Nottingham Forest could emulate Newcastle with stunning record or rule-breaking January transfer plans

Nottingham Forest could emulate Newcastle with stunning record or rule-breaking January transfer plans

Nottingham Forest is exerting influence by making previously unattainable signing plans. Break all the rules or transfer records.

By acquiring players from teams who were recently in and around them in the standings or from teams that were previously unavailable to them, Forest is attempting to strengthen their campaign for Champions League qualifying by capitalising on an incredibly successful season. Fair play, listen. It has been attempted in the past with differing degrees of success.

Newcastle sign Anthony Gordon in 2023
Few could argue that the artificial appendage augmentation wasn’t absurdly effective in accelerating Newcastle’s ascent from relegation contenders to Champions League contenders in just one season.

A year later, Newcastle determined that an Everton player who had previously been out of their grasp was crucial to their future after supporting their fight to avoid the Championship in January 2022 by raiding Burnley and Brighton, both of whom began the month higher than the Magpies in the Premier League table, for Chris Wood and Dan Burn.

Gordon himself called it “a really big step” in his career but Everton were not far from Newcastle the previous season and had beaten them at Goodison 10 months before.

While their trajectories seemed diametrically opposed and it felt as though Gordon was jumping from a sinking ship to a rocket, the Magpies still took advantage of their position to big-time a side they had finished below two seasons before by first unsettling and then signing one of their best players.

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