Nottingham Forest were a team who were setting up a charge at automatic promotion to the Premier League at the start of this season. Their summer business was evidence of that.
You only have to look at the £13.2m deal for Joao Carvalho and loan deals for his fellow Portugal Under-21 colleagues Gil Dias and Diogo Goncalves.
It’s a policy that hasn’t really gone to plan like a similar one did for Wolves last season. Forest sit 9th in the table and are four points shy of the paly-off places.
However, they will be wanting to climb the table and head into the play-off places. To this end, news from Sun reporter Alan Nixon, on Twitter (below), might be of interest to them.
FOREST. Will join Mings race in earnest if Fox signs for WIGAN today. A few want Mings. Not a cheap deal.
— Alan Nixon (@reluctantnicko) January 29, 2019
Tyrone Mings is being courted by the likes of Midlands rivals West Bromwich Albion and Aston Villa. Mings, of course, is currently on the books of Premier League side Bournemouth.
As Nixon mentions, with him being a Premier League player, price is at a premium and his arrival will not be a “cheap deal.” What may gird the loins of Forest fans more is that Nixon states that their side is readying to enter the transfer scramble for the central defender “in earnest.”
Mings really made a name for himself at Ipswich Town, the Tractor Boys bringing him back to league football after his release by Bristol Rovers in 2010. The Suffolk side signed him from non-league Chippenham Town in mid-December 2012, where he’d been since signing from fellow non-leaguers Yate Town.
It was a £10.1m deal that took him to Bournemouth in 2015 and he’s since featured in 23 games for the Cherries. Five of those games have been in this season’s Premier League, where he’s faced teams such as Liverpool and both Manchester sides.
With the closing of the January transfer window less than three days away, Forest fans might want to keep an eye on this one for late developments.
