Nottingham Forest are 'keeping an eye' on Bayer Leverkusen defender Odilon Kossounou.
The 22-year-old earned a move to the Bundesliga club back in 2021, after breaking through and catching the eye with his performances for Club Brugge in Belgium. He has now fallen down the pecking order in Leverkusen, so could be set for a move away with Forest one of three clubs in England to be linked with an interest.
According to The Sun, Forest are watching on as Leicester City and West Ham battle for Kossounou's signature, with the centre-back likely to move on in the summer transfer window. If the defender is to move to the Premier League in the summer, Leverkusen would be looking for a fee in the region of £25million.
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He is not the first Leverkusen centre-back to be linked with Forest in recent months. During the January transfer window, Forest were linked with interest in his teammate Jonathan Tah - though a move never materialised, with Atletico Madrid's Felipe moving to the City Ground instead.
It's said that both Leicester and Forest would want to drive that fee down, perhaps by way of a loan-to-buy agreement, so it may be the case that Forest wait to see what develops before they decide whether or not to make a move.
Forest have a stacked central defence, though current injury problems have ravaged the back four, with Joe Worrall and Felipe the only fit centre-backs at present.
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