Bizarre! How Glasner's predecessor found out about his sacking

Nottingham Forest had an anything but easy 2025/26 season. With Nuno Espirito Santos, Ange Postecoglu and Sean Dyche, three managers were relieved of their duties over the course of the campaign.

As the fourth coach, Vitor Pereira managed to secure survival. Heading into the summer with a positive feeling, he fully expected to stay on at the club.

During the summer break, however, he learned of his departure in a rather unusual way. "I woke up in the middle of the night – my kids were downstairs in the living room. I heard a noise, went downstairs, and they said to me: 'Dad, you've been fired,'" the 58-year-old told "ZeroZero".

Sacked by email

The club officially informed him of his dismissal via email at 11:58 PM on June 30. He had a clause that ran until the end of June.

The Portuguese tactician felt the handling of the situation was unacceptable. "They should have thanked me and said that they were deciding to go in a different direction – and that would have been that for us," said Pereira.

In the end, the Portuguese was replaced by Oliver Glasner. After a difficult start, the Upper Austrian recently celebrated an important victory against Manchester City.

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