Nottingham Forest were onto their third manager of the campaign this time last year, but their start this season compared with last has been similar.

Oliver Glasner has only recorded one win in Forest's first nine league games this term - the same as 12 months ago, when the joint efforts of Nuno Espirito Santo, Ange Postecoglou and Sean Dyche also registered a sole win.

Glasner does at least have six points compared to last season's five at the same stage. But despite the City Ground manager merry-go-round, they were 18th last term at this point.

The summer appointment of Glasner following his exit from Crystal Palace was perhaps a surprising one. The Austrian left Palace as the club's most successful manager after winning the FA Cup, Community Shield and Conference League in the space of 12 months.

It did, however, show ambition from the East Midlands side, and by their own recent standards, loyalty has so far remained.

Glasner is thought to be safe for the moment, and with the head coach just under four months into a three-year contract, parting company with him would be expensive.

BBC Sport has been told by multiple sources that Glasner's salary at the City Ground is in the region of £10m a year.

So while a change of head coach seems unlikely, for now at least, Glasner has promised a change of tack in his approach to managing Forest.

"We start with hugging," Glasner told BBC Radio 5 Live. "If hugging doesn't work, we try the opposite."

He later told Match of the Day: "The only way is to change it or these things will happen again. That's what we will do."