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RECRUIT SPLURGE, BUT REDS LEAVE DOUBTS

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The LeaguePaper Team
9 September 2018

THEY’LL soon have to build another wing at the Nigel Doughty Academy to house the vast influx of Nottingham Forest’s new players.
Claudio Yacob, below, the former West Brom midfielder, last week became Forest’s 16th signing of the summer.
It looks as though Karim Ansarifard, the Iranian striker, will soon become number 17.
That’s a remarkable number of recruits and evidence, were more needed, of the ambitious new era underway at the City Ground. Somehow, though, Forest’s squad still manages to look a little suspect in defence and blunt up front, while Yacob bec...

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