The Nottingham Forest Sentinel
Squad23 Aug 2027
Nicolás Domínguez damages knee ligaments — 80 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 80 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Chris Wood out for 54 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.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Medical ends the Karl Darlow deal
Everything was agreed with Manchester United and then the doctor spoke. Nottingham Forest have walked away from a signing on the advice of somebody who never saw him play, which is how it is supposed to work.
Market23 Aug 2027
Southampton watching Nikola Milenković
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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Nottingham Forest
Morgan Gibbs-White and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A late step up for Murillo
At 25 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Nottingham Forest
5 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.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
No hiding place for Morgan Gibbs-White
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Morgan Gibbs-White, and the manager let it.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Alexander Watson joins the Nottingham Forest first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alexander Watson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Nottingham Forest promote Jack Moore from within
- Market Nottingham Forest promote Andrew Murray from within
- Player ratings One of those days for Rafael Leão