Is that true? On a limited look around, Sheff U fans don’t seem to rate him very highly.

I have only noticed positive things, but I haven't really been paying close attention so I'm happy to be corrected.

I'm not convinced that McAtee will suit us. But he played all the U21 games, some as captain I think (?) and was MoTM in the final - so I think it's hard to begrudge a £35m price tag.

From John Percy

Morgan Gibbs-White has not travelled with the #nffc squad to Portugal today - this is due to a private and personal matter completely unrelated to football. MGW is expected to join up with the team later this week.

His missus has some complications with pregnancy.

Official now.

H.W.G.

We close to signing 6+ players yet?

Closer than we were yesterday.

Not quite sure that’s true. Ndoye seems to be the one that’s the closest. And Bologna have not accepted any bids from us.

He also apparently got fouled 20 seconds into their last pre-season friendly and was withdrawn three minutes later. I'd imagine that needs to be assessed quite quickly.

Chronologically speaking it is. And tomorrow we'll be closer still.

I'm sure we won't miss a broken leg.

I asked ChatGPT to summarise our incomings over the last few seasons for some context. It's interesting. We have signed more players later in the window than I thought. So I'll not be a dick and agree with Brid's overly aggressive messaging that I need to chill a bit. Whilst still thinking that we are behind where we should be, again, especially given we are in Europe. But then again we're starting from a higher baseline which is a factor.

Nottingham Forest Summer Signings (2022–2024)

Summer 2022

Lewis O’Brien – July 2022
Harry Toffolo – July 2022
Giulian Biancone – July 2022
Moussa Niakhaté – 6 July 2022
Omar Richards – 10 July 2022
Neco Williams – 11 July 2022
Wayne Hennessey – 15 July 2022
Jesse Lingard – 21 July 2022
Orel Mangala – late July 2022
Emmanuel Dennis – August 2022
Brandon Aguilera – 19 August 2022
Hwang Ui-jo – 26 August 2022
Renan Lodi (loan) – August 2022
Remo Freuler – August 2022
Josh Bowler – 1 September 2022
Willy Boly – 1 September 2022
Serge Aurier – 7 September 2022

Summer 2023

Chris Wood – 14 June 2023
Ola Aina – 22 July 2023
Anthony Elanga – 25 July 2023
Matt Turner – 9 August 2023
Murillo – 31 August 2023
Nicolás Domínguez – 1 September 2023
Callum Hudson-Odoi – 1 September 2023
Odysseas Vlachodimos – 1 September 2023
Ibrahim Sangaré – 1 September 2023
Andrew Omobamidele – 1 September 2023

Summer 2024

Marko Stamenić – 21 June 2024
Eric da Silva Moreira – 25 June 2024
Elliot Anderson – 30 June 2024
Carlos Miguel – 9 July 2024
Nikola Milenković – 18 July 2024
Jota Silva – 1 August 2024
Ramón Sosa – 16 August 2024
David Carmo – 25 August 2024
Morato – 30 August 2024

I think we can all agree 2022 was an anomoly that is unlikely to be repeated. So what that shows me is in 2023, we'd signed two players by the end of July (Wood was just the paperwork turning his loan into a permanent signing); in 2024 we'd signed 5 but only 2 of them went into our first team (Stamenic instantly went on loan and Moreira is halfway between the b and first team squads). We've currently signed two. So we're currently about normal, a bit ahead if we can get one or two more in by the end of next week.

Interesting though that our better signings are the ones made earlier in the window. Obviously a few exceptions.