Ange Postecoglou, showing defiance, anticipates discussions with Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis regarding his team’s seven-game winless streak. However, he asserts that he possesses the determination to improve his team’s situation.

Before today’s loss to Newcastle, which placed them slightly above the relegation zone after just one point from four Premier League games under his management, pressure was already mounting on Postecoglou.

The Forest boss is resolute in his belief that he can reverse the situation at the City Ground.

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“I expect to have a discussion with the owner and everyone else at the football club about what we’ve embarked on here, where we’re at and what we need to do for sure,” the Forest boss said after the game

“If people want to make an assessment of me after three and a half weeks, which we’ve had six or seven games in a row, then there’s nothing I can do about that.”

Pressed further on his future, Postecoglou said: “It’s a fun game, isn’t it? It’s fun every week. It’s me this week and who knows, maybe you’re all right and I’m gone. Next week it’ll be somebody else and there’s a lot of fun around it.

“I don’t care. I love the position I’m in right now where I have to fight for everything. It’s what I’ve done my whole career.

“I started in Australia when I was 32 years old in semi-professional football. And I’m here in the Premier League at the age of 60. Do you reckon I lack self-belief or don’t like a fight? I didn’t get here because of my connections.

“In fact, I’ve picked fights. I have, even in the schoolyard. I’ve picked fights with people who I knew would beat me up. That’s the kind of person I am.

“I totally understand that it’s part of the fanfare around the Premier League that there needs to be a manager who’s always under the spotlight. I get that. It’s my turn at the moment.

“But I think, like most other managers, I think we actually enjoy this bit.”