Nottingham Forest have made a change to their backroom team as Sabri Lamouchi prepares to launch the Reds’ pre-season campaign next week.
Olivier Pédémas has been appointed Lamouchi’s number two at the City Ground, according to Ouest France.
Pédémas worked with Lamouchi when the Frenchman was head coach at El Jaish and before that, with the Ivory Coast national team.
The report clams the retired former goalkeeper was offered the position by Lamouchi last Tuesday, having previously turned down the role a year ago.
Following Pédémas decision to remain in his position of head coach at Le Sable, Forest appointed Bruno Baltazar.
Earlier this year, Lamouchi approached Alain Pochat to join his backroom staff, but the FC Villefrance coach declined.
“The timing was problematic,” he said. “I’d had contacts for a while, with Sabri Lamouchi and the person I know very well in his staff. I looked at it, but it was really late. I’d already started my season here, at FC Villefranche.
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“I’d already done all the recruiting. They called me on a Thursday, and they needed me to go to Alicante on the Saturday for preseason. There was also my family to manage. There’s no French school there.
“There were many parameters that were really tight timing-wise…I didn’t really see myself leaving the club, the players I’d convinced to come."
