‘Absolutely garbage’: Nottingham Forest fans react to Nelson Oliveira reports

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Nelson Oliveira has been tipped to join Nottingham Forest again from Championship rivals Norwich City, with Aitor Karanka reportedly keen.

Nelson Oliveira appears to be one of most highly-valued strikers in the Championship, having being linked with a big-money move for the third transfer window in succession.

His goal-scoring record, however, is completely at odds with his reputation. Oliveira has scored just 19 goals in 65 Championship matches since joining Norwich City from Benfica for a fee of around £6 million two years ago.

And he did not exactly set the world alight during a loan spell at Nottingham Forest in 2015/16 either. Oliveira produced a number of quality displays but was far from consistent, with a tally of nine goals proving rather underwhelming.

With a number of other, more proven strikers linked with big moves to the City Ground this summer, Forest fans are not too keen on the idea of Oliveira returning to the East Midlands.

As reported by the Mirror, manager Aitor Karanka is keen on bringing Oliviera back this summer with the 17-time Portugal international joining Patrick Bamford and Lewis Grabban – the league’s second highest goal-scorer last season – on the Spaniard’s wish list.

Oliveira is a client of Portuguese super-agent Jorge Mendes, who is understood to be keen on dragging Forest to promotion like he did at Wolves last season. But, if Forest are willing to splash the cash this summer, can they do better?

After all, as recently as March Norwich manger Daniel Farke admitted that he had dropped Oliveira, who had scored just one goal in 13 games, for a lack of work ethic.