Nottingham Forest supervisor Nuno Espirito Santo has informed his aspect to disregard all of the “compliments” coming their approach as they preserve a shock bid for Champions League qualification.
Nuno has guided Forest into third place within the Premier League forward of Saturday’s conflict at seventh-placed Bournemouth, who’ve additionally defied expectations this season.
Forest have gained seven of their final eight league video games, with the lone attract that sequence coming towards leaders Liverpool.
That spectacular streak has sparked hopes of a return to continental competitors and revived reminiscences of a golden period when Forest gained the European Cup beneath celebrated boss Brian Clough in 1979 and 1980.
However Nuno insisted there was nonetheless loads of work to be carried out between now and the top of the season, telling a pre-match press convention on Friday: “The expectations, we can’t management them. It does not change our strategy.
“When there are too many compliments it’s not good, hold them away.”
Nuno, who celebrates his 51st birthday on Saturday, added: “The ambition is just not measured by that (reward). The ambition is the best way we function and enhance as a staff as a result of if we enhance as a staff the membership shall be higher with the problem forward of us.”
Forest’s progress means the Metropolis Floor is changing into an more and more engaging possibility for potential new signings, though Nuno insisted: “Why do we have to promote ourselves to gamers?
“In the event that they need to be a part of us, if one thing is occurring, they should need to be a part of us.
“We’re a very good membership. It is a good membership for the gamers. We’re enhancing, rising, making an attempt to get higher, that is how it’s.”
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