Glasner Set for Move to Nottingham Forest: Austrian Success Coach Reportedly Becomes Fifth Manager Within a Year

Glasner would be the fifth manager at Nottingham within less than a year. The club is said to have made use of a clause allowing the contract of Pereira, who had only succeeded Sean Dyche in February, to be terminated in June. However, the separation from the Portuguese has not even been officially announced yet. This continues an unprecedented carousel of managers at the traditional English club.

The fact that Glasner would join the side that finished 16th in the table last season, a Europa League semifinalist, would be the second attempt at a collaboration. In December 2023, he had been passed over in favor of the Portuguese Nuno Espirito Santo. At the time, the Austrian missed out on making the move to the island. Now, a good two and a half years later, the engagement is reportedly still set to happen after all.

Glasner's Stations and Successes

After his engagement at Eintracht Frankfurt, where he won the Europa League in 2022, Glasner was active at Crystal Palace from February 2, 2024. In May, he bid farewell there with the triumph in the Conference League. It had already been established beforehand that he would no longer extend his contract. The departure from Crystal Palace had already been decided at the turn of the year.

At Crystal Palace, the Austrian had won both the FA Cup and the Conference League in the past season. Nevertheless, he had publicly acknowledged that his team had been significantly weakened by the lucrative sales of Eberechi Eze to Arsenal for 69 million euros and Marc Guéhi to Manchester City for 23 million euros.

In the CV of the Innviertel success coach Oliver Glasner, alongside the engagements at Crystal Palace and Eintracht Frankfurt, are also earlier stints at LASK and VfL Wolfsburg. Most recently, the 51-year-old Upper Austrian was in talks with AC Milan, but they opted for the Portuguese Ruben Amorim. Now, the move to the Premier League — although the exact status of the negotiations must still be viewed with caution.

Because in football, one should never rule anything out. English media report that the Ried success coach will remain in the English Premier League, and when English media know it, it will quickly be copied in all other countries as well. Even during a football World Cup period, the future of the Innviertel success coach Oliver Glasner is naturally a topic. However, the dpa report itself carries the headline "Oliver Glasner fixed at Nottingham? Not so fast" and ends with the words "and England is and remains, of course" — mid-sentence.

Nottingham Forest: Between Ambition and Crisis

Nottingham Forest, English champions in 1978 and winners of the European Cup in 1979 and 1980, has been going through turbulent times for months. With a squad of 29 players and a total market value of 592.80 million euros, the club nominally has solid resources. The sporting value of these investments is questionable, however, given the disappointing 16th place in the previous Premier League season.

The club had reached the Europa League semifinals in the 2025/26 season before the sporting slump followed. Managerial changes seem to be the only constant at Nottingham Forest. With Glasner, who brings both international titles and experience from German and Austrian football, the club would be turning to one of the most distinguished current coaches in European football.

Alongside the potential engagement at Nottingham Forest, Glasner was recently also discussed as a candidate to succeed Julian Nagelsmann as Germany's national team coach, should the DFB part ways with Nagelsmann. With the German team's elimination at the ongoing World Cup, this question is moving further into focus. For now, however, Glasner's priority appears to lie with the engagement at Nottingham.

From First Attempt to Second Try

Back in December 2023, when Nottingham Forest first considered Glasner as a desired candidate, the collaboration had failed due to a veto in favor of Nuno Espirito Santo. At the time, the club opted for the Portuguese coach, who in the meantime is also no longer in office. Just under two and a half years later, Glasner now gets his chance to continue his coaching career in England at the same club.

For Nottingham Forest, the coming season is about stabilizing the squad and correcting the sporting decline of the previous season. With a coach who, despite limited resources at Crystal Palace, managed to win both the FA Cup and the Conference League, the club appears to be turning to a coach who can make more out of less. The contract duration of three years gives Glasner sufficient time to implement his ideas.

As the APA report of July 1, 2026 notes, the future of the Innviertel success coach Oliver Glasner is a defining topic in European sports media even during a football World Cup period. After his stints at LASK, VfL Wolfsburg, Eintracht Frankfurt, and Crystal Palace, the 51-year-old Upper Austrian would be the first Austrian head coach in the Premier League in a long time.

Outlook: Not Yet Officially Confirmed

Should the move actually go through, Glasner would take on a particular challenge at the traditional English club. The club, which was among the dominant sides in Europe in the late 1970s, has fluctuated between ambition and reality in recent years. Glasner's reputation as a title winner and development coach could give the club new impetus.

It remains unclear, however, exactly when the official confirmation will follow. Until then, the move remains an expected but not completed execution. The coming days will show whether the 51-year-old Upper Austrian actually takes the next career step on the island.

The Glasner case also illustrates the personnel instability that has characterized Nottingham Forest in recent months. Four managerial changes within a year are unusual in the Premier League and underscore the club's sporting crisis. With Glasner, a fifth coach would attempt to initiate the turnaround.