The root of Nuno’s complaints was that Forest had been unable to pull the squad together quickly enough, such importance he puts on pre-season preparations.
The club have still spent around £150m, with Omari Hutchinson joining from Ipswich for a record fee, James McAtee signing from Manchester City and bringing in Douglas Luiz on loan from Juventus.
They still want another goalkeeper and left-back before Monday’s transfer deadline with Botafogo defender Cuiabano and goalkeeper John Victor expected arrivals.
Nuno should ultimately get what he wants, just not when he wanted it, and it will now be up to the head coach to adapt having previously preferred to work with smaller squads.
With Forest in Europe, on top of their domestic duties in league and cup, running a small squad would have been impossible and foolish.
There will be movement out before Monday’s 19:00 BST deadline though, Nuno not wanting to have players hanging around who simply are not going to play.
He said: “I think we have to do it. We want to have all the players in the squad motivated. The club is trying to do that. There’s still one day to go and after that we will see the picture of our squad.”
But is he happy with the squad?
“Let’s see when it’s complete we can answer the question better,” he said. “We have good options but when the squad is totally complete we can make a better judgement.”
He was far more relaxed in his pre-match press conference on Friday, in contrast to his frustrated stance before games with Brentford and Crystal Palace.
He said he expected to still be in charge at the end of the international break, when Forest go to Arsenal, yet BBC Sport had been told his position was uncertain, amid suggestions of a breakdown of relations with global sporting director Edu.
The former Arsenal sporting director was officially appointed in July, and senior Forest sources have said they had been unaware of Nuno’s unhappiness, although Nuno gave noticeably short answers when asked about Edu on Friday.
Marinakis himself expects to smooth over any problems.
He told TNT while in Monaco for the Europa League draw: “Everything is solid. We all want Nottingham to succeed. We are here in the good days but we are even closer in the difficult days, so personally I don’t see a problem.
“We are all together, united, and we’ll make some corrective actions and everything will be smooth and ready to go.
“We have a solid relationship. Of course, sometimes we can be nervous, say one thing, say another, but what counts at the end of the day is the real relationship between me and Nuno, between Nuno and the players and between the players and ourselves.”
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