🔗 Share this article

Pressured manager Ange Postecoglou offered an emotional defence regarding his track record while promising to claim trophies for the team provided with patience

The veteran coach is being questioned having been unable to triumph in a single one of his initial seven fixtures following his appointment instead of Nuno Espirito Santo last month

Forest have been considering potential alternatives over the pause in fixtures, including former Burnley manager the experienced tactician a potential option considered to possibly take over despite Postecoglou only being appointed for just 38 days

They host Chelsea on Saturday while Postecoglou presented a five-minute monologue at his pre-match press conference, with the team occupying 17th position in England's top flight

"Some look on the negatives yet I notice at the development occurring," he stated, "I'm truly optimistic as I have a squad of emerging talents willing to change"

The manager additionally revealed he did not speak with the club's owner Evangelos Marinakis throughout the break

"I don't intend to use my energy about others' opinions" he continued

"I just don't fit, not just at Forest, throughout football" he elaborated

Prior Management Role

"I became manager of the North London club and received instructions from the owner at the time 'this organization must secure a trophy'"

"He commented 'we've tried to hire successful managers, Jose [Mourinho] and the former Chelsea boss and it hasn't worked, we need a different approach'"

"I was slightly offended by that since I consider myself as a winner"

Defending His Record

"We finished fifth in my initial campaign" he recalled

"On each occasion the star striker found the net I would hope he had remained for additional time as it would have proven useful to retain him after finishing fifth"

"Yet somehow that season has vanished from public memory" he argued

Moving Ahead

"Therefore, we arrive at the present situation where there remains a different story to tell, that perhaps I am not a disappointing tactician who got lucky to secure this position"

"but possibly I'm a leader that when allowed opportunity, the tale invariably finishes the same"

"At all my previous clubs, the outcome is identical - through my leadership holding silverware"

He claimed European silverware last spring - Tottenham's first trophy after a long drought and their first European honor after forty-one years

Previous Scottish champion likewise vowed, provided with patience, he would maintain his history of winning trophies at each club he's coached