Nottingham Forest want a new goalkeeper in place before next week’s transfer deadline with speculation increasing around Frederik Ronnow.
A vast number of goalkeepers have been linked with Nottingham Forest over the last few weeks but it appears that Mark Warburton’s side have identified the number one target with a week of the transfer window remaining.
Yet, Forest will be under no illusions that they will not be able to sign Danish international shot-stopper Frederik Ronnow on the cheap this month.
Because, after Forest had a bid of £1.8 million turned down earlier this week, the Nottingham Post is now reporting that Brondby now rebuffed a second offer of £2.3 million.
The Danish giants will not sell for less than £2.8 million but and it remains to be seen whether the Championship high-flyers will return with a third bid. However, Ronnow is still very cheap in today’s market and appears the perfect addition to Warburton’s starting XI.
What’s half a million between friends?
Blessed with excellent reflexes as well as technical ability, the five-time Danish international should have no trouble fitting into Warburton’s build-from-the-back philosophy.
And it appears that the goalkeeper himself would be receptive to a move this summer.
“I want to be as good as I can and so I have to push myself too. I’m at a level now that makes me ready to go to another league,” Ronnow said in quotes reported by the Nottingham Post.
He hinted that a desire to fight Leicester City’s Kasper Schmeichel to be Denmark’s first-choice goalkeeper would be behind his decision to seek a new challenge.
Schmeichel’s international recognition is undoubtedly aided by the fact he is plying his trade in one of the world’s most popular leagues, after all.
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