January Transfer Window 2025

Incredible news really, for the club, and for me personally. I can't recall a forest player bringing me that much joy since Stan / Pearce. I was desperate for him to score after that run at the end yesterday.

Romano reporting it now

The clauses could be interesting, but at least I'm confident we won't be playing with gentleman's agreements.

Watch out for the release clause!!!!!!!

Chicago: Cynical.

Are we expecting any swoopage?

Assuming it's for 4 years after this one, it only adds one year to the length of his deal, so it's primarily about keeping him by paying him the going rate for a highly rated Premier League defender. A huge pay rise probably doesn't also warrant a release clause. It's not like we're going to stop him going when he's ready anyway.

There is some confidence we are getting Wissa. Allegedly

Ornstein sez we've bid £22m for Wissa. "Forest’s proposal is significantly below Brentford’s valuation of the forward"

Given he can play on the left, wonder if that's an indication they are worried about CHO's injury as well as cover for Wood.

Ornstein says they've turned down 22M + add-ons. I don't know if there's any bad blood between the teams after they kept lowballing us for Brennan.

I think there's about 18 months left on his contract so they are probably needing to sell. If we could get him mfor maybe 22 ish that seems a good deal

Their fans think it's 18 months + another year option. Guessing we pay more than them and he's aware of that, so we are trying to unsettle him.

Think that's the way fans, rather than clubs, think. They thought they had a chance to sign Brennan on the cheap and tried it on - all in the game.

True. Johnson was, at the time, a promising Championship player with huge potential but having never played at a higher level. Brentford were a smaller Premier League club testing the water. I'm not sure why they'd have gone in high in those circumstances.

We said no thanks and we both moved on. It would be a bit churlish (although not impossible, obviously) for us to be dicking about over Wissa as some kind of retaliation. Makes no sense if Forest genuinely want to recruit the player to waste the selling club's time with lowball bids.

Their fans do really resent us over the Johnson transfer - not sure why, seems like some story has built up that involves us messing them around, rather than him not wanting to sign for them and them not coming close to our price.

We sold him for £50m, they didn't come within £15m of that. Why would/should we have accepted?

I think the actual answer is that they'd worked out how far short of the PSR limit we were and offered that.

You forgot dominance. Frank is always claiming dominance.

My guess is that the Wissa thing will depend on how much the player wants to move. If he does, it’s just a commercial negotiation between the two clubs to see if they can reach a deal. If he’s happy to stay, Forest are wasting their time.

The fact that we’ve tried (albeit somewhat half-heartedly in the Summer) in two windows suggests that the player’s agent didn’t exactly laugh at us when we asked.