Given how busy he is running his many businesses, it’s nice to see that Nottingham Forest isn’t just some side project for Evangelos Marinakis.
Speaking to BBC Radio Nottingham before Forest’s 3-0 defeat to the other football club that he owns, Olympiacos, Marinakis spoke of his long term vision for the club.
He said: “We believe there is a great potential with Nottingham Forest. What we would like to do is take it step-by-step, improve the infrastructure, rebuild the City Ground which is a very important project.”
As well as a general overview of his ambition for the club, Marinakis spoke of what his aims were for the team this season. There was one word during his interview that got a lot of Forest fans stirring, and that’s ‘promotion’.
“Promotion is our target, it’s not easy, but I don’t want to promise things, I want to deliver things.”
Now whilst a lot of owners of Championship clubs will talk about promotion, it appears as though it’s more the way he says it and the confidence in which he delivers it is what’s impressing Nottingham Forest fans. Given the strenuous relationship that they had with their last owner, it now looks as if they’ve found someone they can trust and believe in.
Hard not to be impressed. His passion and will to win shines through.
— DaveTheRed (@Twistedfirework) July 17, 2019
Top bloke, confident we’re going places with him.
— James Taylor (@jtweets92) July 17, 2019
Great interview and love the passion and plan for our future
— Frazer Smith (@jalfrazer) July 17, 2019
Love this. It’s not about managers its about a club ethos that winning is what matters.
— Michael White (@M77Whitey) July 17, 2019
Have a lot of respect for Marinakis. People moaning about him have a short term memory! He has the right ideas and has the passion to make it work. I trust him, we will get there ???????? up the reds
— Nicky Long (@Nicky_Long) July 17, 2019
I love Mr marinakis’s attitude and his vision and his determination to make our club great again whatever it takes ????????????????
— Midlands red (@wykesdarren) July 17, 2019
So true , what s great owner and lets hope the fans get behind the reds as much ????⚪️????⚪️
— David gravener (@DGravener) July 17, 2019
Track record of delivering. He’s transformed the infrastructure of the club and we’re on the right path. I believe he will get it right. #nffc
— Martyn Earl (@martynearl) July 17, 2019
