Lopetegui He has been free since he left Wolves before the start of the season due to doubts regarding the project
He would become the second Spaniard to coach Nottingham Forest, after karanka I directed them between January 2018 and January 2019
He Nottingham Forest has shown interest in acquiring the services of Julen Lopetegui if Steve Coopercurrent coach of the ‘Tricky Trees’, be fired.
Cooperwho promoted the team to the Premier League and kept it last season, is under pressure after having lost the last four games and having fallen to sixteenth placen, four points from relegation. Particularly painful was the 5-0 midweek defeat to Fulham, which may have caused Evangelos Marinakisowner of Forest, has lost patience.
The dismissal of Cooper could be effective in the coming days if Forest does not get something positive this weekend in the visit to the Molineux Stadium, where they face the Wolverhampton Wanderers. Forest’s interest in Lopetegui has been going on for some time, but there has been no firm offer yet.
Lopetegui He has been free since he left Wolves before the start of the season due to doubts regarding the project, since the club sold key players in the summer and did not give the Spaniard the replacements he promised, due to a series of complications with the ‘fair financial play.
The former Sevilla player remained in England, waiting for the opportunity to be on the bench to open up and even rejected an offer from Al-Ittihadafter the departure of Nuno Espirito Santowhich would have meant a payroll of 18 million euros per month.
To reach the Forest, Lopetegui would become the second Spaniard to coach the double European Cup champion, after Aitor Karanka I directed them between January 2018 and January 2019.