zerozero – Nothing pointed to your departure from Forest? Vítor Pereira – Nothing, zero signs. I started suggesting players for next season, the plan for where we needed to reinforce, I chose the pre-season in the Algarve, the match against Sporting, the match against Vitória de Guimarães. All of this on the penultimate day before the famous email. They even called me from the club to ask if I wanted to travel on the same day for the Udinese tournament, with Barcelona, or if I preferred to travel the day before. I told them to go in the morning and return right after the last 45-minute game, so we could train in Nottingham the very next day. This was the day before I was sacked. I had been in London a few days earlier with the board. We sat down at the table and defined everything: 'let's go ahead with this and that'… zz – Did Forest’s owner, Evangelos Marinakis, also take part in those meetings? VP – Yes, he was there. zz – And, suddenly… VP – I didn't even remember that famous clause [which allowed unilateral termination by either party up until 11:59 PM on June 30]. It never even crossed my mind. I woke up in the middle of the night with my children downstairs in the living room. I heard a noise, went down, and they told me: 'Dad, you've been fired.' That was it, just like that. I am convinced the decision wasn't even the owner's. Around him, they put the idea in his head that the best thing to be more ambitious was to go after Oliver Glasner. I respect his work, he won a Europa League, but after the work we did there… I should have received a phone call. That was the bare minimum. They could have thanked me, said they were opting for something else, and we would move on. Not like this. zz – Was there any subsequent conversation? VP – No, we never spoke again. I thought I had seen it all in football, but no. Football is like that. The holidays were ending and I was going back the following Monday. We were all organizing our lives to return. I left all my bags there. Then I had to go back there on purpose to pick them up. Excerpt from Vítor Pereira's interview with zerozero. Link to full interview (in Portuguese)   submitted by   /u/ricab98 [link]   [comments]