There is no doubt Nuno Espirito Santo’s Nottingham Forest squad has been strengthened as a result of the summer business done.
Nuno wanted the Reds to end the transfer window with a balanced group in place and with options across the pitch. By and large, the Portuguese now has that.
After reservations emerged over his desire to come Forest also tried to get Eddie Nketiah but Oliver Glasner persuaded him towards Crystal Palace.
A number of players were linked with the club as the deadline approached but Forest didn’t manage to get anything over the line in the way of a talisman.
In the aftermath, it’s been claimed that Nuno Espirito Santo advised Evangelos Marinakis that he was happy with his squad when it came to forward options.
Once moves for Gimenez and Nketiah had collapsed, Forest focused their attention on Eintracht Frankfurt talisman, Omar Marmoush.
The 25-year-old is valued at around the £30 million mark and the Bundesliga outfit were keen to recoup a top amount for his services.
Marmoush has been lauded for his ‘blistering pace’ in the past and last season he scored 17 goals and claimed six assists in Germany.
According to Frankfurter Rundschau, the player turned his nose up at the possibility of Forest and is keen to wait for one of the heavyweights of the Premier League.
Essentially that’s why the club stood firm on their valuation as they knew Marmoush wasn’t entirely convinced by the Forest project.
It meant that the Reds went without in their quest to land a striker. Otherwise, it’d been a decent transfer window but that was perhaps the one blemish.
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