Lingard, promoted Nottingham’s luxury reinforcement

Historic Nottigham Forest are continuing their ambitious policy of reinforcements after achieving promotion to the Premier League after a 23-year absence and today announced the signing of Jesse Lingard, who was released when his contract expired on June 30 and ended 22 years as a Manchester United Player.

The 29-year-old English striker decided not to renew at United due to his low participation last season and signs for Nottingham, who made a financial effort to satisfy the player’s high salary. The length of his contract was not disclosed, but he will wear the number 10 on his shirt.

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Lingard joined Manchester United in 2000 and has been in his discipline ever since, although he has been loaned several times to Leicester, Birmingham, Brighton, Derby County and, most importantly, West Ham, where he arrived in January 2021 and where he gave. a great performance before returning to Old Trafford at the end of that season.

After standing in the London team, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, United’s manager at the time, promised him more minutes. However, the Norwegian or later Ralf Rangnick did not give the continuation to the Englishman last season, so he decided to end a life at United on June 30.

Eleven reinforcements and 81 million euro investment

In total, Lingard played 232 games for United and scored 35 goals, in addition to playing 32 games for the English team. Now he joins a Nottingham team that has already spent 81 million this summer signing Dean Henderson (Manchester United), Taiwo Awoniyi (Union Berlin), Brandon Aguilera (Alajuelense), Neco Williams (Liverpool), Giulian Biancone (Troyes), Wayne Hennessey ( Burnley), Moussa Niakhaté (Mainz), Omar Richards (Bayern Munich), Harry Toffolo and Lewis O’Brien, both from Huddersfield.