Another youngster could leave Championship giants Nottingham Forest, with Keith Asare in the sights of Bundesliga side Dortmund and Ligue 1 winners Monaco.
Nottingham Forest might have hoped that the days of losing their most exciting young talents would have come to an end when Fawaz Al-Hasawi finally bid farewell to the City Ground in 2017.
During the Kuwaiti businessman’s contentious five-year reign at the Championship club, the likes of Jamaal Lascelles, Karl Darlow and Oliver Burke were all sold from beneath the manager’s feet, earning the club a substantial windfall but costing them ‘one of their own’ time and again.
And Forest fans may be fearing that history is about to repeat itself, with another of their highly talented academy graduates linked with a move that will supposedly put him on track for bigger and better things.
The Sun states that Forest’s Keith Asare is on the radar of two of the biggest talent spotting sides in European football – Borussia Dortmund and Monaco.
The young whizzkid has not yet made his first-team debut for Forest but has been earning rave reviews for the club’s under-18 side. And this has reportedly piqued the interest of Dortmund, who raided Manchester City for Jaden Sancho in the summer, and a Monaco side whose crop of prodigious youngsters led them to the Ligue 1 title last time out.
The situation around Asare is slightly different to the ones involving Lascelles, Darlow and Burke, however.
The trio had been regulars in Forest’s first-team for some time before Newcastle United and RB Leipzig came calling, earning the East Midlands club a lot of money in transfer fees.
Asare, however, has not yet signed a professional contract at Forest so Dortmund or Monaco could pick him up for next to nothing. On the upside, Forest fans will not have to be concerned that his potential exit is the result of the owner looking to make a quick buck.
Nonetheless, the sight of another fresh-faced prodigy leaving the club so early will come as a major disappointment.
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