16 months after he arrived from Bolton Wanderers for £3m, Zach Clough’s time at Championship outfit Nottingham Forest appears to be over.
The writing looked to be on the wall for Zach Clough as soon as Aitor Karanka was appointed as the new Nottingham Forest manager at the start of 2018.
The diminutive attacker was loaned out to former club Bolton Wanderers almost immediately after the Spaniard’s arrival but a frustrating 2017/18 season quickly descended into a nightmare.
He made just two starts for Phil Parkinson’s side between January and May and was eventually dropped to the reserves.
And it seems that a difficult 2018 isn’t getting any easier. According to the Nottingham Post, Karanka has made it clear that Clough has no future at the City Ground, just 16 months after he arrived from Bolton for £3 million.
The 23-year-old is one of a number of players whose profile has now been removed from the club’s official website. The likes of Michael Mancienne, Apostalos Vellios and Barrie McKay, who underwent a medical at Swansea on Monday, are also nowhere to be seen.
It will come as little surprise to many Forest fans, however, that Clough is no longer part of the club’s plans.
The East Midlands outfit have brought in a number of exciting new attackers this summer with Portuguese trio Diogo Goncalves, Gil Dias and the £13 million Joao Carvalho all arriving thanks to super-agent Jorge Mendes.
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