02 Jun 2026 10:57:19
GKs
We have a 1st choice in Sels
Ortega off to Germany
Gunn (off to get 1st team footy)
Victor (competent back up?)
CBs
Bindon
Murillo
Milenkovic
Morato
Abbott
Cuhna
Boly (becomes a 1st team coach?)
(Savona - I'm a right back, honest Guvnor)
Also that other lad who was out on loan.
FBs
Williams (LB/RB)
Aina (RB/LB)
Netz (LB)
Savona (RB)
MF
Yates
Sangare
Ando
Dominguez
AM
MGW
McAtee
Wingers
Ndoye (more to come?)
Bakwa (I think he'll do better 2nd season)
CHO (good on his day but average most of the time)
Hutch (decent)
Strikers
Lucca (gone)
Wood (won't play enough games)
Taiwo (decent but not 1st choice if we are going for Europe)
Jesus (good link up but better as supporting striker false 10 type thing)
Honestly:
One senior keeper for backup to Sels.
One young keeper as 3rd choice.
FB
One new FB.
CB: We are fine and have too many.
MF
One if Ando leaves.
AM
Keep. McAtee will improve this season and he wants to leave for 1st team lend him out and replace. If we sold not we'd get bugger all so needs to play and increase value.
Wing
Look for upgrades but don't change all four.
Striker
We need another main striker. Wood won't play enough, Taiwo and Jesus are decent but to qualify for Europe we need more goals.
Overloaded.
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01 Jun 2026 23:39:57
I'm back as I've realised that I shouldn't let people like DTP and Larry ruin my overall enjoyment of this site.
They are the minority, intent on winding every other poster up on here.
Over the years I have come to realise that the vast majority of the posters on this site are of genuinely great personality and loyal supporters of our great Club. OK, we may disagree at times - but overall we are a happy, yet disfunctional, family! These 2 people alone turn this site venomous. I even doubt whether they support Forest.
02 Jun 2026 04:55:48
Oh, I support Forest Lego, and not from Cornwall because they were the team winning things when I was a school child. But, because I'm Nottingham born & bred, thats my local team.
That's not winding people up, it's a fact that Essex empties when the Manchester clubs play at home & if people supported the local team, football's riches would be more evenly distributed.
02 Jun 2026 05:57:39
Welcome back, mate.
02 Jun 2026 00:10:02
Welcome back mate, let me know if anyone is p*****g you off. I can hold em still and you can show them what a wheelchair rugby player can do to a tackle pad or just run em over.♿🏉🌳
02 Jun 2026 08:40:38
Couldn't agree more, Larry
I'm still a season card holder, so Lego you assume wrongly.
Why don't you say something about Forest for a change.
02 Jun 2026 11:32:51
Nobody can deny your loyalty, dtp, & the amount of revenue you invest in your team each season. 👏👏
02 Jun 2026 10:51:32
They weren't winning duck all when i was at school Balloons, quite the opposite. Half my family is from in and around Nottingham, my Grandad was Forest through and through, took me to my first game and hooked me for life.
The other half of my family are egg chasing neanderthals.
So i ask this gentleman, if you took your grandson to a game and they become reds, would you question his loyalty because he doesn't live in Nottingham❓🤔🌳
02 Jun 2026 12:41:29
It's small club/time thinking to want every Forest fan to come from Nottingham. To grow the club, you need more interest and revenue from further afield.
02 Jun 2026 13:05:37
Totally agree, Stevie, mate...
02 Jun 2026 13:47:42
You would have to, Rogie, ironically. 🤣🤣
02 Jun 2026 15:18:33
I was only putting Lego right on being a season card holder, blondie. 😁😂
02 Jun 2026 17:46:59
DTP, you simply can't help yourself, can you? At least I've never posted a picture of my garden on here....
02 Jun 2026 17:53:09
You need to have a longer sabbatical, Lego. I thought you were coming back to talk football & banter. You're not quite ready yet, mate.
02 Jun 2026 18:02:11
You could well be right, Larry.
