Fawaz Al Hasawi is close to leaving Nottingham Forest as chairman with the club close to being taken over by a US consortium led by John Jay Moores. 

Al Hasawi will still have a 20 per cent stake of the club but will have no say or control at the City Ground once the takeover is complete.

Since buying the club in the summer of 2012, the Kuwaiti businessman has enjoyed little success in his time there and his five year plan to take the Reds back to the top tier of English football has simply had the opposite effect with the East Midlands club sitting in 20th position, only two points away from the drop zone.

In his five years at the club, Fawaz Al Hasawi has gone through eight managers, sold some key players behind the managers' back whilst failing to re-invest the cash, a number of unpaid bills leading to appearances at the High Court and simply done more harm than good for Nottingham Forest.

Al Hasawi has made plenty of mistakes during his time in charge of the club and the list could go on and on, but here are THREE of the biggest he has made during his time as Nottingham Forest owner and chairman...

Selling Oliver Burke

When Fawaz Al Hasawi sold both Jamaal Lascelles and Karl Darlow to Newcastle United behind Stuart Pearce's back in the summer of 2014, fans began to turn on him.

But selling Oliver Burke behind current boss Philippe Montanier's back in the most recent summer was the final straw for a number of Forest supporters.

Forest enjoyed a fairly good start to this season despite conceding plenty of goals, and much of this was down to the youngster Burke with Championship teams struggling to contain his pace and power.

Admittedly £13 million isn't a bad deal for a 19-year-old, but the deal was completed without a sell on clause plus the money was not re-invested back into the club at a time where they needed to strengthen.

Since selling Burke, Forest just haven't look the same.

Sacking Sean O'Driscoll

On Boxing Day in 2014 Forest had just impressively beaten Leeds United 4-2 sitting comfortably in the play-off positions before Fawaz Al Hasawi decided to sack manager Sean O'Driscoll just hours after the match, because he wanted an iconic manager with Premier League experience.

Who knows where Forest could have finished that season if Al Hasawi had decided to keep O'Driscoll, with the Reds playing an attractive brand of passing football that was getting results.

To make the decision worse, the Kuwaiti man replaced O'Driscoll with Alex McLeish which saw the East Midlands club drop down the table considerably, finally resulting in the Scot being sacked only five weeks into the job.

If Al Hasawi had kept O'Driscoll, it could have been a whole lot different for Nottingham Forest.

 

Controlling the club too much

It's quite a general point, but the bottom line is that it could have been so much different for Fawaz Al Hasawi if only he let someone control the club behind the scenes.

The club was a toy that he did not want to share with anybody else, and this was evident when both Paul Faulkner and Pedro Pereira decided to depart their roles with the club after only joining a few months before.

After so much excitement and buzz about Al Hasawi's arrival to the club in 2012 in hindsight it has become one of the most disastrous and embarrassing times in the club's history.

The sole reason for this is that he didn't want anybody else to control the club but him, and that will always be his biggest mistake.

Nottingham Forest fans... Would you agree that these three mistakes have been Al Hasawi's biggest? How can the arrival of John Jay Moores change the club? How excited are you to see the end of the Al Hasawi reign? Let us know what you think in the comments below!