As poor transfer decisions go, Nottingham Forest’s decision to sign Loïc Badé on loan from Stade Rennais last summer has to be up there.
The centre-back arrived from the French club to bolster Steve Cooper’s squad but was never given a chance by the Welshman, eventually being released in January to join Sevilla.
He’s been shining for the Spanish side since, with Estadio Deportivo covering today how there will be ‘no hesitation’ in moving to sign him on a permanent basis in the summer.
That follows a similar report yesterday about how good he has been and today they detail just how poor a decision it was from Nottingham Forest to let him go.
They explain that, if it were up to Sevilla’s fans, they would have paid the purchase clause for him on Sunday after the clash against Valencia, where the French defender put arguably his best performance to date in.
That fee is set at €12m, with the Spanish side also having paid €250,000 in January for the sixth month loan deal.
That would have been more expensive, but Nottingham Forest ended up paying €400,000 as compensation to end his loan deal early, after already paying €900,000 to sign him for six months in the summer.
Rennes had refused to get involved in ending that in January and left it to the player’s agents and Nottingham Forest to sort, and thus it’s stated the Premier League side had to pay €400,000.
That only further emphasises how desperately poor the whole affair has been for them, with them effectively paying nearly half a million for him to shine somewhere else.
Sevilla aren’t complaining of course, with Badé seemingly set to be a key player for the future and one of Monchi’s better signings of recent years.