02 Jun 2026 18:05:33
You do realise that this is currently bordering on bullying? Bullying others off the site is pathetic and yet it goes on in plain site. 🌳
02 Jun 2026 18:54:32
I don't actually give two flying f***s, whatever you lot think. I'm a proud Geordie, and if you lot ask anyone I know, I live Forest, not going into it, as I've posted it before. FTID only thing keeping me half sane atm. Gets rid of my frustrations in life, but my boils my pi$$.
01 Jun 2026
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01 Jun 2026 17:06:31
🤣🤣🤣 Brilliant winter.
01 Jun 2026 20:23:52
I'll never forgive him for making me cry in 96. 😭
01 Jun 2026 07:39:14
{Ed's Note - EHL2020 has posted a new article entitled, Rangers and the Dutch-Belgian Squad Blueprint
01 Jun 2026 13:08:28
Just reading an interesting article on the BBC about Icon World Cup Kits....
Mine has to be the Dutch Kit 74, Nigeria's 2002 kit, and Brazil's 82 kit.
01 Jun 2026 14:17:25
Mine was the 94 German kit. Kuntz.
01 Jun 2026 14:40:51
I'd have to go with Cameroon 1994 home green with black trim kit. 🌳
01 Jun 2026 16:10:12
I'd go for the ref. All black. Revolutionary. 😋
01 Jun 2026 17:35:10
Not a kit but the Romanian squads bleached hair in 94 and yes back then I copied it. 🙄 🌳
01 Jun 2026 21:15:52
Hagi was superb.
01 Jun 2026 21:59:30
I remember Jimmy Hill claimed "They could see each other better".
🙈🙈🙈
01 Jun 2026 23:06:58
Was it Motty on the commentary? All I remember is that it was hilarious, 'Petrov into errrr...' 🤣, but yeah, Hagi and his Bulgarian mate Stoichkov, both playing for Barca, now they were proper players. 🌳
02 Jun 2026 05:59:46
Hagi scored a phenomenal goal at that World Cup.
31 May 2026 21:44:36
Obviously it's all a bit quiet atm. Opinions on what positions we need an upgrade and who would ideally fill said positions?
01 Jun 2026 05:34:18
Needs a fire sale, mate.
01 Jun 2026 10:42:44
Has there been a fire then, Larry? Or have you just caught up with the news from 1968, mate.
There will certainly be a fire sale at Leicester City now they are in League 1. Might be worth a rummage, certainly in their Academy, possibly one or two first teamers.
Every crock of 💩 might have a diamond in there somewhere?
Meanwhile, I will have a think about MV's interesting question. Just nipping out to get some Turkish lira for my hols....
01 Jun 2026 11:27:31
Jeremy Monga is definitely worth a look from their academy. 🌳
01 Jun 2026 13:39:35
I don't know much about Monga, RRH. Was he in "Blazing Saddles" opposite Mel Brookes and Gene Wilder? 😂😂😂
01 Jun 2026 14:34:06
That's terrible, Stokey, but I suppose "Monga only pawn in game of life." 🌳
01 Jun 2026 16:35:06
I think it might be time for a new keeper. I love Sels, but he is in his mid-thirties now, and is out of contract next summer. I don't think Big John is good enough to take over from him, so time for our recruitment to go and find a diamond from under the radar, just like Sels was.
01 Jun 2026 17:26:56
I think he's still a class act, mate.
Just my opinion.
01 Jun 2026 17:38:33
MV mate, having pondered your excellent question, I’d break it down into the following points.
Firstly, it all depends on the outgoings, particularly of our "big guns" Murillo, MGW and Ando (and possibly players who have done well this season such as Sels, Williams and Sanghere). Also, as to how much we get in the coffers for quality replacements if required.
Secondly, VP has indicated he doesn’t want a glut of new players to deal with, and is basically happy with his squad.
Thirdly, before the start of the new season VP will have to assess the on loan players and make a judgement (Jota Silva, and the lesser spotted Cubiano and Omar Richards and, of course, Kalimuendo plus the youngsters out with other clubs).
Fourthly, get rid of the dead wood (Lucca, Victor, Boly for example).
Fifthly, by departments...
Goalkeepers... Sels, Ortega and Gunn. The first two are 34 and 33, but goalkeepers go on for longer than outfield players and are often at their best as they age. All 3 have done well this season.
Full backs... Williams and Aina top class, Luca Netz looked comfortable in the Prem.
