---
title: "Exclusive: Ex-Forest ace drops brutal Bong verdict"
canonical: "https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/exclusive-ex-forest-ace-drops-brutal-bong-verdict/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Harry Sherlock"
section: "Exclusive"
published: "2021-08-27T11:20:31Z"
modified: "2021-08-27T11:20:31Z"
---

# Exclusive: Ex-Forest ace drops brutal Bong verdict

**Former Nottingham Forest star Nigel Jemson believes that Gaetan Bong would not be playing for the club if they had managed to sign a left-back in the summer transfer window.**

Chris Hughton’s side have not managed to bring in a left-sided full-back, instead signing the right-back Jordi Osei-Tutu from Arsenal on loan.

He has been deployed as a left-back in his first [two appearances](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/jordi-osei-tutu/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/397099/plus/0?saison=2021&verein=&liga=&wettbewerb=&pos=&trainer_id=) for Forest, but he only played there [once](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/jordi-osei-tutu/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/397099/plus/0?saison=2021&verein=&liga=&wettbewerb=&pos=&trainer_id=) during his time with the Gunners’ U23s.

\[freshpress-poll id=”301682″\]

Bong, of course, has been suspended, although he started the first game of the season against Coventry City, and was returned to the line-up against Stoke City.

Jemson, though, thinks that the club will remain on the lookout for a new left-back before next week’s transfer deadline.

Indeed, Forest have been roundly awful in the first four league games of the season and have yet to pick up a point this term.

Speaking exclusively to The Transfer Tavern, he said: *“Without being disrespectful, Bong probably wouldn’t have started the season if we had another left back. He’s there and he’s tried to take his chance.*

*“We are looking for left backs, that is a position for definite that we need to look at.”*