"It has come as a big shock to me. Peter has been so good to me and I'm absolutely gutted about it,'" D'Laryea told the Nottingham Evening Post.
"If it wasn't for him I would probably still be playing reserve team football right now, so I owe him a lot and a lot of the other young players are the same.
"I know the team is having a bad run, but he should definitely have been given a bit more time."
"I don't think it is the best of times just before the busy Christmas period but we will try to get some wins for him.
"We definitely feel like we have let him down. The players definitely have to take a lot of the blame."