The English Football League approved the acquisition of Nottingham Forest Evangelos Marinakisom. Who also owns Olympiakos, Marinakis convinced the leadership of the league that he can be entrusted with the management of the two-time winner of the Champions Cup. Five-year rule in Nottingham Fawaz Al Hassawi has now officially ended.

In the situation with Marinaksis, the rule according to which the English club can only be owned by a person with an unblemished reputation was not an empty formality. In Greece, the owner of Olympiakos was accused of organizing match-fixing matches, bribing and intimidating judges and links with criminal organizations. In the homeland, Marinakisa was eventually acquitted, and he himself in an interview with the Air Force stated that all the accusations were nothing more than the intrigues of envious persons.

Marinakis promised that the team that, according to him, deserves a place among the elite of English football, a bright future awaits, and coach Mark Warburton, who led Lesnikov in March and saved them from relegation to League 1 only in the last round (Forest outstripped Blackburn in the tournament The table only on a difference of the hammered and passed balls), will work in club long years.

In January, investors from the United States showed interest in buying Nottingham Forest, but then the deal did not take place.