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title: "Playmaker: Nottingham’s Forest’s mad, mad summer"
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language: "en-GB"
author: "Dylan Walsh"
section: "Playmaker"
published: "2019-07-28T18:25:53Z"
modified: "2019-07-28T18:25:53Z"
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# Playmaker: Nottingham’s Forest’s mad, mad summer

**The summer is always a hectic period for any football club, but no team this summer has had it quite as bad as Nottingham Forest.**

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The 28th June saw Martin O’Neill surprisingly sacked as manager of Forest, only for the club to announce a replacement for the club icon 18 minutes later in the form of former Stade Rennais boss Sabri Lamouchi ([per BBC Sport](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48800839)). Assistant manager Roy Keane also departed the club a few days earlier ([per BBC Sport](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48737297)).

As Matchday with Max from Two-Footed Talk explains in the video below, it has been a mad summer so far for Forest supporters.

Indeed, it has been a hectic window for Forest as well in terms of players arriving and leaving. The Nottingham-based club signed a trio of Portuguese players in the form of Yuri Ribeiro and Alfa Semedo from Benfica ([per BBC Sport](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48908066)) as well as Tiago Silva from Feirense ([per BBC Sport](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48880039)).

Forest also recruited two players from Premier League sides in the form of Arijanet Muric from Manchester City on loan for the season ([per BBC Sport](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48920985)) as well as Aston Villa winger Albert Adomah on a permanent deal ([per BBC Sport](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48927160)).

***Nottingham Forest fans, where can the club finish next season? Let us know!***