Beyond these, we have to have cover unless VP thinks De Morera, Omar or Cubiano are up to it. It’s handy that Williams and Aina can play both sides. We struggled with playing centre backs out wide (Cunha, Abbott, Savonha, Morato). It’s a specialist position.
Central defenders we are well covered. Murillo, Malenkovic, Savona, Morato, Cunha, Abbott.
Holding midfielders ok also, Sanghere and Ando, Dominquez and Yates.
Attacking midfielders a bit light, especially if MGW goes. Jesus and McAtee need assessing in that role pre season. But, like strikers, they are gold dust.
Wingers CHO and Hutch were doing well, Bakwa has something and Ndoye needs a good World Cup. Possible reinforcements needed here.
Strikers Wood and Taiwo. Both did well towards the end of the season, but it showed how much we missed a fully fit pair and Jesus was outgunned and lightweight at spearhead. I’d be looking at splashing the cash in this area as a priority.
It’s going to be an interesting summer. A thousand pardons if I’ve missed anyone out.
01 Jun 2026 18:36:46
I thought Murillo had accepted a new 3-year contract?
01 Jun 2026 20:13:33
He has BSE, but that might just be a guarantee to increase his transfer value, mate.
Another point I'd make is that we have young Carmo and Tyler Bindon coming back from loans. I thought they looked good prospects pre season! We are truly well stocked with ball playing centre backs if Murillo goes.
01 Jun 2026 20:42:25
We could do with a proper right back to cover Aina. Savona should be back soonish, but he's not a full back, although talented. Then I would concentrate on a couple of decent forwards, one centre and one inside.
With Savona in mind, we'd have like seven centre backs on the books, and add to that Boly if he's still at the club after the summer. I'd sell maybe two at least, keeping Murillo and the Serbinater one hundred percent.
Sels is a class act; he has to stay, then I'd look for an up and coming keeper from the football league, preferably a young English lad twenty three and under. Hopefully he can learn from big Matty.
Bakwa and Ndoye I would put on notice, one stays, one goes, impress preseason or go. Hutchinson and CHO I'd keep. Then look to bring in a proper pacy inside forward who can give full backs nightmares.
I'm guessing that Ando will leave, banking us a hundred plus million. He will no doubt be hard to replace, but maybe a combination of Yates, Sangare and MGW in midfield could make up for the loss.
I'm not sure if Woody will ever get back to the way he was before injury. Lucca, thank God, will go. We could really do with getting hold of another unit with pace. Taiwo is the man, but I'm not sure he can bank twenty odd goals a season. He would be perfect backup for someone like Mateta who no doubt will be on big wages with a rather large transfer fee.
So to sum up, stop loaning players to Rio and Olympiacos, sell all the fringe players, bank as much as possible and keep Murillo and MGW.
I'm tired of typing now and beginning to ramble because I can't remember where I started. COYR. 🌳
01 Jun 2026 21:18:19
I'm pretty certain Boly will be gone, RRH. He's out of contract, 35 years old and is carrying niggly injuries. Good servant to the club though and apparently one of the "mentor" senior pros to the youngsters.
Talking of goalkeepers carrying on into their mid thirties and beyond. Remember Kaylor Navas, the Costa Rican? He played for us under SC, I think, in 2023 as cover for Dean Henderson, aged 36, and was absolutely superb!
Loads of examples going back to Lev Yashin, the Russian, playing at top level into his 40s.
I'd definitely be keeping Sels (unless his form drops off a cliff), and also try and persuade Ortega not to go back to Germany.
I don't know how we've come to have such a preponderance of centre backs?
01 Jun 2026 22:01:46
Good points on the keepers' longevity, mate.
01 Jun 2026 23:11:45
I'm sure Nevas is still going, mate, just checking... Now 39 and playing for Pumas UNAM in the Costa Rican Premier. I've tried signing him as back up a few times on Footy Manager, but I guess it's his hometown club because he'll never leave. 🌳
31 May 2026 18:29:28
Ok ED001, fans the grassroots of football, etc etc. You know I ply this to the premiership as a whole. Time and time again, yet shot down for the greed. I know you obviously didn't like slot, but I'm asking you honestly sir. What is your format on the game as it stands, I keep saying it was covid and seeing bless em, towns etc closing down, yet players bragging their cars etc.
