Nottingham Forest boss Philippe Montanier is under serious pressure to revive the club’s fortunes after overseeing just one win in ten games.

The Reds have won just once since the controversial sale of Oliver Burke back at the end of August and it is a worrying time for the supporters of a once proud football club at this present time.

The French boss is Forest’s first foreign manager in their long history and although he has done a lot of good since arriving in the East Midlands, the fact remains that football is a results based business.

With Queens Park Rangers arriving at the City Ground on Saturday and American investors set to complete a takeover at the club, Montanier knows that he needs to start leading his team back to winning ways quickly.

Given his start to life as the manager of Nottingham Forest, Football League World writer Lee Clarke looks at three reasons why the club would be better off sacking Philippe Montanier.

Frenchman is too nice

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Whilst Philippe Montanier is clearly a reasonable guy that doesn’t make him a decent football manager and Forest’s priority right now is ensuring that they can get to the 50-point mark, which would see them maintain their Championship status next season.

Over the past couple of months, the Reds have toiled at times and the French boss has looked like a man who cannot motivate his team to better themselves.

Forest need a manager with a nasty streak at this moment in time and as respectable as Montanier might be, he currently looks incapable of lifting his side out of a worrying slump.

Good options available

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Although Nigel Pearson flopped at Derby County, the fact that he can go into a club and kicking a few backsides would make him a decent appointment given the current predicament at the City Ground.

Forest missed a trick in the summer when they didn’t appoint the seasoned Neil Warnock into the vacant managerial position and if they are thinking of making a managerial change, it is vital they make a move whilst the season can still be resurrected.

Tim Sherwood, Paul Lambert and Gianfranco Zola all possess experience of managing in English football and are likely to be touted as the club’s next boss should Montanier get the chop.

Tactical ineptitude

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During the first month of the campaign Montanier rightly took time to get to know his squad, with several changes made to the team with each passing week.

Two months later and his persistent tinkering shows little sign of curtailing and the Frenchman still doesn’t know what his best team is.

With the results so poor at present certain supporters are beginning to lose patience with the current boss. For example, Jack Hobbs can’t get a game for love nor money, despite being an experienced Championship defender, whilst the influential David Vaughan was left out for a large chunk of the opening exchanges.

Nottingham Forest fans, should Montanier be sacked? Who should replace him if he does fall by the way side? Let us know in the comments below!!!