Are Nottingham Forest achieving the most unexpected comeback in English football? Monday January 6, the Midlands club, nestled in one of the country’s former industrial hearts, can consolidate its third place in the Premier League in the last match of the 20e day, in Wolverhampton. If it maintains its pace (37 points in 19 matches), “Forest” would return to the Champions League in 2025, forty-five years after its last participation, during the 1980-1981 season. An unthinkable performance for a club which has been fighting for its survival since its promotion to the elite two years ago, after long years in purgatory.
Successively 16e in 2023 then 17e in 2024, the “Reds” started last season with a handicap of four points, sanctioned due to a deficit deemed excessive over a continuous period of three years. Returning to the first division in 2022, Forest had shaken up its squad in the off-season, breaking the English record for the highest number of arrivals during a single transfer period (21 recruits for 180 million euros spent).
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