How Viktor Gyokeres feels about joining Nottingham Forest as transfer approach is made
Nottingham Forest are planning a major swoop to try and sign Sporting CP star Viktor Gyokeres should Champions League football be secure.
Yes, you did read that right…
Evangelos Marinakis wanted a striker in January. However, players like Yoane Wissa and Matheus Cunha proved difficult to sign at such a pivotal point in the campaign.
Now, it would appear that Forest will shop away from Tesco and Asda, choosing instead to start purchasing in Waitrose should Champions League football be secured over the next nine games.
Last summer, Santiago Gimenez rejected Forest and now it would appear that another high-profile centre-forward will be targeted at the end of this season.
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Nottingham Forest make contact to sign Viktor Gyokeres
According to Football Transfers, Forest have already made contact with the representatives of the sensational goalscorer ahead of the summer.
The Reds won’t be alone in this race. Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United have all been linked with the 26-year-old previously.
It’s not a surprise to see some of the world’s biggest clubs eyeing Gyokeres given his astonishing scoring record since swapping Coventry for Lisbon.
In 2024/25 he’s already bagged 40 goals in all competitions, with six of those strikes coming in the Champions League – including a hat-trick against Manchester City.
Gyokeres has made 91 appearances for Sporting CP and with 81 goals from those outings, he’s going to be hot property this summer.
How much Gyokeres could cost Forest
It’s claimed in the article that the Swedish performer could cost the Reds around £48 million with Sporting CP wanting top whack for one of Europe’s best.
The man with 15 goals from 26 Sweden caps will be aiming to play alongside Anthony Elanga on international duty this week and perhaps the Forest man can get in his ear.
Forest will have a bounty of cash to spend if Champions League football is secured and a new – high-quality – talisman will definitely be a priority.
Furthermore – and perhaps the most intriguing nugget from the article – it’s claimed that Gyokeres has already been intrigued by the prospect of Forest given a brilliant 2024/25 campaign.
This addition would be a sensational signing for the Reds and would see the club land a marquee centre-forward ahead of next season’s European campaign.
Callum Hudson-Odoi has work to do to earn an England call-up as Thomas Tuchel once humiliated him at Chelsea
Callum Hudson-Odoi’s form at Nottingham Forest has brought him back into the national conversation, but his history with Thomas Tuchel makes an England call-up seem unlikely.
Hudson-Odoi cost Forest just £3m in what was a remarkable piece of business by Evangelos Marinakis, considering the output he has produced at the City Ground.
The former Chelsea man has been the man for the big occasion for Nuno Espirito Santo, scoring the winner at Anfield against Liverpool before Hudson-Odoi fired home the only goal against Manchester City.
This importance led to Forest fans wanting Hudson-Odoi to receive an England call-up but this has yet to materialise, with the 24-year-old’s last senior international appearance coming in 2019.
If Hudson-Odoi can keep up his impressive displays for the Reds, you’d like to think that he could fight his way back into Tuchel’s Three Lions plans. However, the German coach’s previous management of the wide player suggests that it might not be as simple.
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Thomas Tuchel once hooked Callum Hudson-Odoi off for Chelsea, 31 minutes after subbing him on
Forest fans aimed a dig at Tuchel for his decision not to call up Morgan Gibbs-White to his first England squad, a decision he then reversed. No such reversal has been made for Hudson-Odoi, though, who has been on the end of brutal Tuchel decisions in the past.
During the 2020/21 Premier League season, Hudson-Odoi was substituted on at halftime as Chelsea trailed Southampton. However, just 31 minutes later, Tuchel hooked the winger back off in a sign of clear frustration over his display.
Speaking after the game with TNT Sports, Tuchel said: “We brought in Hudson but with Hudson, I was not happy with the energy and with the attitude of the pressing so we decided to take him off again because we demand a lot, we demand 100 per cent and I had the feeling that he was not right in this shape where he can help us.
