Marinakis 'well aware of the challenges' - Dyche
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Nottingham Forest have not kept a clean sheet for 20 games, a run stretching back to April and a 1-0 win over Manchester United.
They scored just once under Ange Postecoglou in five Premier League games, conceding 10 goals, and are two points from safety.
A realistic ambition at the start of the season was to win the Europa League and challenge for Europe again, but owner Evangelos Marinakis accepts Forest need to stabilise first.
"He's well aware of the challenges," said new boss Sean Dyche in Wednesday's news conference before the Europa League game against Porto. "He spoke very openly about the challenge. I don't think he thinks it's a gimme just because of last season.
"He's been around football a long time with Olympiacos and then here. So stability is the first move - but that's not acceptable for the whole run of being Nottingham Forest manager.
"I don't want that. I don't want to sit here and go: 'Well, that's OK then.'
"I always say to players don't accept 'alrightness'. It doesn't get you anything. Let's push for more.
"As a football manager, a football coach and football players, you should be wanting more - but the first thing is: can we just stabilise the situation?
"It still needs the basics put back into the team from my point of view, because they have lost sight of that a little bit."