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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ben Fisher

Marinakis, seafood and ‘sweet honey’ of Europe led Glasner to join Nottingham Forest

Oliver Glasner is unveiled as the new Nottingham Forest manager.
‘I had the feeling this is the right place’: Oliver Glasner is unveiled as the new Nottingham Forest manager. Photograph: Harriet Massey/Getty Images

Oliver Glasner said he wants to bring back the “sweet honey” of European football to Nottingham Forest and suggested the club’s owner, Evangelos Marinakis, may be one of few people more ambitious than him.

Glasner revealed talks with ­Marinakis over a seafood platter in Athens convinced him to become Forest’s fifth head coach in less than 12 months, the Austrian signing a three-year contract after a fruitful two years at Crystal Palace.

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