Graeme Souness believes Nottingham Forest will struggle this season after their summer spending spree.
The Reds recruited 21 players in the summer window and spent close to £150million on their new recruits following promotion out of the Championship last season. Steve Cooper's side have started slowly in the Premier League having only one of their first six games and Souness thinks they will be involved in a relegation fight come May.
"The biggest part of his job this year is keeping their heads up," Souness told Sky Sports. "Nearly every weekend last year they won a game.
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"It was a happy place to be. When you get promoted, generally it's a very different job description for the manager and coaching staff about keeping their chins up because they'll lose a lot of games in this league.
"I once took a job and turned up on the first day and the guy said to me 'you'll be really happy, we've got 18 new players'.
"So I know how hard it is. I think it's very difficult to integrate all the new players. But you have to do it. He'll be feeling he has to improve on the quality they've got."
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