Nottingham Forest poised for double swoop on Wolves' Guedioura and Elokobi
STEVE Cotterill will consider a £1m-plus double raid on Wolves once the Kuwaiti takeover of Nottingham Forest is completed.
The Reds boss is hopeful of getting the green light to begin rebuilding his squad in the near future, as the Al-Hasawi family edge closer to securing a deal to buy the Championship club.
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Adlene Guedioura
And he will begin his recruitment campaign with a bid to land Wolves duo Adlene Guedioura and George Elokobi.
Wolves are themselves preparing for life in the Championship following their relegation from the top flight – and will do so under a new manager, in the form of Norwegian-born Ståle Solbakken.
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The former Copenhagen boss, appointed at the end of last season, has already made three signings of his own this summer, meaning that the squad at Molineaux is now top-heavy with more than 45 players.
With Solbakken also hopeful of adding another creative midfielder to a dressing room that already includes Nenad Milijas and Jamie O'Hara, Wolves are willing to do business over Algerian international Guedioura, who made an outstanding impact during his loan spell at the City Ground last season.
Wolves paid around £2m to sign the 26-year-old from Charleroi in 2010, but he has only one year left on his current deal.
He is also understood to be enthusiastic about a permanent move to Forest, where he starred amid 19 loan appearances, playing a key role in their successful fight against relegation – and could be available for around £750k.
Forest are also keen on Elokobi, who also played an important role while on loan with the Reds last season, making 12 appearances.
His future with Wolves may be less clear cut, as he is the only senior back-up to versatile left-back Stephen Ward.
But Wolves do have highly-rated youngster Jamie Reckord waiting in the wings and, with Solbakken needing to trim his squad – and with Elokobi's contract also set to expire in 12 months – Forest may also be able to land him for something in the region of the £300k Wolves paid to sign him from Colchester in January 2008.
Cotterill will be hoping he gets the green light to swoop for Guedioura sooner rather than later, as Brighton are also understood to be interested.
Comments
by PositivePaul
Wednesday, July 04 2012, 9:10PM
“Ah! Parvared, how touching, sticking up for Big Boy like that. I hope he appreciates you.
Humble pie tastes just fine thanks. You should try it sometime.”
by nidgechlough
Wednesday, July 04 2012, 9:00PM
“Yes good old fashioned English players with lovely traditional surnames,marvelous .”
by kpi99
Wednesday, July 04 2012, 6:30PM
“As has alread been said - this is premature twaddle. I cannot see that Cockerill will be given any "green light" for anything. I'm happy to be proved wrong but I think both Cockerill and Arthur are dead men walking. Frank too probably.”
by flipflopper
Wednesday, July 04 2012, 6:18PM
“Devious Doug, that is a brilliant name.”
by MarmarisMart
Wednesday, July 04 2012, 3:51PM
“Another one bites the dust as my 6k bet on foret getting religated gets stronger by the day.
I brought martyn2011 new subwoofers yesterday out of my vegas winnings as well all know he likes to listern to the games on radio in surround sound,
I known martyn since school and can confirm he only goes to games when its a tenner. the rest of the time hes aarmchair plastic fan who obssessors with going on the derby website. He did tell me though if he could get a season ticket with his mobile phone he would do.
NOT THE SORT OF GUY TO SAY I TOLD YOU SO BUTTTTTTTTTTTTTT I TOLD YOU SO.forest being religated is the best tip so far that nottinghams finest ha given you”
by Doug1978
Wednesday, July 04 2012, 10:36AM
“Flipflopper - lol, I now regret not picking DeviousDoug as my nickname...
The story just seems premature - and reminds me of the infamous Whittingham issues of a couple of years ago. Perhaps I'm wrong and our beloved Marthur has nothing to do with it, but clearly either someone is leaking stories or the NEP is jumping the gun again.
(and sorry Bomdia for mis-spelling your name).”
by Parvared
Wednesday, July 04 2012, 9:06AM
“PositivePaul:
I think you'll find that Micky was right on more than two occasions! But nice to see you eating humble pie - God that must have hurt!!!!!!!!”
by PositivePaul
Wednesday, July 04 2012, 6:34AM
“Itsjustagame
It is very nice to see you back again, I hope alll is well in your private life.
I made the statement about there not being a queue of potential buyers while our previous owner was still alive and still subsidising the salaries of the McClaren signings. At that time there was nobody interested in owning the club. When Mr Doughty tragically died, it became inevitable that new owners would be found. Unlike you i think that the fact that it has taken 8 months to get to where we are now, tells me that at the time of his death those buyers were not in the bidding, but came forward only when the inevitable sale was confirmed. As I have said if the new owners are half as generous as Nigel Doughty, I will be delighted.
As for the loan to the club that Mr Doughty stated he never wanted back, I can't see what that statement has to do with the sale of the club, surely you can't expect the man to write off up to £100 million of his own money and then sell the club for nothing?
I never thought I would say this but Big Boy has actually been right on two occasions in the past few days. Firstly he is right that as with the Billy Davies debate, we should leave the Nigel Doughty debate behind us: secondly, if Steve Cotterill is to stay I would hope the new owners seek permission to speak to Sean O'Drisscol about the Forest Assistant Manager position.
Glad to see you back, I think!”
by flipflopper
Wednesday, July 04 2012, 6:26AM
“Doug1978, perhaps I am not as devious as you, as I never thought of that, but you may well have a point there. Is it just a ploy by the club to sell season tickets? But there again is the entire takeover thing the invention of Mark Arthur? Probably not, But as long as Steve Cotterill remains with us and the availability is there these two will be a target, for this year at least. I can't see Forest offering three year contracts though and they both have a year left on their Wolves contracts. I imagine they will only offer a one year contract to George and a two year contract to Adlene, George with an extension review in six months and Addy after a year. With any luck, every player will now have a contract review with at least one year left to run on their current one. Hopefully Marthur, if he is to remain, will have learnt not to have his fingers burnt again.”
by flipflopper
Wednesday, July 04 2012, 6:18AM
“Doug1978, perhaps I am not as devious as you, as I never thought of that, but you may well have a point there. Is it just a ploy by the club to sell season tickets? But there again is the entire takeover thing the invention of Mark Arthur? Probably not, But as long as Steve Cotterill remains with us and the availability is there these two will be a target, for this year at least. I can't see Forest offering three year contracts though and they both have a year left on their Wolves contracts. I imagine they will only offer a one year contract to George and a two year contract to Adlene, George with an extension review in six months and Addy after a year. With any luck, every player will now have a contract review with at least one year left to run on their current one. Hopefully Marthur, if he is to remain, will have learnt not to have his fingers burnt again.”