Ryan Yates

Defensive Midfielder - Nottingham Forest
11 Oct 2026
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9 Edition

The Nottingham Forest Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Igor Jesus 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.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Matz Sels

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.

Match

The wait goes on for Nottingham Forest

6 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.

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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Nottingham Forest against Manchester United

0‑2 to Manchester United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

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.

Squad

Ola Aina gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The terraces

The spotlight tightens on Matz Sels

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

Player ratings

Murillo leaves them behind him

Shots: 4. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

In brief

Back issues
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The Nottingham Forest Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

4 matches without a win for Nottingham Forest

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Nottingham Forest are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Lorenzo Lucca 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

Igor Jesus gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Words at Nottingham Forest training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikola Milenković is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Loan watch

Scott Hamilton wants to come home

“I did not go to Arsenal to sit and watch. I want to come back to Nottingham Forest and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.

Squad

5 new faces, and Nottingham Forest are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Match

Nottingham Forest and Tottenham take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Player ratings

Morgan Gibbs-White runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Igor Jesus keeps on missing

Shots: 6, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

In brief