However, if our pre-season signings are anything to go by, we may actually have a pretty decent first season back in the Championship. We've signed a French midfielder by the name of Guy Moussi on a three-year contract from French Second Division side Angers. He was recommended by David Friio, who has been doing a bit of scouting for us across the Channel, and by all accounts he is a very skilful player, and is set to fill the void left by Sammy Clingan. He is a 23-year-old 6ft 2 defensive midfielder, who was very popular at Angers, so he sounds really promising. I've got a feeling he's going to be something of a cult hero at Forest. He has a very memorable name!
I'm very impressed with our signings so far, and if rumours are to believed there are plenty more to come. The Nottingham Evening Post got rather carried away with itself today saying that we had agreed a deal for Carlisle's 20-year-old Joe Garner for £500,000, and that he would be signing today, but Carlisle later made a statement saying that no deal had been made, although it is true that Forest have made a bid for him as Colin Calderwood told the NEP of the Club's interest. If we do manage to sign him, it will be another good bit of business as he scored 14 goals in 30 appearances for Carlisle last season, and when he suffered a cruciate knee injury which sidelined him for the last two months of the season, Carlisle's automatic promotion hopes gradually went up in smoke. So it's probably thanks to Garner being injured that Forest are in the Championship!
Another rumour that seems to pop up every summer now is that Nottingham-born Andy Cole could be on his way to the Reds, twenty years after we told him he wasn't good enough! He spent last season on loan with Burnley and scored a respectable six goals in thirteen starts, so at the age of 36, he can still do a job. My only concern is that Forest are willing to pay silly wages. The Mirror reckons we will pay him £25k a week! That may sound like nothing to teams like Real Madrid who pay obscene amounts over 100k, but Forest can't afford to throw away money like that just so they can parade a big name signing, who will probably only be warming the bench anyway. If they pay him a reasonable wage, then I am all for him joining as he still has one or two years left in him, and perhaps he'll end up getting a coaching role at the City Ground when he retires. He is one of the country's most prolific strikers ever, so if he can teach our centre forwards one or two things and make them better players, then let's get him on board before somebody else does!
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