Not a happy club!
https://www.theguardian.com/football...player-bonuses
Fawaz al-Hasawi, the increasingly beleaguered owner of Nottingham Forest, has been asking potential buyers of the club for an annual salary potentially rising above £1m and a series of financial demands that include an extraordinary clause entitling him to whatever the players earn in bonuses.
Hasawi has also had to stave off a potential revolt from the club’s players, the Guardian can reveal, because of the frequency with which they have been paid late or not received their bonuses.
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Forest are currently 16th in the Championship after four years under Hasawi’s ownership in which the average attendance has plummeted, the league position has steadily got worse every season and the club have had to deal with a series of winding-up orders in the high court, a transfer embargo for breaching financial fair-play regulations and starting the season with a reduced capacity because the ground did not have a safety-certificate holder.
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Forest’s players are becoming so frustrated by the frequency they have not been paid on time that when it happened again during the last international break some of the more aggrieved members of the first-team squad demanded a top-level meeting to air their grievances. Those players also discussed between themselves whether they would be within their rights not to train as a protest. They opted against taking such drastic action, deciding it would be better to maintain their professionalism, but it was not the first time it had been mooted and that indicates the strength of feeling inside the club.
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With this uncertainty as the backdrop, there are also concerns within the club that the notoriously trigger-happy Hasawi is contemplating removing the latest manager, Philippe Montanier, or that the new owners might want to bring in their own man.
Montanier is the seventh permanent manager in the Hasawi era but his position has been weakened only three months into the job and his close ally, the director of football, Pedro Pereira, resigned this month. Pereira, previously the chief executive at Sporting Braga, is well regarded within the industry and his appointment was regarded as a coup when he arrived in June under the recommendation of Evangelos Marinakis, the Greek shipping magnate and Olympiakos owner who was planning his own takeover.
None of that can hurt us when we play them on Saturday.
Forest is also one of the clubs that decided against appointing Warnock in the summer (Blackburn another) so he has a little point to prove!
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Originally Posted by jon1959
Not a happy club!
