Nottingham Forest are busy reshaping their squad for the 2024/25 campaign and have so far added five players to the ranks.
Marko Stamenic signed for the club but then joined Olympiacos on a season-long loan deal.
After he’d checked in four more arrivals came for Forest in the shape of Eric da Silva Moreira, Elliot Anderson, Carlos Miguel and Nikola Milenkovic.
With more players being sought in the transfer market, there will be a requirement for one or two of the current crop to leave.
Lewis O’Brien does look set to leave the club to join LA Galaxy on loan until December – and others will have to follow him.
Nottingham Forest defender still likely to leave
Given that he’s featured quite heavily during pre-season, it would be easy to think that Nuno Espirito Santo had found room in his squad for Joe Worrall.
However, that doesn’t appear to be the case and The Athletic are claiming that he’s still likely to leave the City Ground this summer.
The club captain hasn’t played in the Premier League since Boxing Day when he came on for the final minute of a 3-1 win over Newcastle.
He spent the final months of the season on loan with Besiktas and helped them with the Turkish Cup at the end of the campaign.
A permanent move there doesn’t look to be on the cards though – whilst a move to Sheffield United appears to have gone cold.
Forest would like to sell Worrall for a fee in the region of £4 million and it’s claimed that the club are still looking to sell him this summer.
Worrall on borrowed time at Forest
In the Championship, Worrall was one of the star performers at the City Ground and he was instrumental as the club won promotion.
It emerged last season, however, that Worrall fell out with Steve Cooper and that seemingly set the tone for his season.
He didn’t feature much on Trentside after those reports emerged and now it looks as though he’s on borrowed time.
Forest have Milenkovic to compete with Willy Boly, Murillo and Andrew Omobamidele at centre-back and that makes Worrall pretty surplus.
Finding a club should have been easier than it’s actually proving for Forest but it seems very likely there will be plenty of interest from the Championship as the window draws to a close.
Worrall has made 226 appearances for Forest but the Hucknall-born player does now seem to have played his last in the Garibaldi.
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