“Unfortunately for Forest, one man was not quite so enamoured: Nuno Espirito Santo, the manager who has led Forest back into Europe for the first time in 30 years and, unreported until now, has had a spectacular fallout with Edu behind the scenes.
Nuno’s relationship with Edu started badly and, since then, it has deteriorated to the point where there is an acceptance at the City Ground that the damage is potentially irreparable. Edu arrived with Kia Joorabchian, the influential businessman and football advisor, as his close ally. The manager has made his feelings clear, particularly about Edu, both to the man himself and others at the club.
It is personal, deeply personal, between himself and Edu and perhaps the most worrying aspect for Forest fans is that, as things stand, it is difficult to see the two men making up. Of the two, Nuno has largely been the aggressor, outspoken in the extreme. Edu has been staying away from the club’s training ground.
This has been bubbling away for the past two months and has clearly put Marinakis in a difficult position, to say the least, when two of the most important people at the club are not even on speaking terms.”