Former Premier League manager Neil Warnock has revealed that Nottingham Forest approached him to become the club’s manager, he told The Athletic.
The ex-Cardiff City and Sheffield United boss is currently without a club after leaving the South Wales-outfit in November, ending a three-year stint with the club. Warnock is one of the most experienced managers in the English game. Having managed 761 games, he has won 300 of them and gained a points-per-game average of 1.44.
The 71-year-old has never been shy to speak his mind over the years about football and its finer details.
Speaking with The Athletic, Warnock revealed that before he was appointed as Cardiff boss in 2016, he was approached by several clubs, and one of them was Forest.
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“Before going to Cardiff — which did feel right from the start — I’d had two or three clubs come in for me: Nottingham Forest, Derby and Blackburn”, he said.
“I had told Sol Bamba (then at Leeds) and Junior (Hoilett, then at QPR) to wait for me but even they were getting fed up as it was October before I went to Cardiff (and signed both players).”
Warnock went on to manage the Bluebirds for 144 games before leaving last November after just over three years in charge.
Whereas Forest went down the route of hiring Phillipe Montanier, who served just six months with us before he was replaced by Mark Warburton in March 2017.
What an adventure we would have under Warnock though. A proven manager who is capable of getting any top-half Championship side into the Premier League, given he is handed the right tools by the powers that be.
Warnock would have been the perfect appointment for us, the fact he took Sol Bamba with him to Cardiff would have probably meant we would have got him, building a formidable team that could have been back in England’s top flight by now.
