Head coach Nuno Espirito Santo was fired by Nottingham Forest early on Tuesday, becoming the first English Premier League manager this season to lose his job.

¡°The club thanks Nuno for his contribution during a very successful era,¡± said a club statement released just after midnight.

The Portuguese coach had been in charge for 21 months at the City Ground, but two weeks ago said his relationship with the club¡¯s owner, the Greek billionaire Evangelos Marinakis, had deteriorated.