Overview
- Glasner met the squad at the Nigel Doughty Academy on Monday and has taken charge of pre-season training to begin implementing his methods.
- The club sold Elliot Anderson to Manchester City for £116 million, creating an urgent midfield vacancy that Forest intend to fill with careful, targeted recruits rather than a wide spending spree.
- Forest entered pre-season without any new signings and the board has stressed a policy of keeping the squad core while strengthening specific areas to fit the new coach’s plans.
- Glasner favours a back-three with wing-backs, a tactical shift that is already steering recruitment priorities toward centre-backs and full-backs who suit that system.
- The manager negotiated an earlier return for World Cup players so they can be integrated quickly, with a broader club aim to build consistency, unity and higher Premier League finishes under owner Evangelos Marinakis.