{"id":469151,"date":"2019-06-28T08:44:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T12:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=469151"},"modified":"2020-12-28T11:33:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T16:33:48","slug":"martin-oneill-nottingham-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/06\/28\/martin-oneill-nottingham-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin O&#8217;Neill Leaves Nottingham Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nottingham Forest have confirmed that manager Martin O&#8217;Neill has left the club after just five months in charge. O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s assistant, Roy Keane, also left Forest last week in an attempt to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2019\/jun\/23\/roy-keane-leaves-nottingham-forest-after-five-months-at-club\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> resurrect his own managerial career<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h1>Martin O&#8217;Neill Departs Nottingham Forest<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NFFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NFFC<\/a> can confirm that manager Martin O\u2019Neill has left the club.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CrN1hQwQYh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/CrN1hQwQYh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nottingham Forest FC (@NFFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFFC\/status\/1144581477658779648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>The Tenure of Martin O&#8217;Neill<\/h2>\n<p>The 67-year-old was appointed by Forest in January to replace the outgoing Aitor Karanka. O&#8217;Neill, a Forest legend in his playing days, guided the club to ninth place in the Championship, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2019\/jun\/28\/nottingham-forest-sack-martin-oneill-after-just-five-months-in-charge\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Guardian&#8217;s<\/a> Daniel Taylor understands that a number of key players at the club have turned against the Northern Irishman.<\/p>\n<p>In an extremely short statement on the club website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghamforest.co.uk\/news\/2019\/june\/club-statement\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nottingham Forest said<\/a>: &#8220;Nottingham Forest can confirm that manager Martin O\u2019Neill has left the club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The club would like to thank Martin for all his efforts during his time at The City Ground and wish him well for the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>What Next?<\/h2>\n<p>Taylor&#8217;s report in the Guardian suggests that Sabri Lamouchi, a former France international whose last managerial job was at Rennes, is in line to replace Martin O&#8217;Neill.<\/p>\n<p>Lamouchi&#8217;s first job as a manager was with the Ivory Coast national team, a position he held for two years between 2012 and 2014. He then left to spend three years at Qatari side El Jaish before securing the post at Rennes.<\/p>\n<p>For O&#8217;Neill, it&#8217;s unclear what could follow. He left a successful stint with the Republic of Ireland national team to return to Forest, so to have that taken away after only five months must be a big hit for the former <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/sunderland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sunderland<\/a> and Aston Villa boss.<\/p>\n<p>In total, he oversaw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.com\/martin-oneill\/stationen\/trainer\/176\/plus\/1\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">19 games<\/a> at the City ground, winning and losing eight each along with securing three draws.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"l0isQsO5T9hoqxI8O8uhcw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1141623918\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'l0isQsO5T9hoqxI8O8uhcw',sig:'bHkS8UjzmjIJB1DVCRw9u8XhknlI3jQ1ubgPbG2DcbA=',w:'594px',h:'440px',items:'1141623918',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nottingham Forest have confirmed that manager Martin O&#8217;Neill has left the club after just five months in charge. O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s assistant, Roy Keane, also left Forest last week in an attempt to resurrect his own managerial career. Martin O&#8217;Neill Departs Nottingham Forest &nbsp; #NFFC can confirm that manager Martin O\u2019Neill has left the club.https:\/\/t.co\/CrN1hQwQYh \u2014 Nottingham [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":469186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33,30],"tags":[197,168,3258,891,136],"class_list":["post-469151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-championship","category-news","tag-championship","tag-efl","tag-martin-oneill","tag-nottingham-forest","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}