David Simmons

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Nottingham Forest U18
7 Jun 2028
Wednesday
Process

Marked for David Simmons

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The Nottingham Forest Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Andre Dozzell gets the move he always wanted

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

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.

Market

Burton Albion come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Nottingham Forest did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Ibrahim Sangaré signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ibrahim Sangaré commits to Nottingham Forest for another 4 years.

Squad

Lorenzo Lucca 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Nottingham Forest

4 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Market

One of our own: David Simmons joins the Nottingham Forest first team

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

Market

Nottingham Forest promote Nathan Pearson from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nathan Pearson 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: Nicholas Davis joins the Nottingham Forest first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nicholas Davis 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 The spotlight tightens on Andre Dozzell