Evangelos Marinakis ambition key to Oliver Glasner’s Nottingham Forest switch

Oliver Glasner pointed to “very ambitious” owner Evangelos Marinakis as the main reason he left Crystal Palace to join fellow Premier League side Nottingham Forest.

The 51-year-old was appointed on a three-year deal at the beginning of July after he spent the last two years at Selhurst Park.

Glasner met with Marinakis in Athens, where the pair went for dinner and the Austrian understood his ambition which attracted him to the City Ground.

Many clubs were linked with Glasner but he stated he always wanted to stay in England and said Marinakis was one of the few people more ambitious than himself.

Speaking in an introductory press conference which went on for more than an hour, he said: “My goal was to mainly stay in the Premier League. I had great talks with the owner, I went to Athens for a dinner. We talked about the vision for the club, the ambition.

“Last season they were trying not to get relegated but the year before they got close to qualifying for the Champions League.

“There is a lot of potential in the squad, very ambitious ownership. I thought this could be a quite interesting and exciting journey.

“When we had talks, it was like probably I found one of the few persons who is more ambitious than I am. So I think we will challenge each other with ambition, for me the difference is being ambitious.”

Nottingham Forest had four managers last season as Nuno Espirito Santo, Ange Postecoglou, Sean Dyche and Vitor Pereira all came and went.

Glasner became the fifth manager to take the position at Forest within the last 12 months and is hoping he can bring success the club, like he did at Palace by winning the FA Cup and Conference League.

Asked whether the the frequent sacking of managers at Forest was a worry, Glasner