Transfer Gossip Round Up - 7th January

Well here we are in our second instalment in this window of a roundup of transfer gossip. As previously this is not news and we aren’t trying to make it, but merely commenting on the latest rumours to go round. Again we categorise them as likely, made up, or living in cloud cuckoo land

The Believable

Jordan Rhodes
as we reported last time Rhodes name is still doing the rounds and we are still being linked. That said I still can’t see him coming here rather than a Premiership club. Rather than risk being stuck in this division longer, I’d think he’d stick at Blackburn till summer than evaluate his future before moving to a Premiership club, rather than risk another Championship clubs chances of going up.

Nakhi Wells
And as before Wells is being linked. Apparently the odds on him moving to Forest dropped, which I found staggering, because I had no idea any bookmaker would even be doing any odds on something as fringe interest as this. Remains a good likely target

Kris Boyd

A new name for the list is an old name, in so far as he has played for the club before in 2011. The Scotsman newspaper has linked him with us again, as his contract is expiring in the summer. For me he is an upgrade on Darius Henderson. I can understand that Billy knows his man and might be interested, so it’s possible and it could be cut price due to contact expiries.

Boyd

Matty Fryatt

Another rumour not going away is Matty Fryatt who was linked in loan window before going to Sheffield Wednesday. Fryatt would be available for £500k but any deal might rely on relations remaining good over the Jack Hobbs deal. It’s completely believable. However we may have moved focus elsewhere.

Nicky Maynard

Linked on Sky Sports website with the news he is likely to be allowed to go on loan for rest of season; we are a number of teams being linked with the striker. We’ve been linked before so it makes sense. And a loan deal might be best.

Maynard

The 'I’m Just Going to Link a Player Who “Might” be Available'.

Alexander Buttner
Being linked on the sole premise I’d imagine that United seem extremely keen on another left back as well as Evra, be it Baines or Coentrao. If they do get one the indication is Buttner may go out on loan. This is all conjecture and guesswork, and has absolutely no basis whatsoever. That said. You never know.

Buttner

Danny Ings
Isn’t going to be happening but hasn’t stopped one or two accounts or sites suggesting it’s possible. Ings would be possibly believable, but at a huge cost and likely would go to the Premier League rather than move sideways.

Weekly Forest Transfer Rumours Update

As we career towards the transfer window I thought it'd be good to catch up on some of the crackpot rumours doing the rounds on the net, before looking at the more sensible rumours

Ins


One rumour has linked Kevin Phillips, the veteran striker playing for Blackpool. Phillips is on a one year deal at Blackpool, half way through. Phillips has had a great record and the rumour suggested that Cotterill see's him as the perfect foil for Blackstock. He would also largely be cheap.
Personally I simply can't see it happening. You never do know in football.


Kris Boyd has recently been released by Eskişehirspor in Turkey. Therefore he is of course free. That save for of course for his sizeable wage demands. He was on £40k in Turkey and even if he took a fraction of that we'd be unable to afford such wages, especially in these austere times.

Chris Riggott has also been linked in a valiant attempt to link us with any central defender who happens to be not nailed down, the player just released from Derby is on a free and looking for a deal. He has been linked on a couple of forums, and although it on papers looks good because he had a track record of top football, his career is blighted by injury, and frankly there’s a reason Derby released him.



Outs


Luke Chambers being linked left right and centre. He has a contract expiring, and the club may well seek to cash in on him whilst we can and avoid a Kelvin Wilson situation. Ironically therefore Celtic is one of the clubs being linked with him. I can’t see him going to a club like them, but I could see someone like West Brom being linked.

Chris Gunter and West Brom is a rumour I see also. But I think this is more of a case of people looking at players who could get a good fee and would have moderately high wages.


Matt Derbyshire, undoubtedly one of the bigger earners Paul Taylor referenced when saying new players not performing are on high wages. There are a number of Championship clubs being connected with him, and even a slightly odd rumour linking Blackburn with a move for a player they once had.


More rumours as they appears in the next few days.

As I say though, these are just rumours and may or may not hold very little truth.

