Oliver Glasner has reached the point where he’s taking no prisoners as the head coach of Nottingham Forest, with Saturday’s 2-0 defeat, the game that has broken the Austrian.

Glasner tore into his Forest players after the reverse – the club’s fourth in the last five matches, with his team without a win since the 2-1 win over Aston Villa in mid-September.

The boss has now made it clear that changes are afoot for Forest. He’s even claimed that if the players don’t shape up, Marinakis will summon a sixth manager in just over a year to try and revive the club’s fortunes as a Premier League club.

His comments should make uncomfortable reading for Evangelos Marinakis. The Reds now have another manager under significant pressure and Glasner’s moan was about something much bigger than another defeat.

The Austrian made it clear that changing managers without addressing underlying problems will lead to the same outcome – and this is the firm message that Marinakis needs to hear!

Oliver Glasner has identified Forest’s biggest problem

There was no attempt to disguise his frustration, with Glasner even thumping the table in a passionate rant to his players, with emphasis placed on, ‘Get on board with how I do things, or leave the football club.’

Forest have appointed five head coaches in less than a year, with Glasner the latest manager tasked with restoring direction and delivering results – something which he’s not managed to achieve as of yet.

This has created a cycle that is simply hard to escape. Every new manager arrives with different tactical preferences, different demands and different recruitment priorities. Players take time to adapt, and things can have a disjointed feel to them when it comes to consistent results.

Glasner has recognised that by becoming the next head coach to take responsibility for Forest’s struggles, it doesn’t mean he can instantly change things.

He’s referenced the club repeatedly finding itself in the same situation, and that is definitely the most important part of his pretty damning assessment.

Marinakis has to recognise that managerial changes aren’t the long-term solution

Marinakis makes difficult decisions. He’s done that throughout his time as the Forest owner, and his ambition has definitely helped shape the club to become a Premier League outfit, even if the constant changes represent a lack of stability on his part.

Given that Marinakis has been at the club for 10 years now, there is an argument that his constant chopping and changing of management teams hampers the team establishing itself as a constant in the top flight – much like the owners at Brighton and Bournemouth have achieved.

Forest have moved on Nuno Espirito Santo, Ange Postecoglou, Sean Dyche and Vitor Pereira in a short space of time and Glasner hasn’t checked in with a magic wand in his hand.

Each appointment represents another reset – another fresh start. Yet, the frequency of those changes has created another problem – one of continuity.

A football club can’t develop as a unit when the direction and tactical implementation of a different manager occur at such regular intervals, and this is where Glasner’s warning is especially significant.

The Austrian is not simply asking Marinakis to afford him more time to get things right. He is effectively asking the owner to recognise that the club’s operation above the head coach must change if this is going to prove successful.

There is very little value in recruiting a respected and proven trophy-winning head coach if the conditions surrounding that coach remain fundamentally unchanged.

Marinakis has to decide whether he wants immediate reactions to disappointing results or a sustainable structure capable of delivering constant performances.

The ball is once again in Marinakis’ court and this time he has to get things right, with Glasner now likely to be in the owner’s sights after these latest comments.

George Syrianos at risk of looking foolish

At an evening with podcasters and sections of the media, the message from Forest’s Sporting Director was clear, Glasner would be the man to take Forest forward and patience will be afforded to the Austrian when it comes to results.

If Forest keep losing football matches, they will become cut adrift at the bottom of the table. The Reds are already at risk of becoming perilous, and if a couple of wins aren’t secured soon, the alarm bells could start to ring.

The Reds can’t score goals. Forest have found the net just six times in nine Premier League matches, with none of those coming on home soil. Embarrassing to say the least!

These comments from Glasner won’t do him many favours. It remains to be seen how the players will react, and with Manchester City to come next, things could get worse before they get better.

Forest have to get this right, and at the moment it does feel as though Syrianos might need to get in the ear of Marinakis and convince him to break the habit of a lifetime and give an underperforming manager a bit more time than usual.