Championship giants Nottingham Forest were in talks to sign Michael Hector from Premier League giants Chelsea, only for Hull City to swoop in.
Nottingham Forest fans have once again spent the first half of the season bemoaning the club’s unhelpful penchant for defensive howlers.
Only an abysmal Rotherham United side, statistically the worst team in Championship history, conceded more than Forest’s 72 goals last season as they survived by the skin of their teeth on the final day.
And a disastrous run of results which cost Mark Warburton his job has proved beyond doubt that the old Achilles heel remains. Forest have let in 42 goals during 2017/18, a tally only ‘bettered’ by three sides.
But while Michael Mancienne, Matt Mills and even the highly-rated Joe Worrall have been subjected to intense scrutiny from some sections of the support, it is nothing compared to the criticism Michael Hector is enduring at Hull City.
The Chelsea loanee has been in dreadful form of late and it was his rash and entirely needless challenge which set Fulham on their way to clawing back a 2-2 draw at the KCom Stadium in the final game of 2017. And, in the first of 2018, Hector failed to impress once more as relegation threatened Bolton condemned Nigel Adkins’ Hull to a 1-0 defeat at the Macron.
According to The Sun, Forest were in talks about signing nomadic loanee Hector on a season-long deal from Chelsea in June, only for Hull to beat them to it.
On this evidence, however, it appears that the East Midlands giants had a lucky escape. They could do without one more error-prone centre-back after all.
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