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Nuno Espirito Santo and Nottingham Forest had a unique summer in terms of planning their transfer activity. When the window opened, they were preparing a team capable of playing in national competitions and in the Europa conference league after qualification via their 7th place Premier league finishing.
However, since UEFA’s decision to have them exchanged competitions with Crystal Palace, they must now prepare a quality team of the Europa League. As part of this, they concluded an agreement to sign the young man from Manchester City, James McATEE.
The 22 -year -old has already been spoken Glowly by manager Pep Guardiola: “Macca has this quality … He has the capacity to create chances, he is there”.
City is currently looking to shrink their team, with a club signature Jack Grealish being loaned to EvertonAnd the forest not only see that as an opportunity to sign McATEE, but also another young talent in the city.
Forest offer for Double City Swoop Lewis
In addition to their pursuit of McATEE, Forest submitted an offer to Manchester City of 25.8 million pounds sterling for Rico Lewis. This comes from the French reports via Get news from French football.
It is believed that the offer represents transfer fees of 21.5 million pounds sterling, and the rest consists of additional performance modules. This offer has been refused and Lewis remains under contract with City until 2028. Guardiola praised the versatility of LewisBy saying: “He is an exceptional player, offensively and defensively. He can play in different positions; he helps us to play.”
On the basis of these comments, can take a big offer to convince the winning manager of the treble to separate from Lewis.
If Forest returns with an offer that the city finds acceptable, then they will open negotiations with Lewis agents. Lewis is with CAA Base LtdWith whom the owner of the Evangelos Marinakis forest has a vast experience in the past, because they represent the current forest players Chris Wood and Ryan Yates, as well as the former manager of the Steve Cooper club.
Forest recruitment for the future of the club
Last season in the Premier League, Forest’s average age for their 11 departure was 26.1 years. This put them roughly in the middle of the table for the average age of the Premier League teams. However, this summer, there was clearly a conscious effort to buy young people.
The permanent signatures they have made so far this window are Dan Ndoye (24), Igor Jesus (24) and Jair Cunha (20) – if they sign Rico Lewis (20) and James McATEE (22), the average age of their signatures this summer will be 22 years old.
In addition, the two older players they brought to this window (excluding the 29 -year -old goalkeeper, Angus Gunn on a free) have two years less than the team average last season.
Although the famous quote from Alan Hansen of “You’s never win anything with the children” did not age well, it always sums up the elevation that many fans feel to count on young players compared to more experienced players, especially when the forest will play in four competitions this season. But although the new Forest recruits are young, they are all experienced and have at least a few football seasons under them where they have become professional players.
This youth transfer strategy will not only serve the forest this season, but long in the future.
