Nottingham Forest and Fulham have ‘manifested interest’ in 21-year-old – Need to act very quickly

On Tuesday, a convoluted process had begun between Nottingham Forest, Torino and Atalanta for the right-back’s potential move to City Ground.

The Tricky Trees were said to be interested in the 21-year-old, currently on loan from Bergamo in Turin, where he wasn’t being used much.

This came around the same time as Nottingham Forest’s Serge Aurier was being touted as a Galatasaray target, yet Foot Mercato believe there’s another club in the mix: Fulham.

It’s a bit of a strange one, since the Craven Cottage side already have Timothy Castagne (brought in from Leicester in the summer) and Kenny Tete in the role, but they are said to be keen on the young defender.

Foot Mercato report on Wednesday that Atalanta and Torino are currently in talks to break the loan of Soppy, who himself wants to leave Turin because of both his lack of game time and him being ‘tempted by an English adventure’.

The Bergamo side only want to cut the deal short if they can find him a new club to bounce back in immediately, and both Nottingham Forest and Fulham have ‘manifested an interest’ for the former Udinese man.

The problem for them, and this comes directly from Italy courtesy of Gianluca Di Marzio, is that Schalke 04 are now getting ‘closer and closer’ to getting Soppy on loan, with the German side in talks to strike a deal.

In short, if Nottingham Forest and Fulham really do want him, they are going to have to jump in properly very quickly.