Looking at his games for Forest so far and reading comments on a Forest forum he seems every bit as good as the player that won 3x UCL at Real Madrid.

Given the 'youth project' we are trying to build could this be another smart 'Silva' esque signing, experience to add to a young squad and a placeholder until Slonina is ready.

Since we’ve got the young Slonina in the ranks and Kepa on the books still and Mendy with 2 years left, he’d be a nice stop-gap. Only issue is PSG, they seemingly hate us now after Ziyech-gate, Navas’ contract expires summer 2024; not sure how easy it would be to do business with them again.

Despite the understandable focus on bringing in another central midfielder, I too hope they don’t neglect how dire our goalkeeping situation is.

I think we currently have 7 on the books. Outgoings have to come first now surely.

We've bought half the market and still can't make a functioning team or defined style of play. For me further purchases in this environment seem a bit pointless

1 hour ago, WhiteWall said:

I think we currently have 7 on the books. Outgoings have to come first now surely.

We've bought half the market and still can't make a functioning team or defined style of play. For me further purchases in this environment seem a bit pointless

We've got 4 keepers in the first team squad, 5 in the development squad, and another 5 out on loan. Probably why we now have 3 goalkeeper coaches LOL

#balancedsquadbuilding

4 hours ago, WhiteWall said:

I think we currently have 7 on the books. Outgoings have to come first now surely.

We've bought half the market and still can't make a functioning team or defined style of play. For me further purchases in this environment seem a bit pointless

Edou is half way out of the door, Slonina will likely go out on loan and Bettenelli doesn't really matter in the context of finding a new keeper as he'll never compete for #1 spot, he'll either stay as third choice or leave and we'll find another obscure keeper to take that role.

Edited February 19, 20233 yr by Argo

It is crazy to think Forest have a better goalie than we do.

3 hours ago, timetowaste said:

It is crazy to think Forest have a better goalie than we do.

They also have better strikers.

On 2/19/2023 at 3:27 AM, Term_X said:

Since we’ve got the young Slonina in the ranks and Kepa on the books still and Mendy with 2 years left, he’d be a nice stop-gap. Only issue is PSG, they seemingly hate us now after Ziyech-gate, Navas’ contract expires summer 2024; not sure how easy it would be to do business with them again.

Despite the understandable focus on bringing in another central midfielder, I too hope they don’t neglect how dire our goalkeeping situation is.

Moreover, it seems to me, Navas has not low salary expectations and whether they are worth it is not known...

Not a bad idea as well. Short term but still, we have Slonina so it might make sense. He is still an amazing goalkeeper, would be reminiscent of Thiago Silva coming in

On 13/05/2023 at 16:33, NestorGarde said:

Not a bad idea as well. Short term but still, we have Slonina so it might make sense. He is still an amazing goalkeeper, would be reminiscent of Thiago Silva coming in

Yes, I can't argue with that. But he lacks good defenders in front of him.

With the news of Mendy likely leaving, us pulling out for Onana and Maignan not being interested I really hope at the want of a better option we seek a short term deal for this guy.