Nottingham Forest could have the pick of England's best young loan signings next season

Who wouldn’t like to see Nottingham Forest promoted?

Other than the crew down the other end of the A52, perhaps 99 percent of football fans would like to see Forest back in the Premier League, but what if it doesn’t happen?

There is a silver lining to not getting promoted this time around.

How would Forest fans like to have England under 21 internationals on loan next season, because if Forest want it, they’ll get it.

Djed Spence, Max Lowe, Keinan Davis, James Garner and Philip Zinckernagel have all improved as players, as have their reputations and valuations. If you have a really good young player in the Premier League and he can’t break into their team, the parent club will be knocking on the door of Steve Cooper.

In fact, they’ll be beaten to it by the player's agent pushing to get their man in the best team for player development, Nottingham Forest.

Of course this is all an assumption, Forest may just do the unthinkable and find their way into the promised land, however at Forest we don’t count our chickens, because we remember getting done over by Plymouth and Charlton. Oh and erm Yeovil, Sheffield United and Blackpool.

So I’m going to play on the safe side, and just assume we will be in the Championship next season. We will have a snowballs chance in hell of retaining Spence and Garner. But there’s a positive outlook for perhaps signing Lowe and Davies on permanent deals, maybe Zinckernagel on another loan?

Now add in four or five England Under-21s who aren't playing first team football and it starts to look a little exciting.

Unless lightening strikes twice, if Forest do not get promoted, Joe Worrall and Brennan Johnson will leave.

Johnson only has a year left on his contract and will bring in at least