Matthew Orr

Right Back - Nottingham Forest U20
17 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Matthew Orr

4 Edition

The Nottingham Forest Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Matthew Orr out for 21 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Nottingham Forest will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Willy Boly hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Nottingham Forest can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Callum Hudson-Odoi

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Tottenham watching Dan Ndoye

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Nottingham Forest have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Tempers go at Nottingham Forest

Dani Carvajal was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

No hiding place for Matz Sels

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matz Sels, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

One of those days for Murillo

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.99, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Nikola Milenković falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Nottingham Forest share the spoils with Brighton

A 1‑1 draw with Brighton leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Nottingham Forest Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Nottingham Forest sell Taiwo Awoniyi for $15.3M

Taiwo Awoniyi has left for Villarreal in a $15.3M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

Matthew Orr breaks a bone — 31 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 31 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Nottingham Forest say no — this time

The offer from Manchester City for Igor Jesus was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

A move Íñigo Lekue would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Íñigo Lekue is living that version at Nottingham Forest, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Dani Carvajal in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Nottingham Forest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Nottingham Forest training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Murillo is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Nottingham Forest

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Market

Nottingham Forest promote Jason Hunter from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jason Hunter has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Robert Ross joins the Nottingham Forest first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Robert Ross is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

  • Boardroom The ground is getting bigger
  • The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Íñigo Lekue
2 Edition

The Nottingham Forest Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Matthew Orr breaks a bone — 41 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 41 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Nottingham Forest say no — this time

The offer from Arsenal for Dan Ndoye was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Albert Posiadała gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Albert Posiadała has just signed for Nottingham Forest, and for once the answer mattered.

Market

Murillo wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Nottingham Forest hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Murillo signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Murillo and Nottingham Forest agree another 5 years.

Squad

Morgan Gibbs-White in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Nottingham Forest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

1 Edition

The Nottingham Forest Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Matthew Orr breaks a bone — 50 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 50 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Nottingham Forest turn down Al-Orobah for Chris Wood

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Morgan Gibbs-White wants more than Nottingham Forest are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad

Tempers go at Nottingham Forest

Morgan Gibbs-White was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market

Eyes on Taiwo Awoniyi again

The phone has started ringing about Taiwo Awoniyi again, and this time the name on the line is Villarreal. Nottingham Forest are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Nikola Milenković falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief

  • Squad Chris Wood signs on for more
  • Market Jair wants European nights
  • The terraces Supporters make their feelings known about Igor Jesus