Nottinghamshire

Nat Hayward
BBC Sport journalist

Nottingham Forest boss Sean Dyche has been speaking to the media before Saturday's Premier League game against Manchester United at the City Ground (15:00 GMT).

Here are the key lines from his news conference:

• Dyche began by providing an update on Chris Wood's fitness: "Wood is possible for the Leeds game, but won't make this one."

• Elsewhere, Oleksandr Zinchenko's return is "taking longer than we thought", Dilane Bakwa is "still a no but is making good progress", Ola Aina is "making good progress" and Angus Gunn has "opened up his knee ligaments".

• On comments he made on 'The Overlap' suggesting he could have won more games than Ruben Amorim as United boss: "I didn't question him as a person and I would never do that. Clickbait kills anything. The basics may have worked better was my suggestion and they have changed their style, so fair play to him. They are playing quicker forward and longer, a bit tighter in getting back into their shape. That's management, that's coaching."

• On Morgan Gibbs-White: "He's a terrific professional, he comes in with a smile and wants to work. He's infectious in what he does and enjoys what he does. He, among a number of others, have taken to it really well and want to progress and move forward for the team, me, the club and the fans."

• Dyche said his side "flat-lined a bit physically and emotionally" in last weekend's defeat at Bournemouth after the "newness, freshness and new voices" that were present in the Europa League win over Porto in his first match in charge.

• More on the squad's adaptation to his methods: "It's finding that level of consistency daily and getting the players to produce that level daily. There's been a lot of changes for the players, some of them have had three managers in a very short space of time. You hope it works straight away but it is difficult to achieve that."

• On Ryan Yates: "He's been terrific. You want those kind of players to deliver out there on the pitch, of course, and that's where they really make their names but some also make it from inside the camp and what they do around the club too. He's always ready and a shining light for that."

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Chief football writer Phil McNulty has been answering your questions on all things Premier League.

Dan asked: There was a time in football (barely one or two seasons ago) where everyone including managers said "judge the team after 10 games". With the situation at Nottingham Forest and everyone having meltdowns over Liverpool, that seems to have gone out of the window. Why?

Phil answered: The days of managers getting two or three seasons before their work is assessed went out of the window a long time ago. The fear of relegation, and the financial implications, holds clubs in its icy grip so decisions are taken much more quickly.

The penalties for failure are so high these days, that clubs can sometimes panic - and quickly.

I think Forest was a situation where the relationship between owner Evangelos Marinakis and manager Nuno Espirito Santo had broken down irretrievably - such a shame after getting into Europe.

Marinakis then made a mistake in going for Ange Postecoglou, simply because it meant Forest going straight from A to Z in terms of approach. You could not get a more different style than Postecoglou's all-out attack from Nuno's counter-attacking approach, although Postecoglou was hardly given a chance to instigate his changes before Forest fans decided he was not for them.

Now Forest are back to the more conservative, pragmatic approach of Sean Dyche so let's see how that works.

Read the rest of Phil McNulty's Q&A here

Manchester United and Newcastle are closely monitoring England midfielder Elliot Anderson, with Nottingham Forest demanding a fee between £100m and £120m for the 22-year-old. (Florian Plettenberg), external

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