Nottingham Forest manager Mark Warburton had hoped to reunite with former Rangers attacker Martyn Waghorn.
Nottingham Forest manager Mark Warburton only managed to complete the signing of one of his former Rangers favourites this summer, Barrie McKay a snip of a signing at just £500,000 (BBC).
This was not for a lack of trying, however. According to The Mail, Warburton was hoping of bringing Martyn Waghorn with him to the City Ground once the summer window opened. Though the one-time Sunderland youngster wasn’t always a first-team regular under Warburton, he was one of Rangers’ most threatening attacking players during the 55-year-old’s year-and-a-half spell at Ibrox.
Waghorn scored a stunning 28 goals in 36 games in 2015/16, firing Rangers back into the top flight for the first time since their 2012 demotion and ended the following campaign with a respectable 16 in 41.
Forest missed out to Championship rivals Ipswich Town, however, with manager Mick McCarthy claiming that his side paid ‘nowhere near’ the mooted £1 million asking price for the 27-year-old attacker, per the Daily Record.
However much Ipswich paid, Waghorn is already looking like a bargain. He has six goals in six Championship starts and is a major reason why a side tipped to struggle at the start of the season are currently the joint top scoring side in the second tier.
They’ve hit 20 goals already in 2017/18 – quite an achievement considering it took them until late-December to manage such a tally last time out.
Forest, then, could only dream of a thrilling partnership of McKay and Waghorn at the City Ground.
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