The Nottingham Forest Sentinel
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Nottingham Forest promote Benjamin Clarke from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Benjamin Clarke 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Edward Shaw steps up from the Nottingham Forest academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Edward Shaw has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market17 Aug 2026
Jacob Hunter steps up from the Nottingham Forest academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jacob Hunter has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: John Roberts joins the Nottingham Forest first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. John Roberts is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Nicolás Domínguez 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The ground is getting bigger
The plans are signed off at a capacity of 41893. Decisions like this are judged twenty years later, by people who were not in the room when they were taken.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Omar Richards still has not settled
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Nottingham Forest would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
In brief
- The terraces The stands have heard the Murillo talk too
- Squad Stefan Ortega has seen what the next man earns