Frank Clark reveals future manager list, no Dane Murphy grudge and Evangelos Marinakis verdict

Nottingham Forest have not seen a manager leave for another job since David Platt landed the England Under-21s role in 2001.

Since then 17 men have been sacked or quit with Billy Davies getting the chop twice. Now the Reds appear to have landed the right man for the longer term in Steve Cooper as they aim for the Premier League, potentially ending their 23-year exile in the next few weeks.

As it stands, Cooper's most likely City Ground exit would only be for a top flight club. Reds legend Frank Clark knows all to well what it is like to be in the Forest dugout having managed the team, while he has also spent a period as chairman before Fawaz Al Hasawi bought the club. He says Forest will already be preparing for every eventuality on the managerial front, but more pressingly, they will be forming their list of potential summer signings.

"That's always a worry in football (losing the manager). No doubt the hierarchy are aware of that," he said on this week's Garibaldi Red podcast. "I always remember about three weeks after I became chairman, a very good friend of mine, Michael Pavis said to me 'who is your next manager going to be?'.

"I'd only just appointed Steve Cotterill but he asked what if Steve falls under a bus or if someone comes in for him. From then on I always had a list of about five managers which I updated and moved up or down depending on results. It happens too often with clubs that they lose a manager and there's panic, so you need forward thinking about what happens if a manager goes.

"Hopefully that doesn't happen but you never know. I'm sure the current hierarchy will have thought of that but I'm sure they're more busy compiling a two lists of signings depending on what happens if we go up or not.

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