Nottingham Forest have announced that defender Riley Harbottle has joined Mansfield Town on a season-long loan ahead of the 2022/23 campaign.
The 21-year-old signed a two-year contract extension earlier this summer to commit his long-term future to the Reds with his previous contract due to expire at the end of last month. Harbottle will now head out on his second loan spell, and first within the English Football League.
After captaining Forest's under-23s last season, the centre-back travelled to Spain earlier this month with head coach Steve Cooper 's first-team squad for their training camp but did not feature in the friendly against Coventry City. The Reds have already signed centre-back Moussa Niakhate this summer, which sees Harbottle further shifted down the pecking order, but that didn't stop the defender from featuring against Burton Albion in midweek.
