STRIKER WILL MAKE POTENTIAL £17M NOTTINGHAM FOREST MOVE ON ONE CONDITION

STRIKER WILL MAKE POTENTIAL £17M NOTTINGHAM FOREST MOVE ON ONE CONDITION

 

STRIKER WILL MAKE POTENTIAL £17M NOTTINGHAM FOREST MOVE ON ONE CONDITION
Nottingham Forest are keen on Stuttgart striker Serhou Guirassy but he will only swap the Bundesliga for the Premier League if Steve Cooper’s side can guarantee him first-team football.

After losing Sasa Kalajdzic to Wolves back in 2022, history may be repeating itself for Stuttgart.

 

Serhou Guirassy, scorer of 14 goals in all competitions, proved to be an outstanding replacement for the towering Kalajdzic; Stuttgart avoiding relegation by the skin of their teeth yet again. But with a very affordable release clause in his contract, and with interest from the Premier League, Sebastian Hoeness’ side are facing up to the prospect of losing their talismanic top-scorer for the second summer in succession.

Serhou Guirassy has one demand for Nottingham Forest

Nottingham Forest, according to BILD, are big fans of 27-year-old Guirassy.

 

And with good reason. Forest averaged only a goal-a-game in 2022/23. Taiwo Awoniyi enjoyed an outstanding end to the campaign but there remains a lack of quality depth in the number nine position; Chris Wood struggling to fire after leaving Burnley, and Sam Surridge departing for a fresh start in the MLS.

 

With a release clause between £13 and £17 million in his Stuttgart contract, Guirassy feels like an affordable solution to Forest’s goalscoring problems.

The well-travelled Guinea international has his concerns, however. Guirassy, once of Rennes, Lille and Cologne, is pretty much the first name on Stuttgart’s team sheet, and BILD report that will only consider leaving the Mercedes Benz Arena for another club willing to making him their ‘first choice’ striker.

And Nottingham Forest may be in no position to make such promises. Not with Awoniyi – scorer of six goals in the final four league games of 2022/23 – already at Steve Cooper’s disposal.

 

Guirassy would bring invaluable depth to the Forest attack. But it seems he has little interest in being a rotation option, having already turned down the chance to join West Ham or Crystal Palace before swapping Amiens for Rennes back in 2020.