Nottingham Forest have announced the signing of defender Willy Boly from Wolves, taking the club’s summer transfers up to 19.
The Ivory Coast international (31) has signed a two-year deal at the City Ground to further bolster Steve Cooper’s squad following a return to the Premier League.
Boly made 147 appearances for Wolves, but his departure was somewhat acrimonious after he failed to turn up for Sunday’s 1-1 draw with Newcastle, despite being named in the squad.
“I am very excited to have a new adventure with this big club and am very impatient to start my first game and training to meet the lads,” Boly said to Forest TV.
“I was not surprised about the signings (that Forest made since being promoted), because it doesn’t mean nothing – it was the spirit the team have shown (in the Premier League so far) which was more important for me.”
Cooper confirmed he hoped to be able to end a “unique transfer window” with a couple more signings ahead of the 11pm deadline.
“Things are going on and it can be a little bit of a scramble on deadline day, not just for us, for any club, but we are certainly trying to do a few things,” he said.
“Some might come off, none of it might come off, so we will wait and see, but we are trying that is for sure.”
Forest host Bournemouth on Saturday looking to regroup following successive defeats – having lost 6-0 at Manchester City on Wednesday evening when Erling Haaland struck a second successive Premier League hat-trick.
Cooper, though, maintains any more new arrivals would be part of summer planning, rather than a reaction to recent results.
“If it is, it is only going to be a couple (of signings),” he told a press conference.
“A lot has been quite rightly said about the amount of signings we have made already. It has been a unique transfer window for sure, I understand and accept that.”
Forest have been linked with a deadline-day move for Strasbourg striker Ludovic Ajorque as well as Blackpool winger Josh Bowler and Ivory Coast defender Serge Aurier.
Whatever else transpires, Cooper feels he will have been given enough strength in depth to make Forest competitive as they battle to stay in the Premier League.
“Short term, we’ve got to win games and play well, become a team as quick as we can, but at least now, we know we can do it with players who are here for the long term,” he said.
The simplest rule change would be if a team don’t score a goal they don’t get a point.
0-0 no side gets a point.
1-1 2-2 etc a point each.
That way if you don’t score at least 1 goal you lose.
Excellent idea.
Right lads – we’ll let you score one and then you let us score one and then we’ll start playing properly.
I’d prefer something more like Rugby. Maybe a bonus point for scoring 3.
They should do it so that no game is a draw in a league , a tie after 90 mins goes to penalties
I always thought in a draw the away team gets 2 points, home team one.
A bonus point for scoring three goals would just increase the gap between the big teams and the rest. Imagine the state of La Liga or the Bundesliga if that rule was introduced!
Some fine new product has arrived in Amsterdam, it seems.
Reckon VanB asten knows more about the game than the lot of us put together
He does. It doesn’t make his ideas right.
I think the rule needs changing, not abolishing
It’ll be like school again, playing world cup and it was always the useless lad who hung on the post that won it
Haha beat me to it! Good auld world cup and heads and v’s!
Peter that’s called hatching
NO MOOTCHING LADS
Ridiculous, it would negate high pressing and make teams sit back. Meaning very little in the way of counter attacks and a lot of possession without a lot of action.
He is dead right when he says football needs to change. It’s full of cheats, time wasters, cry babies and the rules are cementing the status quo when they should be trying to change it.
Interesting debate – UEFA have obviously already abolished penalising hand-ball in the box with a penalty judging from the officials completely ignoring 3 of them in last Wednesday night’s Europa Cup Final!!
I taste grapes, sour merseyside grapes
I’m trying my VERY best to have a laugh at it now, Marc, a bit of good-humoured banter, despite the persistent frustration!
Completely ignoring 3!!
You reckon you deserved ’3′ penalties.
Kop yerself on
WOOOOOSSSSSHHHHHH!!!
Was listening to football weekly a while back and jimbo had a great idea to make everything more competitive and interesting. 3 points available per game as usual. If you win you get 2 and if it’s by more than 2 goals you get the bonus. If you lose by just the 1 you get 0 points but if it’s 2 goals or more you are docked a point. It would certainly keep the table interesting and you could forget about counting on games in hand as being necessarily good things.