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Stuart Pearce hopes to be reunited with Glasgow Celtic striker Georgios Samaras when he takes over as Nottingham Forest manager this summer, [football] direct news understands.
The former England star, who spent 12 years as a player at the City Ground between 1985 and 1997, succeeds caretaker boss Gary Brazil on July 1 after penning a two-year deal.
Last week he turned down the role due to personal circumstances and media commitments but he was unveiled by the Championship outfit today and has three months to put transfer plans in place.
A source close to the club told FDN that Pearce is a long-term admirer of Samaras, who he signed for Manchester City in 2006, in a £6million move from Dutch side Heerenveen.
The Greece international is yet to commit his future to the Scottish champions and his deal in Glasgow expires at the end of the campaign.
Celtic are keen to keep hold of the 29-year-old despite the fact he has averaged less than a goal every three games this term, and a lucrative contract extension remains on the table.
According to the Forest source, their chances of luring him back to England will increase significantly if they achieve promotion to the top-flight via the play-offs.

Wonderwall wrote:

Im_Spartacus wrote:

roblues wrote:
Decent little FA Cup run along the way too, although we were worse than shite at Blackburn in the quarter final

I remember that we'll, so bad there were full scale scraps between blues behind the goals whilst we were defending a corner, and Micah ended up in tears that day with the abuse he got. Dark days

the only resounding memory I have of that is the VERY LOUD and continual singing of "you're not fit to wear the shirt"

Match report here from the Guardian, my word it brings back bad memories

http://www.theguardian.com/football/200 ... .blackburn

Wonderwall wrote:

Wonderwall wrote:

Im_Spartacus wrote:

roblues wrote:
Decent little FA Cup run along the way too, although we were worse than shite at Blackburn in the quarter final

I remember that we'll, so bad there were full scale scraps between blues behind the goals whilst we were defending a corner, and Micah ended up in tears that day with the abuse he got. Dark days

the only resounding memory I have of that is the VERY LOUD and continual singing of "you're not fit to wear the shirt"

Match report here from the Guardian, my word it brings back bad memories

http://www.theguardian.com/football/200 ... .blackburn

SLIM, this was the game I rang you from the pub in Blackburn that was overtaken by City fans, the locals werent very impressed LOL

Benjay wrote:

Wooders wrote:NO home goals since Jan in his final season

Yeah. But you never thought you would see David James play up front did you? We've had worse...

Wonderwall wrote:Give him a chance, he wasnt great with us, but that was a long time ago and it was his first job. Dont forget the U21's had a good record and international football is completely different to club management, he has the credentials to do well at forest IMO.

Dubciteh wrote:

Wonderwall wrote:Give him a chance, he wasnt great with us, but that was a long time ago and it was his first job. Dont forget the U21's had a good record and international football is completely different to club management, he has the credentials to do well at forest IMO.

the u21s got to one final and got hammered by Germany and then with a wealth of talent didnt win a game in 2013.

He has also had a shot with forest before when he was caretaker and it ultimately ended with them being relegated. bar half a season with us he has done fuck all in his managerial career except serve up absolute tosh football and talk like a bloke down the pub whos just taken over a team.

And if he signs Samaras it will show he never learns!

Wonderwall wrote:

Dubciteh wrote:

Wonderwall wrote:Give him a chance, he wasnt great with us, but that was a long time ago and it was his first job. Dont forget the U21's had a good record and international football is completely different to club management, he has the credentials to do well at forest IMO.

the u21s got to one final and got hammered by Germany and then with a wealth of talent didnt win a game in 2013.

He has also had a shot with forest before when he was caretaker and it ultimately ended with them being relegated. bar half a season with us he has done fuck all in his managerial career except serve up absolute tosh football and talk like a bloke down the pub whos just taken over a team.

And if he signs Samaras it will show he never learns!

What about the U21's being unbeaten in qualifying? He has done some good, you are just selective in your view

Dubciteh wrote:

Wonderwall wrote:

Dubciteh wrote:

Wonderwall wrote:Give him a chance, he wasnt great with us, but that was a long time ago and it was his first job. Dont forget the U21's had a good record and international football is completely different to club management, he has the credentials to do well at forest IMO.

the u21s got to one final and got hammered by Germany and then with a wealth of talent didnt win a game in 2013.

He has also had a shot with forest before when he was caretaker and it ultimately ended with them being relegated. bar half a season with us he has done fuck all in his managerial career except serve up absolute tosh football and talk like a bloke down the pub whos just taken over a team.

And if he signs Samaras it will show he never learns!

What about the U21's being unbeaten in qualifying? He has done some good, you are just selective in your view

unbeaten in qualifying and then going and not winning a match is not good enough for me. I watched a lot of their games and they were horrific.

