Martin O’Neill has shot back at players who went to see the CEO during his time at Nottingham Forest in an attempt to get him fired.
O’Neill was at Forest for a short time in 2019, but his reign was cut short as he was fired just under six months into the job. “There was this idea that there was player power when I was at Nottingham Forest,” he raged on talkSPORT.
“Please do me a favor; I was there for 19 games, and there was no player strong enough or with the personality to usurp me.” It was foolish to bring it up.
“Players didn’t get me out in the end. I believe a couple of players, nondescript players, sent their agents up to talk to the CEO; better fool him for listening to them if that’s the case.”
Former Leicester, Celtic, and Aston Villa boss O’Neill added that he wants to run the club the way he wants, joking: “If I’d got Chris Sutton, Henrik Larsson, or Neil Lennon coming up to me at Celtic, I’d dismiss them, but I might think about it.
“When I’ve got a bunch of nondescripts doing it at Nottingham Forest, please, give me a break honestly.”
And O’Neill was then asked to open up on the players who went to the CEO by Jim White, and he added: “So I hear, they’ve done fantastically those lads… all three of them have signed for Real Madrid… Nonsense, absolute nonsense; they’re all playing non-league!”
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