Mark Warburton has immediately deployed Zach Clough in his preferred position since arriving at Nottingham Forest.
It’s not often Nottingham Forest owner Fawaz Al-Hasawi puts his hand in his pocket to produce a signing of genuine quality capable of enhancing the first-team.
Yet, the £3 million he paid Bolton Wanderers for Zach Clough already looks like a bargain, as reported by the Daily Mail. The diminutive forward has enjoyed a superb start to life at the City Ground with four goals in his first eight appearences not to mention a further two assists from his nominal position off the front.
And Clough himself believes that he is at the right club to unleash his precocious potential – certainly now Mark Warburton is at the helm.
“Mark is great,” Clough told Forest Review. “I know he wasn’t here when I signed, but I couldn’t have asked for a better manager to come in with the style of play he wants.”
“It suits me to play a passing game and operate in the number 10 role, and I think have done well since we have been playing this way.”
Clough has been nothing short of instrumental since Warburton’s arrival last month, moving into his favoured position behind the strikers after struggling to influence games on the left under Gary Brazil.
However, as Warburton proved at Brentford, and Rangers to a lesser extent, his purist football philosophy gets the best out of the creative talent at his disposal and Clough is another beneficiary.
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