The Nottingham Forest Sentinel
Squad23 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Mateus Mané at Nottingham Forest
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Mateus Mané is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match21 Aug 2027
The wait goes on for Nottingham Forest
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Callum Hudson-Odoi runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad23 Aug 2027
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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Dan Ndoye stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Dan Ndoye and Nottingham Forest agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A late step up for James McAtee
At 24 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.
Match21 Aug 2027
Nottingham Forest come up short against Aston Villa
Aston Villa left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Adam Graham joins the Nottingham Forest first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Adam Graham 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 Luke Fisher from within
- Market One of our own: Henry King joins the Nottingham Forest first team
- Market Simon Murphy steps up from the Nottingham Forest academy