Nottingham Forest and Fulham have expressed an interest in signing Simon Terodde with the striker’s £45,000-a-week contract at FC Koln due to expire in 2021, according to BILD.
Cast your mind back to the summer of 2016.
At the time, Derby County were desperate to tie up a bargain £1.5 million deal for a prolific number nine who had spent the previous season racking up the goals (28 to be exact) at VFL Bochum, according to The Sun.
But four years after the Rams were pipped to the post by Stuttgart, Terodde could finally be on his way to the East Midlands – albeit to join the club on the other side of Brian Clough Way.
BILD claims that the 32-year-old German is expected to leave Koln after playing just an hour of football in the second half of the Bundesliga campaign.
And, despite his advancing years and a hefty £2 million-a-year contract, Terodde is not short of offers from both England and Germany.
Terodde is a target for not only Nottingham Forest but also Fulham, Blackburn Rovers and a Nurnburg side who only avoided relegation into the third tier thanks to a 96th minute decider in a play-off with Ingolstadt.
Terodde scored just four times for Koln in 2019/20 but his record in the 2.Bundesliga is something to behold. The 6ft 3ins frontman found the net on 33 occasions in 2018/19 – even more than during that brilliant campaign at Bochum.
Perhaps he could be the man to ease the crushing burden of responsibility on Forest’s overworked top scorer Lewis Grabban.
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