The squad is improved but still not on the level of the best teams in Europe and with Barca's continued financial issues this is as good as i can get. No champions league this year will be a disaster with the spine of my squad hitting their late 30s
Champions League Draw
Benfica & AC Milan will be tough competition but the group is very winable.
We won every game except away to our closest rivals Celta Vigo. We also beat Real Madrid in Madrid 4-3. They're having an awful year considering they still have Mbappe and world player of the year Haaland
We completely forgot our shooting boots after dominating the game in every other way#
2nd Leg Barcelona 1-0 Leipzig Barca won 3-1 on Pens
We played so much better but could only salvage 1 goal over the 120 minutes. Luckily Leipzig did not live up to the German history of penalty takers and we finally made it to the last 8
QF Draw
The road to the title goes through England
Domestic
We are 16 points clear in the league and into the Spanish cup final. A Spanish treble is on but we'll need to start playing so much better in Europe.
In front of 122,000 people, we took a commanding win over Arsenal. It took till the last 1/4 of the game before finally getting a goal and we quickly added a 2nd.
2nd Leg Arsenal 0-0 Barcelona Barca win 2-0 on agg
A boring game for us and Arsenal deserved more than they got but thank goodness they didn't.
Semi Final
Man City and PSG with their oil money is all that can stop a classico final
We utterly Robbed Real in one of our worst performances of the season. We twice took the lead but had half the team booked while Real had 2 goals disallowed. Very lucky to get Barcelona off the list.
La Liga
Several records are broken in this historic season. Shame we lost the Spanish Cup final
Finally, after over 5 months without work and only Feynoord job reached the level of insecure Forest is back in the hunt for a manager and unless Bayern comes up I'll be here.
Squad
This squad is worse than the one i had in the championship. Major surgery in January awaits this squad.
Table
It's not great but i struggle to see why Goncharenko got the sack.
Will be doing a bit more on player updates since I'll be at Forest for a long time unless Bayern comes up.
Big transfer window with a whole new 11 players bought while even more than that left.
Gonzalez, Sousa & Neto will play a huge role in trying to keep our place in the top flight along with Liverpool loanee Essugo they go right into our starting 11.
Vinicius, Figueira, Aravena, Luiz and Bird are all future prospects that should see playing time. Toure & Alves are loaned out till they get a work permit.
Fixtures so far
We started with some tough games with Arsenal & Man Utd but also suffered disappointing and undeserved defeats to West Ham and Sheff Utd. Form looks far better with the January additions settling in. Chelsea's result looks amazing but there in the bottom half and onto their 3rd manager of the season.
The new squad really turned the corner and flew up the table and had a brilliant run to the FA Cup Final
FA Cup Final
We almost got our hand on Forest's 1st major trophy in decades but an 89th-minute winner kept Forest from their destiny and Europe.
Final Table
Our charge up the table left us only 4 points away from a European spot. Next season if we can carry over this form there is no doubt we should be going for Europe if not the top 4.
We have a squad i think can put in a real challenge for the top with almost a few starting 11 being signed now since i took over.
Main Transfers
The goalkeeper was the last spot i managed to fill and a loan to buy Barcelona no2 Stahinja Babic is signed by me for the 2nd time. Right back Jeffrey Simons from relegated Brentford will be a huge coup with the two biggest signings being Russel Craft from the Man Utd reserves & Jevon Simons