Nottingham Forest ‘raise wall’ in transfer negotiations – Club must decide what to do in ‘next few hours’

When we last checked in with Nottingham Forest’s attempts to sign Nicólas Domínguez from Bologna, Remo Freuler was involved.

The Serie A side want to sign the Switzerland international, who only arrived at City Ground last summer for €9m, while the Tricky Trees are after the Argentine.

It should be a win-win situation for both clubs, but Corriere dello Sport on Tuesday explain that it currently isn’t, as Nottingham Forest are being difficult.

At least, that’s how Bologna see it, with it said the Premier League club ‘raise a wall’ in the transfer negotiations by wanting to pay €8m for Domínguez + the permanent signing of Freuler in Bologna.

This is the sticking point, and the ‘knot to untie’, because while Giovanni Sartori, the Serie A side’s technical director, wants the Nottingham Forest player ‘at all costs’, he would have ‘preferred the formula of the loan with the right to buy by putting some bonuses into the operation’.

There are some at Bologna who ‘would like to close the operation immediately’, while others are more willing to ‘put up a fight’, knowing full well it could end badly, meaning Domínguez stays put for another year and leaves for free next summer.

Basically, either they get it done on Nottingham Forest’s terms, or the ‘deal is blown up’ simply on the basis that they don’t want to give in to the Premier League club and the desire of Pablo Sabbag, the Argentine’s agent, who is the one who conjured up this deal.

In short, Bologna must decide ‘in the next few hours’ whether to go with it or simply ‘put an end to the negotiation’.