Nottingham Forest - Charlton Athletic

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Hi all, Forest supporter for over 40 years and first time poster. I’ve been viewing this forum for a while and find it the best Forest forum out there. I really enjoy reading everyone’s posts.

In my humble opinion Lamouchi is doing a great job with the tools he has been given. The transfer recruitment from my point of view has been diabolical, bar Samba, Ribiero, Sow, Silva and to be fair Ameobi. The loan recruitment has been even worse. I can’t think of one loan player that has added any value.

This is the best chance we’ve had since Billy Davies was in charge and we should have gone for it in the January transfer window. We are in a position of strength, had a net profit from the summer transfer window and could have attracted good championship proven players. We could have signed the following players relatively cheaply as they are out of contract this summer - Alex Mowatt (Barnsley), Lyle Taylor (Charlton) Kamil Grosicki (now West Brom) and Harry Cornick (Luton). Two we were linked with before and these would have sorted out a lot of our issues and made our 18 man team squad a lot stronger. In addition to this we could have loaned Ryan Woods from Stoke who could have filled in well for Sow.

I also think we should have sold Carvalho if we are not going to use him. As much as I like him he is not a Cgampionship player especially if you don’t build your team around him

Sorry for the rant but if we don’t go up this season then will we be stronger next year. I don’t think so - Cash, Worrall, Lolley and Samba will all be sought after. Grabban, Sow and Watson a year older. Will Lamouchi still be with us. This is the best chance we will have for a while let’s play our strongest team as often as possible and maybe just maybe we can do it this year

Welcome mate. Good post.

I'd add Hogan to your list of potential loanees too. 

I was thinking about your point about not being in a stronger position next year. I agree. I'd also add that next year could be much harder in terms of the competition for promotion places. Watford, West Ham, Villa, Bournemouth, Brighton are all decent, well run clubs. 3 of them will be in the Championship next year. Stoke and the Sheep have failed to show up this season but will likely be good next year. And then there's either Fulham, Leeds or Brentford. Two of those will be around.

We have a fantastic opportunity here and now. It might not come around again for some years to come.