Nottingham Forest make transfer decisions as retained list is announced

Nottingham Forest have announced their retained list, following the end of their promotion-winning campaign.

The Reds have four players whose contracts expire at the end of this month. And three of them have been let go.

Defenders Tobias Figueiredo, Gaetan Bong and Carl Jenkinson will depart the City Ground. However, the club are in talks with Lewis Grabban about a new deal, with the striker having missed the final weeks of the season because of injury.

In addition to the above defensive trio heading out the exit door, loanees Djed Spence (Middlesbrough), Philip Zinckernagel (Watford), Max Lowe (Sheffield United), James Garner (Manchester United) and Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) have returned to their parent sides. However, Forest will try to bring at least some of them back; CEO Dane Murphy having made clear he wants to keep “the band of brothers” together.

Figueiredo leaves Trentside after making 122 appearances in the Garibaldi, scoring three goals. He penned a four-year deal in 2018 when a loan turned into a permanent move.

The Portuguese came close to a January deadline day switch to Vitoria this year, only for the deal to collapse at the last minute. He found himself down the pecking order following the arrival of Steve Cook that month, but impressed when stepping in while the former Bournemouth centre-back was sidelined, playing his part in achieving promotion.

Bong joined the Reds in January 2020 and featured 20 times for the club. Although just four of those appearances came under Steve Cooper, the head coach often pointed to the full-back’s influence in the dressing room. Jenkinson, meanwhile, had not been part of the first-team set-up for some time. He arrived from Arsenal in the summer of 2019, but managed just