Nottingham Forest
Today's Talking Points
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1Forest have just appointed their fifth manager in twelve months: Oliver Glasner, who arrives fresh from guiding Crystal Palace through the best spell in that club's history — an FA Cup, a Community Shield and a Europa Conference League title in two and a half seasons.
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2He's inheriting a club that's burned through Nuno Espírito Santo, Ange Postecoglou, Sean Dyche and Vitor Pereira in barely a year, so his first job is basically just convincing everyone he'll still be there at Christmas.
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3Forest sold Anthony Elanga to Newcastle for £55m over the summer — a reminder that even Forest's good news stories, like developing a genuine Premier League winger, tend to end with someone else cashing in on the result.
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4Their opening weeks have been settling-in territory rather than statement-making: a 0-0 at home to Tottenham where Forest actually had a goal ruled out for handball on the line by VAR in the 67th minute.
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5With that much managerial change at the City Ground, 'stability' is now doing a lot of work in every article written about Forest — Glasner's entire pitch is that he's the one who can actually make it stick this time.
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Top thing to say down the pub
Forest fans have stopped bothering to learn new managers' names properly — there's no point getting attached.
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Avoid saying
"Forest are still riding that European high" — that was two managers and the best part of a year ago; say it now and you'll sound like you haven't checked in since spring.