Nottingham Forest are set for talks with Atalanta over Swiss midfielder Remo Freuler with a £9m fee mooted… as Steve Cooper looks to add a TWELFTH summer signing to his ranks
- Nottingham Forest will hold further talks over a £9million fee for Remo Freuler
- The Atalanta midfielder is open to making the move to the Premier League side
- Swiss international Freuler has played over 200 games for the Serie A club
Nottingham Forest are to hold further talks with Atalanta on Thursday over a proposed fee for midfielder Remo Freuler.
The 30-year-old, who has been described as ‘the conductor of the orchestra’ at Atalanta has been a key player for the Serie A side making over 200 appearances since joining from Luzern in 2016.
However, Freuler is ready for the new challenge of playing in the Premier League under Steve Cooper.
Atalanta midfielder Remo Freuler is open to a move to newly-promoted Nottingham Forest
The Swiss international has played over 200 games at the Italian side having joined in 2016
Forest also retain an interest in Wolves midfielder Morgan Gibbs-White after their last £25m bid plus £10m in add-ons was rejected
Gibbs-White is highly rated by Steve Cooper from their time together for England’s U17s
Talks have been ongoing for a number of weeks with the deal being on and off as negotiations sway over the proposed £9million fee.
Freuler is willing to make the move but the details have still to be agreed and today will be crucial to the negotiations.
Forest are signing free agent Cheikh Kouyate but remain open to adding a number of new additions.
They have rekindled interest in Emmanuel Dennis at Watford and retain an interest in signing Wolves’ Morgan Gibbs-White.
They are pushing to sign a left-back too but have competition from Brighton for Villarreal left-back Pervis Estupinan.
Pervis Estupinan signed for Villarreal from Watford and has gone on to make 73 appearances
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