higher stability whereas serving to form the squad by means of the upcoming switch window.
The settlement alerts Forest’s ambition to determine a long-term challenge underneath an skilled supervisor with a confirmed monitor file of success.
