Stan Collymore says Nottingham Forest may have positive news on the horizon.
Amid the uneasy tension between club owner Fawaz Al-Hasawi and Nottingham Forest fans, former player Stan Collymore is attempting to build bridges.
The former striker joined Forest fans outside the City Ground ahead of the weekend’s win over Bristol City, but also has a meeting scheduled with Al-Hasawi to present his ideas on how to help the club move forward.
Stan Collymore
Collymore, speaking on his personal website Collymore.com says that he does not want a job at Forest, but he purely wants his advice to be listened to, and acted upon.
One of the areas Collymore wants development is for a new director of football to be hired, and claims that he has not only put forward a name already, but that Forest are on the same track.
Describing the unnamed candidate as ‘exceptional’, Collymore said that the fact Forest were prepared to look at working with this particular individual, changed his outlook entirely.
He wrote: “The man I had in mind at AVFC thankfully has already been embraced by NFFC, an exceptional mind, an exceptional man and a thoroughly impressive football brain, he gets what is needed, knows how to translate it, knows how to beg, borrow and steal in the short term to be competitive.
“I can’t and won’t name the guy but this is why I agreed to listen to the owner on Tuesday at Forest rather than simply march.
“If this guy, I and others are embraced by the club and get to work, only lunacy on the part of any owner would stop a swift change at the club.”
Nottingham Forest owner Fawaz Al Hasawi
Collymore talks a lot of sense with his aims for Forest and supporters are advised to read his whole list of areas to improve and ideas, but fans are understandably sceptical of anything Al-Hasawi does after years of unfulfilled promises and stagnation.
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