Nottingham Forest will enquire about signing Billy Sharp and Daniel Ayala permanently
NOTTINGHAM Forest will enquire about signing Billy Sharp and Daniel Ayala permanently in January.
But fellow loan signing James Coppinger will head back to Doncaster when his deal expires next month.
Sean O'Driscoll today said Forest would like to add defender Ayala and striker Sharp to their ranks permanently.
But the Reds boss also admitted that much will depend on whether parent clubs Norwich and Southampton are prepared to do business.
Choose from 100's of Carpet, Vinyl & Laminate Floor and get any for Half Price. Simply print off this voucher and mention This is Nottingham when you arrange your free estimate.
Terms: One voucher per order. Can not be used with any other offer or discount. Voucher must be produced at time of sale. Don't miss out, this offer ends Thursday and will not be repeated.
Contact: 0115 8969583
Valid until: Thursday, May 23 2013
"Everything has a price. But it is whether Southampton and Norwich want to sell," said O'Driscoll.
"I am not sure, because we have not had that conversation.
"If the players are available for sale, then other clubs might be interested as well. It is an ongoing situation with these things.
"It is what it is... both would cost us a significant amount of money. We are not working within a specific financial budget, where we have 'this or that' to spend.
"But it is whether we believe something is the right thing to do."
Having made just two starts and four sub appearances at Forest, Coppinger wants to return to Doncaster.
"James wants to play and Doncaster are keen to get him back. I imagine we would have an opportunity to bring in other loan players," he said. "So, for all parties, it is probably better if he goes back."
O'Driscoll has been impressed by the contribution of Ayala and Sharp.
"Daniel has probably been disappointed that he has had a few little niggles," he said. "But every time he plays, he impresses everyone. He is a good age and he can play as well as defend.
"I'm not sure there are any fans in the country who don't like Billy Sharp. He has something about him that people take to.
"He is terrific around the place and I'd back him to score goals in any division.
"It is because he has faith in himself. He does miss chances, but it never fazes him. He just believes that he will score.
"He wants to play football. He wants to play in the Premier League and he believes he is good enough to do it.
"If we can satisfy that desire, I will be delighted. If he feels he has to go back to Southampton to achieve it, he will still have given us good service over the season.
"Talking contractually is not something I like doing in the media. But all the loan players have been good. They all try to do the right things for the right reasons, just not always at the right time."
Comments
by obiwan20
Sunday, December 23 2012, 5:40PM
“Ayala was stupid and I can't for the life of work out what was going through his mind other than he fancied boxing day off so he could go home for Xmas! I am more concerned about B.S,he would be a good permanent signing, to be honest it would be hard for any defender to shine in our defence because we invite to much pressure on them by the way we play,the best defence in the world can only hold out for so long.”
by BrindersGod
Sunday, December 23 2012, 5:16PM
“You could not have got a more stupid performance by anyone than Ayala's - all he's got to do is stand up for another minute whilst we get Halford on. Save our money and send him back instead”
by obiwan20
Sunday, December 23 2012, 5:08PM
“I think both are good players especially BS, I think that once we buy and play with a natural winger we will see the best of BS.”
by flipflopper
Sunday, December 23 2012, 4:55PM
“It's alright talking about making Billy a permanent feature but he will not score many goals the way we are playing at the moment. Half a season gone and we only look like half a team. How long have we got to wait for this team to gel? All we get is excuses, when all we want is victories. Something is very wrong. Zola has not had much longer than O'Driscoll, yet Watford are not only in the top six but looking far more like it than we are. Watford's style of football has taken a bigger transformation than Forest, but they played us off the park. Hopefully Fawaz will analyse the situation and give Sean some much required guidance. Are our coaches not good enough? Does Sean go into too much detail with the team about the opposition? Are the team being made to worry too much about the opposition? Do the team know what they are doing? The players that we have should be much more confident and therefore much more capable. The players that we have are good enough to be pushing for automatic promotion, but judging on yesterdays fiasco we are not playing well enough for a play-off place.
The onus lies on you Sean, sort it out.”
by wotnostrikers
Sunday, December 23 2012, 11:31AM
“Got all excited for a minute...I thought they meant King Billy”
by TrentEndRed
Sunday, December 23 2012, 12:24AM
“Personally I wouldn't sign either of them. We've got Cox and Blackstock, bring back mcGoldrick and tudgay who are both scoring goals....proof it's not them that's the problem.
Spend money on some decent defenders, why the hell we let freeman and lynch leave is beyond me.
Get Greening back too, I wasn't a fan when he first arrived but in his last few months he was very reliable. a lot more than moussi is.”
by Skeggyred
Saturday, December 22 2012, 6:48PM
“I wouldn't bother with Ayala after today's performance,pack him on the first plane back to Spain,he totally left his team mates in the mire”
by Bodyguard_Rob
Saturday, December 22 2012, 2:10PM
“Just got off the blower to my fat little greek mate, Mark90210.He said he transferred through £5.3m to the Nottingham Building society yesterday from Kuwait. He guarantees that this is January transfer money. Jom tells me that the fee for Sharp is £4m that only leaves 1.3m of which Jom reckons will be spent on enhancing the hand basins in the corporate facilities (he demanded this after splashing his chinos, making him look like he wee weed himself)
You might notice that the money shop signs are now down as well? Joms range of cosmetics is going up and every ladies toilet in the ground will now have machines dispensing his 99p range for JUST £2.
B&M”
by whatidontbeli
Saturday, December 22 2012, 1:24PM
“Wow mart you really do live the jet set lifestyle don't you? I mean, fancy having drinks with Bruce Willis, that really is fantastic. Thanks for the tips as well, I will go and put £5000 on the result and the first scorer. I might have a cheeky £15000 on sharp, Cox, Raddi, Reid, Cohen or Gillett getting a goal as well as us winning 1-0 2-0 2-1 3-1 3-2 or drawing 2-2 3-3 4-4. That's the kind of thing that you do isn't it when your original tip goes horribly wrong as it always does. Thanks for the update on your 007 type lifestyle but don't worry so much about the tips mate.”
by mexico-mart
Saturday, December 22 2012, 1:02PM
“Good morning fellow tree's from a bright warm mexico, just spoke to the manager Carlos and he has confirmed the match will be streamed to the onsite cinema complex, so looking forward to watching that and the game today along with Bruce Willis who i shared a few beers with last night at the hotel bar,
Im going for 1-1 today i dont think watford are the greatest team at home and we certainly not the best away...1st goal score tip Blackstock.
Right i must dash i got a massage booked with ALEJANDRA at 8am
NOT THE SORT OF GUY TO SAY I TOLD YOU SO BUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT I TOLD YOU SO.
Enjoy the radio commentry most of you and respect for the true fans who made a effort to go and watch the trees this afternoon”