Steve Cooper insists he is not thinking about his own situation as a fifth straight defeat piled the pressure on the Nottingham Forest boss.
A damaging first half proved costly as the Reds fell 4-0 at Leicester City. It leaves them bottom of the Premier League table, with four points from their first eight games.
It is not the return to the top-flight Forest will have been hoping for after last season’s play-off success ended a 23-year absence from this level. And it remains to be seen whether owner Evangelos Marinakis gives Cooper more time to gel a dressing room which saw 22 new arrivals during the summer transfer window, amid suggestions former Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez could be in the frame should a change be made.
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“I’m not thinking about that,” Cooper said, when asked how much time he believes he will be given to turn results around. “I understand where the question comes from, but I’m not thinking about my personal situation, apart from how I can be at my best every single day.
“The tougher and harder it gets, the harder I work and the more it means to me. Hopefully that’s what leadership is, standing up and being counted, trying to be a role model within the training ground.
“It’s a poor run of results. The stats, with chances and goals we are conceding, are not good. We are trying to address it.
“What I would say is, you didn’t see the team give up. I know it’s a group of players that care, even though we are new. Sometimes you can feel that it isn’t that, and I’m not sensing that at the moment.
“We’re just trying to put loads of layers of our work to become the team we want to be. We’re not that at the moment.”
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