Forest owner Marinakis promises investment for Premier League return

Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis explained the club will get the expenditure it wants to recruit top players right after it sealed its return to the Premier League by beating Huddersfield Town in the Championship playoff remaining at Wembley.

Forest was relegated from the top rated flight in 1999 and it goes up to England’s best flight with Bournemouth and Fulham, who won automated promotion.

Shipowner Marinakis, who also owns Greek club Olympiakos, took about the 2 times former European Champions in 2017.

“It truly is a magical evening, not only for me but for the 1000’s and even hundreds of thousands of supporters within just the United Kingdom and all about the entire world,” Marinakis explained to Sky Sporting activities on Sunday.

Nottingham Forest wins Championships playoff final, back again in Premier League just after 23 several years

 

“As I reported just about 5 a long time ago, we have to bring Nottingham Forest back again exactly where it belongs. Now we want a lot more. Now we are back again in the Premier League, so we want to be as superior as doable.

“We require to give all the ammunition to the group with fantastic gamers.”

Forest head coach Steve Cooper, who took cost of the club in September last 12 months when they were base of the Championship table, hailed his side’s “sense of perception”.

“Just about every time we’ve had an regular general performance or a decline we’ve recovered,” Cooper told reporters. “There is only after we have missing two video games on the operate and ironically what that was from Huddersfield but we bounced back again.

“It is a magical football club and we have just reminded the world of that.”

Forest, who had crushed Sheffield United to reach the playoff ultimate, were English champions in 1978 less than Brian Clough and went on to win the European Cup in 1979 and 1980.