The owner of Nottingham Forest has added to the growing sense of turmoil surrounding the Championship club by appearing to suggest that he is preparing to walk away from the City Ground.
Fawaz al-Hasawi responded on Twitter to a fan asking whether he would consider standing down as chairman ‘and just be the owner’ by saying: ‘I will soon from everything’.
His post comes in a turbulent week for Forest. On Sunday Hasawi sacked Stuart Pearce as manager, replacing him with Dougie Freedman, Forest’s seventh manager in less than three years.
Two teenagers have already been ordered to write letters of apology to Hasawi after his car was damaged after the derby win at Derby County last month.
The club are also operating under a transfer embargo for a breach of Financial Fair Play guidelines and have failed to pay Peterborough the latest instalment of Britt Assombalonga’s £5m transfer fee. Forest’s chief executive, Paul Faulkner, resigned on Monday.
It is against that background that Hasawi’s tweet will offer little encouragement to Forest fans.
