Former Nottingham Forest boss Vitor Pereira has been in the news often over the past few weeks with contrasting claims over how his time at The City Ground came to an end.

Before Oliver Glasner came through the doors, Vitor Pereira did a fine job steering Nottingham Forest away from the drop zone at the end of last season before he was then let go.

Vitor Pereira’s differing claims around his Nottingham Forest sacking

Last week, in an interview with The Athletic, Vitor Pereira claimed that he found out about his sacking by Nottingham Forest via an email from the club.

However, he has contradicted himself this week, as quoted by Voetbal International, as he explained that it was actually his child who informed him that he was sacked.

“I knew there was a termination clause in my contract, but it didn’t even occurred to me that it would be lit. One day I woke up in the middle of the night to the noise of my children in the living room. I went downstairs and they said, ‘Daddy, you’ve been fired.’ That’s how it went.”

This is a vastly different stance from that he claimed just last week, both can’t be true, so he really needs to get his story straight.

However, his consistent comments around his dismissal being unfair does suggest that he believes he was unfairly sacked and has a point to prove which should see him desperate to get back to management as soon as possible.

Pereira keeps emphasising that he did well at Forest, almost trying to talk himself into another role and to dispute any concerns over his Forest sacking.

The timing of his comments over the past few weeks, could suggest he is keen on the Crystal Palace job considering Pierre Sage is almost certain to get the sack over the international break.

Pereira is desperate to move on and prove Forest wrong, so we would assume it won’t be long before he is back in the dugout somewhere.