Nottingham Forest have been linked with a move for Chelsea defender Levi Colwill.
The 19 year-old Blues defender spent the past 12 months at Huddersfield Town in the Championship, featuring 29 times and scoring twice as the Yorkshire outfit reached the play-off final. It was his touch on a James Garner cross which wrong-footed Terriers shot-stopper Lee Nicholls to provide the only goal of the game and send Forest into the Premier League.
Forest are looking for another central defender to add competition to Joe Worrall, Scott McKenna and Steve Cook. Tobias Figueiredo has already left and Loic Mbe Soh is unlikely to feature in the Premier League, and Fabrizio Romano claims the Reds may have found the ideal candidate.
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According to the Italian transfers expert, Forest are part of a four-way race for the Chelsea defender. Alongside Steve Cooper's side, Leicester, Crystal Palace and Brighton are claimed to have asked for Colwill's services.
Colwill, a Chelsea graduate, has aspirations of playing as high as possible following his failed promotion attempt with Huddersfield and has not ruled out a move away in order to get as many minutes as possible.
"For me, playing for Chelsea will always be the main aim right now because it’s my club," he explained. "But if that doesn’t happen, well then I have to find other ways to progress and become the player I want to be."
The fresh link comes amid stumbling transfer talk involving Forest's pursuit of Mainz defender Moussa Niakhate. The French defender - who has a year left on his current deal with the Bundesliga side - is a target for the Reds but negotiations have hit an impasse with the two parties apart in their valuations of the athletic defender according to reports.
A former France under-21 international, the 26-year-old has previously attracted interest from other Premier League clubs. Everton, Newcastle United and West Ham United were all linked back in April.
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