Costel Pantilimon might have played his last Championship game for Nottingham Forest with Aro Muric arriving from Premier League winners Manchester City.
Costel Pantilimon could be on his way out of Nottingham Forest after the arrival of Manchester City loanee Aro Muric with the Nottingham Post claiming that the giant Romanian is a target for Olympiakos.
Muric might be just 20 years of age but he hasn’t moved to the City Ground to warm the bench.
Pep Guardiola has high hopes for this ‘incredible’ young shot-stopper after all and, speaking to the club’s official website, the Kosovan international made it clear that he has his sights set on a place in Sabri Lamouchi’s starting XI.
And this doesn’t look good for Pantilimon.
The 32-year-old joined Nottingham Forest from Watford in 2018 and played 44 of their 46 Championship games last season. But the 6ft 8ins Pantilimon never managed to win over each and every supporter with mistakes never too far away.
Muric, meanwhile, is 12 years younger, far more agile and very, very confident with the ball at his feet. The Premier League winner, like fellow new recruits Tiago Silva and Alfa Semedo, appears to herald a return to a more possession-based style at the City Ground during the Lamouchi era.
And the Nottingham Post believes that Pantilimon could now follow in the footsteps of El Arabi Hillel Soudani by swapping Forest for Evangelos Marinakis’ other club, the Greek giants Olympiakos. The revolution continues.
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