Marinakis steps back from Nottingham Forest ownership duties

Evangelos Marinakis has stepped backmost from his ownership duties astatine English Premier League soccer nine Nottingham Forest, with the East Midlands nine within scope of Champions League qualification, British media reported.

Forest is sixth successful the Premier League table but is level connected points with fifth-placed Chelsea and has a crippled successful hand. A top-five decorativeness would clinch Forest a spot successful the Champions League adjacent season, successful what would beryllium their archetypal since 1980.

Marinakis besides owns Olympiakos, that has conscionable won the Greek Super League and is besides acceptable to vie successful Europe’s elite contention adjacent year.

A UEFA regularisation bars clubs under the aforesaid ownership radical from competing successful the aforesaid European competition.

Documents filed to Companies House showed Marinakis would beryllium “ceasing to beryllium a idiosyncratic of important control” of Forest, with his shares being enactment into a unsighted trust. [Reuters]