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If you take a look at the current makeup of Nottingham Forest’s squad, you can see there’s a clear disparity at each end of the pitch.
They only have three out-and-out centre-forwards, and let’s face it having spent long parts of the summer essentially being told that he doesn’t have a future, you can remove Zach Clough from that list.
That leaves them really with just two. Whilst they do have Rafa Mir also as an option, he hasn’t exactly set the world alight when he has been allowed, claiming just one assist and failing to score. To cut a long story short, there’s not a lot of viable options when it comes to playing backup to Lewis Grabban.
If you contrast that to how well-stocked they are in central defence, they have seven players fighting it out for two spots.
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Joe Worrall and Michael Dawson are the two incumbents in the back four, which means that Chema, Tobias Figueiredo, Alexander Milosevic, Yohan Benalouane and Michael Hefele are all fighting it out just to be the one named on the substitutes bench.
Whilst Sabri Lamouchi has spoken about the importance of Grabban this term and how vital it is to keep him fit and firing throughout the season, it’s simply impossible to ask someone, especially at his age to carry the load for a full campaign.
Something has got to give and to help the situation out, Forest must consider shipping out one of the centre-backs.
Not just any centre-back though, someone who will bring in enough money to fund a move for a reliable backup centre-forward. Whilst he may be relatively close to the first-team, the club needs to bite the bullet and sell Figueiredo.
Despite being a first-team regular when he first joined in 2018, he has very much been frozen out of the side, with cup appearances sprinkled in here and there.
However, he is yet to feature under Lamouchi in the league with Chema and Milosevic getting the nod ahead when Michael Dawson went down recently, more or less signalling that his time could be up.
With a long time remaining on his contract, and still in his prime at 25, there should be no reason why they can’t command a decent fee for him in the winter window.
Whether it be used as a way of funding a transfer fee for a striker, or spending it on wages for one of the many free agents out there, there’s only one area that the club need to be spending money on in January, and only one source the money should come from.
Worrall could be the one that they eventually cash in on if a potential move to Newcastle materialises but it’s Figueiredo who is undoubtedly more expandable. They’ll now just have to hope a party is interested.