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Participant tells Nottingham Forest board he desires to go away in January with price ticket set

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Nottingham Forest’s January rumours already stretch from Selhurst Park to Rio, with a striker linked at one finish and a membership attempting to make a mortgage everlasting on the different.

Nottingham Forest’s January plans stretch from Selhurst Park to Rio

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Beating Man Metropolis lifted the temper on the Metropolis Floor, and it additionally modified how urgent a type of offers seems to be.

Stories recommend Forest are ready to compete with Man United for Crystal Palace striker Jean-Philippe Mateta in January, and the Frenchman has hit double figures within the league three seasons working, so there’s a case for including him even after Liam Delap’s double towards Metropolis.

What Saturday’s win provides Forest is a bit more respiration house to determine whether or not one other centre ahead is price the fee in January.

In the meantime, on the exit entrance, Vasco da Gama are additional alongside of their push for Cuiabano.

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Cuiabano in motion for Botafogo.

Lucas Pedrosa reported a bid of round £6m final week for the left-back, who’s already on mortgage in Rio and desires to remain. Globo says Vasco are attempting to purchase him for lower than the £8.5m choice in that deal.

That leaves the Brazilian membership with one value to kind out with Forest, they usually may quickly have one more reason to get in contact.

John Victor makes his place clear to Forest

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John Victor has made it clear to Forest’s board that he desires a transfer when the January window opens, in accordance with ESPN’s Bruno Andrade.

The goalkeeper hasn’t performed this season, and Forest are reportedly open to promoting for at the very least £4m, giving any membership seeking to deliver him again to Brazil a determine to work with.

Forest signed him from Botafogo in August 2025 on a deal working to 2028, after he helped the Rio membership win the Brazilian league and Copa Libertadores.

John Victor’s all-time Forest stats

Competitors

Apps

Conceded

Clear sheets

Premier League

5

8

1

Europa League

3

1

2

League Cup

1

3

0

Whole

9

12

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He’s made 9 aggressive appearances for Forest, the final of them in January’s defeat at Aston Villa, the place a knee harm ended his season.

Vasco are already taking a look at him, with RTI Esporte, by way of Sport Witness, reporting final week that they’d opened talks along with his representatives and had the backing of recent president Marcos Lamacchia to discover a transfer.

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A deal for Victor would nonetheless want Forest’s approval, no matter occurs with Vasco’s try to purchase Cuiabano.

Forest have a call to make behind Matz Sels

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Saturday’s staff sheet tells you why Victor is wanting elsewhere.

Matz Sels began towards Metropolis and Victor watched from the bench, which has been his place all season, with Sels even conserving maintain of the shirt within the Carabao Cup defeat to Leeds.

There’s an FA Cup tie to come back in January, however a recreation right here or there gained’t give Victor the run he’s in search of.

He’s 30 and has already performed for main trophies in Brazil, so it is smart that he’d wish to get again to a membership the place he can play each week.

Forest need to determine what meaning for his or her goalkeeping cowl.

Steven Benda arrived in the summertime after Stefan Ortega and Angus Gunn left, and the membership have already seen how rapidly the numbers can skinny out.

If Glasner trusts Benda to step in, there’s room to speak about letting Victor go. The payment is barely half the query for Forest; the opposite half is whether or not they’ll have sufficient cowl the subsequent time Sels can’t play.