Nottingham Forest look set to appoint Ange Postecoglou as successor to the departed Nuno Espirito Santo.
Reports suggest the former Tottenham Hotspur boss, who won the Europa League with the Londoners last season, has agreed terms to take over at the City Ground.
With seemingly only official confirmation missing, NottinghamshireLive took the opportunity to speak to football.london's Tottenham correspondent Alasdair Gold for the inside track on the man who led Spurs to glory.
How is Ange’s time at Tottenham Hotspur viewed?
AG : Ultimately he'll be remembered as the man who ended Spurs' 17-year trophy drought and gave the fans that special night in Bilbao followed by the parade a couple of days later with an estimated 220,000 of them out on the streets of N17 celebrating it all.
That European triumph will be the abiding memory of his tenure and why he'll always be welcome back in Tottenham. If you drill down there were of course difficult times at a club going through yet another rebuild, not least a dreadful second Premier
League season with a 17th-place finish after his fifth place without Harry Kane in his first campaign.
Injuries were a common theme, some in the first season through Postecoglou's extreme style of football but some of the re-injuries in his second campaign came from a plethora of reasons not of his own making and killed any momentum.
He forged a remarkable togetherness among the players through a huge injury crisis over the winter months, with double figures unavailable most weeks, a bond that eventually led them to that Europa League triumph.
Spurs fans rarely got to see Postecoglou's true brand of football in operation as much as expected after the early months of his tenure and ultimately he adjusted it to win that trophy, but the fact that most fans believed at the time that he had earned the chance of a third season says a lot about how he was viewed.
You’ve worked with both, can you put into words how different/similar Nuno and Postecoglou are in terms of football philosophy?
AG : You couldn't really get much more different. Whether in the dressing room, press conference or in terms of style both men are polar opposites in the way they act and expect football to be played.
Nuno is a man of few words and his football was always, first and foremost, about keeping the opposition out.
Postecoglou is a man of many words and his football is about goals, which brought some lovely passages of football but also a defence that spent most games racing back trying to prevent counter attacks or balls over the top.
He is a man with a very strong belief in his way of playing the game - expect lots of goals from low balls across the six-yard box - but it will be interesting to see if even the most hardened of philosophies was shaken by the experiences of his first two years in the Premier League.
Postecoglou will face another packed fixture schedule with Forest's European exploits so he will have to compromise in certain aspects.
What does Postecoglou demand of his players? Is he good at building relationships with fans?
AG: There are two sides to Postecoglou with the players. In training and on the pitch, he demands a lot and they put their bodies on the line for him.
Full-backs will be inverted and be expected to play as central midfielders at times and midfielders will have to be box to box but also switch and cover those full-backs at times.
Every player can expect to clock up the miles on the turf and the training sessions - in empty weeks - are as full-on as games in order to recreate what the players will go through in the matches.
Yet Postecoglou would also go easy on players at times, giving them extra days off and being understanding of certain personalities rather than a disciplinarian.
He was a strong man manager, a father figure of sorts and they loved him for it. When he was sacked it sparked the biggest outpouring of support from a group of players we've seen at the club.
In terms of the fans, he said a lot of the right things to begin with and the supporters bought into the style of football.
There were little missteps along the way though - not understanding some Spurs fans wanting their team to lose to Manchester City to prevent Arsenal winning the title, some clashes with abusive supporters and cupping his ear to the away faithful at Stamford Bridge after a Tottenham goal that was later ruled out.
He had lost a large number of them with the results in the Premier League earlier this year but won most back with that night in Bilbao.
How good a match are Forest and Postecoglou? How would Postecoglou react to Marinakis’ ‘hands on’ approach?
AG: From the outside it feels like jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Spurs is a club that seems to be in a constant state of change and Postecoglou fell victim to that, being sacked despite claiming their first European trophy in 41 years.
Yet at Forest he will take on someone in Marinakis who is far more hands-on that Daniel Levy ever was and seemingly governed by emotions, something the former Tottenham chairman rarely was.
Postecoglou will not be told what to do and his decision to throw the Premier League essentially with weakened teams to concentrate on the Europa League, when he realised the squad could not handle both, went down badly with some in the club hierarchy.
It didn't stop them celebrating that evening in Bilbao wildly of course but it ultimately led to his departure.
It does show though that Marinakis is not going to be able to influence what Postecoglou does. The 60-year-old sticks to his guns and has walked out of previous jobs when he has not felt the full backing and he'll have no qualms about doing that in the future.
His relationship with Marinakis could help but this is certainly not a manager who will be told what to do.
Who finishes higher in the Premier League, Frank’s Spurs or Postecoglou’s Forest?
AG: That's a tough one at this early stage. I would say Thomas Frank has - the Bournemouth defeat aside - started really impressively at Spurs and the club bought or loaned well eventually in the summer transfer window.
Much will depend on how the Dane adjusts to his first experience of Champions League football and the pressure that will put on Tottenham's Premier League performances and the squad.
With Postecoglou, there was an instant burst of great form out of the gates at Tottenham but that came after a tough pre-season, albeit a messy one.
The key at Forest will be that lack of pre-season and the players not burning out as they take on the sprinting that will be asked of them in matches now.
I think Frank's Spurs will be more stable in the Premier League this season and as Forest have not had to juggle European football for 30 years, I think that will see them finish below Tottenham this campaign as they try to handle it all and the demands of a very different manager.