‘Players sent agents to talk to my CEO at Forest – they’re now in non-league’
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Martin O'Neill has hit back at players who went to see the CEO when he was at Nottingham Forest to try and get him the sack.
O'Neill spent some time at Forest in 2019, but his reign was short-lived and he was sacked just under six months into the job. He fumed on talkSPORT: "There was this idea that there was player power when I was at Nottingham Forest.
"Please do me a favour, I was there 19 games and player power – there wasn’t a player strong enough or with the personality to usurp me. It was just ridiculous to talk about it.
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"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, bigger 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, or Henrik Larsson, or Neil Lennon coming up to me at Celtic, I’d dismiss them but I might think about it.
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"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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