It was clear to everyone that one of the major challenges Nottingham Forest's first season back in the Premier League was a running theme of injuries - and just what Steve Cooper had to contend with has been highlighted in new analysis.
The team behind Premier Injuries say that Forest are in the Premier League's bottom two "for just about every measurable injury dataset" in 2022/23 - and they had the joint worst record with Chelsea in terms of wages lost to injured players. It is claimed that 25 per cent of the budget went on players in the treatment room.
Only five Forest players were on the pitch for more than 2,000 minutes out of the 3,420 available and only two - Brennan Johnson (2,941) and Morgan Gibbs-White (2,978) - which emphasised "how disrupted" the team's campaign was by injuries. Even Gibbs-White missed 59 days over the course of the term.
