Nottingham Forest battle Steve Cooper to sign winger who qualified for the Champions League Last season

 

Nottingham Forest will be forever indebted to Steve Cooper for the work which he did at the football club during his two-and-a-half years in charge.

The 44-year-old restored Premier League football back to the for the first time in 23 years, taking the club from the bottom of the second tier to the Promised Land in a matter of months.

 

Cooper’s stock rose during the 2022/23 campaign when he managed to keep the club in the top flight against the odds.

The Welshman was sacked in December of last year and replaced by with Cooper taking the Leicester City job earlier this summer.

Now, Cooper looks set to be a big competitor in the transfer market as and Leicester both battle for the same player.

 

in the coming days, with a medical now booked for the 6ft 5in central defender.

It doesn’t appear as though the Reds are finished there though and the links to new

 

Saelemaekers is now on the radar of a number of clubs, with Forest, Leicester and newly-promoted Ipswich Town all keen, according to

Signing him won’t be overly tricky it would seem, with AC Milan willing to sell the player for between £8.5 and £12.5 million.