Nottingham Forest will arrive at Newcastle United on Saturday with a new-look team after bringing in 12 players but manager Steve Cooper said the club have not yet completed their transfer business ahead of their first Premier League game in 23 years.
Midfielder Jesse Lingard joined on a free transfer and goalkeeper Dean Henderson arrived on loan from Manchester United, while Forest also broke their transfer record to sign Nigeria forward Taiwo Awoniyi from Union Berlin for a reported 17 million pounds . "If I'm being honest, we would have liked to have carried on with a large part of the team from last year and just added where we thought we needed to add to to compete at the level, but that was never going to be the case.
Former European champions Forest were relegated from the top flight in 1999. They join Bournemouth and Fulham, who won automatic promotion, in the league this season.