Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis heeded the words of Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher.
Forest head coach Steve Cooper has signed a new three-year contract with the club, despite recent reports suggesting the offer had been withdrawn after a difficult start to life in the Premier League. Forest are bottom of the table after their opening eight games, but the majority of supporters retained faith in Cooper after last season's promotion.
Earlier this week, Carragher insisted Cooper needed "a lot longer" at Nottingham Forest amid doubts over his future. Evangelos Marinakis now seemingly agrees with the former Liverpool defender after securing his head coach's future at the club.
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"There will be a lot of questions asked about it, certainly from the outside, because of the expenditure," Carragher told Sky Sports earlier this week. "When a team comes up from the Championship you expect them to be fighting for their lives throughout the season.
"But because of how much money Nottingham Forest have spent, there may be an expectation that they shouldn't even be in this position. The players that have been brought in, yes some of them have Premier League pedigree.
"I think he [Cooper] deserves a lot longer than he's got to prove something in the next two or three games because when you actually think of what he has actually done for Forest, how long they have been out of the Premier League, 23 years.
"It was not just getting them up, they were bottom of the League when he came in. He's been bottom of the League last season, a completely different proposition, but the way he spoke then about the club, you'd think he was a fan in some ways.
"So there's no doubt what he did last season, he really embraced the legendary European Cup figures and he's got a real connection between himself and the supporters. I don't think that will be broken and I don't think Forest fans will be calling for Cooper to go or anything.
"I think they realise more than anyone what he has done, right now there may be calls from outside but you just hope the owner will give him more time just because of the fact of what he did last season and it's a unique situation. He knows more than anyone that sooner or later results will have to turn."
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