David Johnson

Defensive Midfielder - Nottingham Forest
18 Apr 2032
Sunday
Process

Marked for David Johnson

264 Edition

The Nottingham Forest Sentinel

18 Aug 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

The run at home goes on for Nottingham Forest

23 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from André Onana

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market

Nottingham Forest get their man

The chase for Albion Rrahmani ended with $4.8M changing hands and Crystal Palace out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Market

Nottingham Forest turn down Blackburn Rovers for Andrea Belotti

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

Squad

Gustavo Sá 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

Real improvement from David Johnson at Nottingham Forest

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. David Johnson is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Ebere Eze

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Nottingham Forest

14 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.

Match

Nottingham Forest come up short against Brighton

Brighton left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

Back issues
257 Edition

The Nottingham Forest Sentinel

30 Jun 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Andrea Belotti asks to leave Nottingham Forest

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Only the photograph left for Jayden Powell

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jayden Powell will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Nottingham Forest the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Jean-Clair Todibo 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

Too much change too quickly at Nottingham Forest

8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Market

A long bet from Nottingham Forest on David Johnson

He is 18, and nobody at Nottingham Forest signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Market

A long bet from Nottingham Forest on Radja Castagne

He is 19, and nobody at Nottingham Forest signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

In brief