Wonderwall wrote:

Dubciteh wrote:

Wonderwall wrote:

Dubciteh wrote:

Wonderwall wrote:Give him a chance, he wasnt great with us, but that was a long time ago and it was his first job. Dont forget the U21's had a good record and international football is completely different to club management, he has the credentials to do well at forest IMO.

the u21s got to one final and got hammered by Germany and then with a wealth of talent didnt win a game in 2013.

He has also had a shot with forest before when he was caretaker and it ultimately ended with them being relegated. bar half a season with us he has done fuck all in his managerial career except serve up absolute tosh football and talk like a bloke down the pub whos just taken over a team.

And if he signs Samaras it will show he never learns!

What about the U21's being unbeaten in qualifying? He has done some good, you are just selective in your view

unbeaten in qualifying and then going and not winning a match is not good enough for me. I watched a lot of their games and they were horrific.

Would that have been Pearces fault or the quality of players at his disposal when playing against better opposition.

Slim wrote:
If that's your stance, why would we credit him with the wins during qualifying against lesser opposition?

Wonderwall wrote:

Slim wrote:
If that's your stance, why would we credit him with the wins during qualifying against lesser opposition?

depends on the level of opposition, he couldnt beat the likes of Spain but would have a good chance v Moldova. If you havent got the players, then you change the tactics, I dont remember the U21's getting battered at any time.

Slim wrote:

Wonderwall wrote:

Slim wrote:
If that's your stance, why would we credit him with the wins during qualifying against lesser opposition?

depends on the level of opposition, he couldnt beat the likes of Spain but would have a good chance v Moldova. If you havent got the players, then you change the tactics, I dont remember the U21's getting battered at any time.

So he did well against Moldova and poorly against Spain and somehow you think that one is down to the players not being good enough and the other is down to his tactics.

And you think other people are guilty of selective viewing?

BTW, City never got battered at home in the second half of the 06/07 season. Maybe not getting battered is something you can use to defend that as well, good luck.

Wonderwall wrote:

Slim wrote:

Wonderwall wrote:

Slim wrote:
If that's your stance, why would we credit him with the wins during qualifying against lesser opposition?

depends on the level of opposition, he couldnt beat the likes of Spain but would have a good chance v Moldova. If you havent got the players, then you change the tactics, I dont remember the U21's getting battered at any time.

So he did well against Moldova and poorly against Spain and somehow you think that one is down to the players not being good enough and the other is down to his tactics.

And you think other people are guilty of selective viewing?

BTW, City never got battered at home in the second half of the 06/07 season. Maybe not getting battered is something you can use to defend that as well, good luck.

you work with the tools you are provided with. He had a crap team in 06/07 also.
He was 1 kick away from guiding us into europe. Or was that a fluke?

Wonderwall wrote:

Dubciteh wrote:

Wonderwall wrote:

Dubciteh wrote:

Wonderwall wrote:Give him a chance, he wasnt great with us, but that was a long time ago and it was his first job. Dont forget the U21's had a good record and international football is completely different to club management, he has the credentials to do well at forest IMO.

the u21s got to one final and got hammered by Germany and then with a wealth of talent didnt win a game in 2013.

He has also had a shot with forest before when he was caretaker and it ultimately ended with them being relegated. bar half a season with us he has done fuck all in his managerial career except serve up absolute tosh football and talk like a bloke down the pub whos just taken over a team.

And if he signs Samaras it will show he never learns!

What about the U21's being unbeaten in qualifying? He has done some good, you are just selective in your view

unbeaten in qualifying and then going and not winning a match is not good enough for me. I watched a lot of their games and they were horrific.

Would that have been Pearces fault or the quality of players at his disposal when playing against better opposition.

Slim wrote:

Wonderwall wrote:

Slim wrote:

Wonderwall wrote:

Slim wrote:
If that's your stance, why would we credit him with the wins during qualifying against lesser opposition?

depends on the level of opposition, he couldnt beat the likes of Spain but would have a good chance v Moldova. If you havent got the players, then you change the tactics, I dont remember the U21's getting battered at any time.

So he did well against Moldova and poorly against Spain and somehow you think that one is down to the players not being good enough and the other is down to his tactics.

And you think other people are guilty of selective viewing?

BTW, City never got battered at home in the second half of the 06/07 season. Maybe not getting battered is something you can use to defend that as well, good luck.

you work with the tools you are provided with. He had a crap team in 06/07 also.
He was 1 kick away from guiding us into europe. Or was that a fluke?

That was Keegan's team and he didn't have a chance to Corradi it yet.

See? We can both play this game.

Wonderwall wrote:

Slim wrote:That was Keegan's team and he didn't have a chance to Corradi it yet.

See? We can both play this game.

So it was also keegans team the next season with no money to overhaul it as KK spent it all.

a good point you make.

Pearce was looking in bargain buckets not the top shelf