1.24 PPG with Wolves 

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Nottingham Forest have announced former Wolves boss Vítor Pereira as their new head coach, marking their fourth managerial appointment of the season. Pereira succeeds Sean Dyche, who was forced to step down during the week, at the City Ground and arrives on an 18-month contract. Pereira is an old acquaintance of Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis and has been given another chance to stave off the threat of relegation.

The Portuguese had failed to win a single game in his first 10 league matches this season with Wolves, picking up just two points. But the 57-year-old left Molineux with at least some pride about his achievements. In the previous season, he secured their Premier League status with a strong of form at the tail end of the campaign. That will surely have been a factor in his appointment, as well as his good relationship with Marinakis. The pair worked together in 2014/15, when he celebrated the double of league and cup victory with Olympiacos, the Greek Super League outfit also owned by the businessman.

Forest started the 2025/26 season with Nuno Espírito Santo as manager, who had guided them to Europa League qualification the season prior. However, the Portuguese’s tenure ended after just three league games. His successor, Ange Postecoglou, lasted just eight games where he failed to win a single match. Dyche had 25 games to alleviate the club’s relegation worries and, despite a respectable record of 10 wins and 10 defeats, he was unable to rescue them from the threat of relegation. In the Europa League, the team reached the play-off round, where Fenerbahce now awaits Pereira as their next opponent.

Pereira made his breakthrough at FC Porto, where he once served as assistant to André Villas-Boas and succeeded him as head coach in 2011. As a two-time Portuguese champion, Pereira first moved to Al-Ahli in Saudi Arabia in 2013, then to Piraeus in early 2015, to Fenerbahce six months later and then to Munich. His longest spell to date was three years in China with Shanghai SIPG from 2018 to 2020, before returning briefly to Fenerbahce in 2021. In 2023, he joined two clubs in Brazil, another in Saudi Arabia and most recently Wolves. Together with three clubs before his success in Porto, Forest is Pereira’s 14th club as head coach.