Vitor Pereira needs stability in order to succeed at Nottingham Forest

There’s a peculiar futility in watching Vitor Pereira return to the Premier League limelight not as a successor to a stable project but as another hired hand trying to stave off disaster. When Nottingham Forest announced his appointment on February 15, it didn’t feel like a fresh chapter so much as déjà vu – the fourth time in a single season that the club had changed managers, a modern-day emblem of turmoil rather than continuity. Forest’s 2025/26 campaign before Pereira’s arrival was a frenetic carousel of coaching philosophy and conflicting tactical identities. Nuno Espirito Santo, who had led them to an unexpected seventh-place finish in 2024/25, was dismissed amid tensions over transfer...