May look nothing to outsiders, looking in. But my I know how much hurt it brings to communities etc. That faith. And togetherness. Just a thought?
{Ed001's Note - it is up to the fans to show their dissatisfaction by going to watch grassroots football instead. Nothing will change while the grounds are full.}
31 May 2026 19:05:47
Thanks for reply. 👍
{Ed001's Note - very welcome mate. I have to admit, I enjoy the local footie here more than the Prem lately. It is such a dreadful watch at the moment. And I can go to the games here for peanuts and have the club owner buy me coffees and chocolates as a thank you for being a regular.}
31 May 2026 21:01:27
You know me, Bowie. I love a non league match, and all you get from it. Honesty being the main word.
Love it. If Forest are away, a midweek match, or if we have a free weekend, I will be at a local ish non league game. You can't beat it for value.
31 May 2026 22:30:06
I know you do, Gazz. Proud of ya. 👍 I watch my son a lot. He plays in the Northern Alliance Premier for Hazelrigg. They do ok, mate, always a great atmosphere and a cup of Bovril. Love it. And real challenges.
01 Jun 2026 05:33:04
Bowie, it was a game invented by the working man. For the working man. Then enter Sky & the money mad brigade. 💥💥 All gone. 34 yrs consecutive season tickets holder & 2 Euro Finals, home & away every week with my dad.
I wouldn't go now if I had free tickets. 🎼🎶 Backwards & Sideways everywhere we go, everywhere we go. 🎶 Unwatchable boring crap 90% of the time. Entertainment as we knew it gone forever.
01 Jun 2026 06:21:46
Have to agree with you, Larry. My brother and I were talking about this over the weekend, no Souness's, Robson's, Burnsy's, McGrath's, etc...
These were tough, tough men.
Can you imagine any of them going to Cloughie, Paisley, and Big Ron, downing tools just because they want out after signing a hugely lucrative deal?
They'd be banished into the Ryman League, at best (no disrespect lads), until they toed the line.
Also, the squealing when they are brushed anywhere near their precious faces?
(Pearce touches on it during his interview with Jeff Stelling. Check it out, btw)
Also imagine Shilton, Jennings, or Clem falling down feigning injury?
I can't name one maverick/character in our so-called game anymore, just image conscious robots.
01 Jun 2026 09:03:00
Couldn't agree more, Rogie. Where are the Frank Worthington, Stan Bowles, Paul Gascoigne characters these days? Pure entertainment. Can't name one similar in the present day.
01 Jun 2026 09:29:31
Maybe Jack Grealish, nice lad, however, that's a stretch... "Worthy's" goal, when he fooled the whole back line with a couple of "Keepy Uppies", he turned and drilled it into the bottom corner. Can't remember who the unfortunate team was!!.
🤣🤣🤣
01 Jun 2026 09:54:26
Balloons, all rose-tinted glasses. Worthington, Bowles, Marsh, and co were crap. They couldn't get into an England team that couldn't qualify for World Cups. Bowles came here into a proper team, and couldn't hack it; he walked out on the chance to play in a European Cup final. A complete fraud and bottler. Worthington's biggest clubs were Bolton/Leicester, which tells you everything.
They were unprofessional, almost certainly unfit. They wouldn't survive in this modern game. Gascoigne was a similar type, all show, achieved nothing. A few flicks and tricks don't make a top player. You can list more people rave about from that era: Hudson, Currie. Hudson moved from Chelsea to Stoke, not Madrid or Barcelona. They were ridiculously romanticised into 'legends'.
01 Jun 2026 10:45:37
I remember that Stevie... I often wondered where he ended up that night.
01 Jun 2026 11:08:12
Rogie, he was a coward who knew he was out of his depth in a proper team, where work ethic was necessary, and responsibility needed to be taken, and, all of a sudden, he was surrounded by top players, not a big fish in a small pond anymore.
01 Jun 2026 11:20:09
I remember the radio commentary by the late great Peter Jones... He was reading out the Forest lineup that night.
"And Stan Bowles, as we all know, is elsewhere."
