Not many players can claim to have lost a manager in their sleep, but that was the reality for some Nottingham Forest players on Monday night, who got their head down while Nuno Espirito Santo was still their boss and opened their eyes to notifications that Ange Postecoglou was about to become their new one.

A number of the Forest heroes who propelled them into Europe last season must have looked at the appointment over their muesli and feared for their future.

Nuno to Postecoglou is about as radical a tactical switch as it is possible to imagine in the Premier League, rather like training in a classical French kitchen and arriving for a shift to be told you’re making sushi. It’s not just a new menu, it’s a whole new way of cooking.

And if you think Postecoglou is about to come in and p

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