Nottingham Forest won promotion during the 2021/22 campaign and the players from that successful campaign will go down in City Ground folklore.
Under Steve Cooper, Forest came from the bottom of the Championship to win promotion by beating Huddersfield Town in the play-off final.
A number of star players gave everything during that memorable campaign and Forest have managed to stay in the Premier League since going up.
One man who was a standout performer during that campaign was defender Scott McKenna who Forest signed in 2020 from Aberdeen.
He won the club’s Player of the Year award during that season and was also named as the Man of the Match in the play-off final.
At the end of last season, he was released from his contract after Evangelos Marinakis fell out with the agent of McKenna.
Now, he’s in talks to get himself a new club ahead of the season getting underway.
EFL outfit want Scott McKenna after Nottingham Forest exit
Hull City are the club now being linked with a move to sign McKenna before the season gets underway.
According to Hull Live, the club have identified McKenna – who featured at Euro 2024 – as the man to replace Jacob Greaves who was linked with Forest before signing for Ipswich.
McKenna made 106 appearances for Forest with 25 of those coming in the Premier League for the Reds.
He never really let anyone down and ultimately he was a very popular player among the City Ground fan base who always saw him giving his all.
Last season, he never really became an integral part of Cooper’s plans, however, and spent the second half of the season on loan with FC Copenhagen.
He made 15 appearances for the Danish side, including two in the Champions League but they’ve opted not to sign him permanently.
His performances for Scotland prior to Euro 2024 were considered ‘excellent’ by the media and he will hope to get himself hooked up soon.
McKenna would be a coup for any EFL outfit
The centre-back is left-sided and it’s really surprising that he’s not found a club on a free transfer since leaving Forest.
McKenna was absolutely sound for Forest and he was the type of player who truly understood what it meant to wear the shirt.
At 27-years-old he has bags of time on his side and it’s remarkable that the player is still on the free transfer list given what he achieved at Forest.
McKenna went to Euro 2024 with Scotland and there is a sense that perhaps he deserved to play more than he did.
It will be fascinating to see where McKenna does end up and wherever he goes, Forest fans will undoubtedly wish him all the best.
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