Transfer Gossip

The first load of transfer gossip has been circling now we where we will be playing next year. As usual we aren't revealing this as news,but a round up where we discuss possibilities

First up are potential In's

David Norris

The Ipswich midfielder is available for nothing. Having been voted player of the season for the Tractor Boys this season, he is also their captain. It would appear therefore that Davies is accepting that McKenna is becoming a spent force and is looking to get a new midfield general in. Leeds are also interested, and apparently, Stoke, Wigan and Bolton. Considering these teams are being linked with every Championship teams midfielders, including Moussi, that may not be accurate. Norris is 30, and would be looking for his last big contract of his career.


Kris Boyd

Now his loan is up,there are rumours Billy would like to make this a permanent deal. For one, Blackstock won't be back for awhile yet. Boyd scored a few vital goals in getting Forest over the line for the play offs. However, he isn't cheap. He is on big wages at Boro and we would have to at least offer nearly as much to bring him here permanently. I can't see Boyd volunteering up a 50% pay reduction which would be the minimum to bring him here. Shame,I was impressed with the big guy in the last few weeks. Let's hope he values football ahead of wages.


Billy Jones

I've been aware of him fr a while, what with a former housemate being a Crewe fan,he used to wax lyrical about him. He is available for a free after Prestons relegation and would be a very hand utility player. Like a better version of Perch, he can play in defence or midfield. His name has been mentioned a lot and it seems very likely we are in for him. Like Norris above he was his clubs player of the season, and is also attracting attention from elsewhere. He captained the team in the last game of the season.

There are also vague rumours surrounding Scott Loach signing, which would seem to depend on Camp leaving.


Now for potential outs

Joel Lynch

Today Sky have linked the backup defender to Millwall and Bristol City. As he barely featured at times last year, either through injury or being down the pecking order,it may be that the Reds want to move on the 23 year old after a few years at the club without much impact. Since joining from Brighton he has only ever been a back up, and it might be time to let him leave.


Nathan Tyson

As we all know he is out of contract. And Derby are heavily linked. Tyson is injury prone, has made terrible misses and is now 29 years old.It is probably time we went our separate ways. Tyson often spoke of being settled here and a move to Derby would make things easy for him to not move his young family.That said, Derby fans remember Flaggate and might not be the most welcoming to the prospect of a vilified figure joining them.


Robert Earnshaw

Leicester were heavily linked with Earnie last week, and that might be a viable option. Earnie is on a sizeable chunk of cash a week and Leicester are flush wit cash, where as we have told the Welshman tat if he wants to stay he has to take a big pay cut. Earnie has been frustrating at times. He obviously has talent, and a natural finisher, but there are times it seems like he tries to score audacious goals and fail rather than make a simple pass at times. Might be time to let him go,unless he does sign a cheaper deal. He did say the other day on Twitter, time to make some decisions about his future.

Also out of contract, Julian Bennett, Paul Smith and Dele Adebola are all likely to be released, with little news on where to. Guy Moussi is also out of contract, with a number of clubs being linked,in England and France,however there is increasing gossip that Moussi may sign a new deal and stay on.

There is also unfounded gossip about Camp, Chambers and McGugan leaving.These are merely forum based rumours with little or no substance in them.

Kris Boyd - April Player of the Month

Kris Boyd has been voted by your the Forest 24-7 readers as player of the month for April. It comes after Boyd weighed in with some vital goals in Forests successful push for the play offs.

The big Scot won with 52% of the vote, Luke Chambers came second with 17% and Chris Cohen 3rd with 11%

Thank you all for voting, and soon we will have the player of the season poll up (Once the play offs conclude)

Kris Boyd Signs

Nottingham Forest have today made a signing!!! Most didn't see it coming.

Kris Boyd has signed on loan from Middlesbrough, with Paul Smith going in the other direction as part of the deal. Smith, although ample cover for Camp did spend the first portion of the season away from the side completely,so won't be a complete loss. Boro have goalkeeper problems with injuries to Steele and Coyne.

Boyd is most famous for his time at Rangers, and following his move to Middlesbrough with half of the rest of Scottish professional footballers, has fallen out of favour with Tony Mowbray,after being signed by former manager Gordon Strachan.

Boyd was prolific in Scotland, scoring 101 goals in 143 appearances. He will hope to reignite this form with Forest,who have been lacklustre in front of goal in recent times. The move is somewhat of a gamble, as we taking on a large part if not all of his ample £30k a week wages. An added reason Boro wanted to shift him on.

Boyd may well go straight into the squad if not the team for tonights match with Sheffield United.