I actually had the LP version of that commentary, God knows what it would have been worth now. 🙄
01 Jun 2026 14:22:58
Some very interesting and great discussion from ya reds. Love it. 👍
01 Jun 2026 14:43:57
Spot on balloons btw, brilliant. 👍
01 Jun 2026 15:13:26
Rogie, Peter Jones was a proper commentator. 😊 I always remember when the FA Cup was a big thing, and Monday lunchtime the draw was made. They always used to go over to Peter Jones in the anti room (whatever that was) at FA headquarters, then some posh blokes saying "The next business on the agenda is the draw for the FA Cup 3rd round," and the anticipation when you were young, listening to it, waiting for Forest to be drawn out.
Now we have some clowns on tv, giggling and laughing their way through it, totally cheapens a great competition.
01 Jun 2026 16:17:40
Typical of you stevie. I never said they were brilliant (although Gascoigne was) it was pure entertainment, what it was supposed to be
01 Jun 2026 17:34:38
I remember Jones would say "There's been a goal at the City Ground!!!"
😲😲😲
01 Jun 2026 18:58:31
Balloons, yeah, typical of me, how dare I talk facts instead of fantasy.
01 Jun 2026 19:31:39
Balloons, the only places Gascoigne was rated were England/Scotland; the only place he had success was in a poor Scottish league. He was wildly overrated, scored the odd great goal, but was a liability because of his temperament and lack of brain power. Cheating b******; he should have been sent off in the cup final.
01 Jun 2026 21:20:52
He was going round that pitch like something possessed. That assault on Garry Parker was a straight red.
01 Jun 2026 21:27:51
One our best ever. Apart from that game obviously. Naturally gifted. As for brain power, was i actually missing something? Some of the balls he played. Free kicks etc etc. F kn ignorance stevie mate. My opinion.
01 Jun 2026 22:02:13
I didn't read anything in Balloons' comments saying he was a great player. Stevie, he said he was an entertainer on the pitch. That's mainly what people remember. Haaland, great player in 30 years' time? Do you think people will talk about him like they do about Gazza now? No, apart from some Man City fans.
02 Jun 2026 00:42:39
Skegs Balloons is a big boy. He doesn't need you to run to his aid every time someone disagrees with him. On your point about Gascoigne and Haaland, well, Haaland will just look at his vast trophy cabinet; Gascoigne not so much.
Bowie, mate, Bobby Robson didn't call him 'daft as a brush' because he was a member of Mensa; his lifestyle and actions off the pitch prove that. We'll agree to differ, mate.
02 Jun 2026 09:55:30
Fair enough, Stevie. 👍 He was also known to be one of the hardest workers in training. He loved it.
31 May 2026 17:45:21
Why doesn't the transfer window open when the last game of the season is played?
31 May 2026 18:06:44
That's because playschool is finished, cyclist. If I were you, I'd ask the square window, bud. 👍
31 May 2026 14:57:48
I didn't watch the match but I hear poor old Gabrielle missing that penalty.
She should have taken that eye patch off.
31 May 2026 16:30:19
Brilliant mate.
🤣🤣🤣
31 May 2026 12:28:06.
No real transfer news until the window opens June 15th. So boring now. Press speculation repetitive. Yawn.
31 May 2026 14:53:45
Not so sure about Delap now, mate...
Even if he was up for sale he hasn't exactly pulled up any "Trees". 🙈
31 May 2026 15:59:59
Rogie Delap is a paceless Donkey mate,
31 May 2026 16:31:05
Better off with "Rory" Bremner !!!
31 May 2026 17:40:32
We got Tyler Bindon back.
Should we give him a shot?
31 May 2026 10:40:07.
4 signings Forest imo should try and sign from the relegated clubs.
Zian Flemming from Burnley.
Mane from Wolves.
Fernandez from West Ham.
Summerville from West Ham.
Then Hayden Hackney from Boro and finally Liam Delap. Those two to replace Wood and Anderson. Job done then imo.
31 May 2026 23:56:09
Munmad, just my opinion. Delap Flemming not good enough. Fernandes and Summerville will get offers from 1of the cartel 5, or Spurs. Hackney I like, but it's going to be difficult. Other clubs can offer European football.
It's going to be interesting. I think you will find we will be looking around Europe and Brazil. I think we need some proven Premier players, but I can see the club's difficulty, and they come at a premium cost.
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