{"id":580036,"date":"2021-01-22T15:58:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T20:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=580036"},"modified":"2021-01-22T15:58:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T20:58:53","slug":"nottingham-forest-announce-loan-signing-of-filip-krovinovic-from-benfica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/22\/nottingham-forest-announce-loan-signing-of-filip-krovinovic-from-benfica\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest Announce Loan Signing of Filip Krovinovic From Benfica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/22\/nottingham-forest-to-sign-benfica-midfielder-filip-krovinovic-on-loan\/\" target=\"_self\">Nottingham Forest<\/a> have announced the loan signing of Filip Krovinovic from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/10\/05\/queens-park-rangers-chris-willock-benfica\/\" target=\"_self\">Benfica<\/a>. The 25-year-old midfielder will link up with the Championship side until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<h2>Nottingham Forest Complete Deal for Filip Krovinovic<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u270d\ufe0f Krovi is a Red!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NFFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NFFC<\/a> are delighted to announce the loan signing of Filip Krovinovic from Benfica. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xBW7WwytiU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/xBW7WwytiU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nottingham Forest FC \ud83d\udc99 (@NFFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFFC\/status\/1352708332310695943?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 22, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Added Midfield Quality<\/h3>\n<p>Krovinovic arrives at the City Ground having been a transfer target for a while. The midfielder was a January target for a number of teams according to reports, with PAOK, Dynamo Zagreb and Olympiacos all interested.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old&#8217;s move to Forest is the Reds&#8217; first incoming of the season. They have already sent Tendayi Darikwa and Nicholas Ioannou to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/22\/wigan-athletic-set-to-sign-george-johnston\/\" target=\"_self\">Wigan Athletic<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/09\/nottingham-forest-boss-chris-hughton-outlines-january-transfer-window-plan\/\" target=\"_self\">Aris Thessaloniki<\/a> respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Zach Clough, meanwhile, is also expected to make an imminent departure from the City Ground.<\/p>\n<p>The addition of Krovinovic adds quality to a depleted midfield department following a number of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Arter and Jack Colback remain injured; meanwhile, Ryan Yates was also forced off with a calf injury against Middlesbrough in midweek.<\/p>\n<p>The deal does, however, raise other selection issues. Current EFL regulations stipulate that only five players signed on loan can be named within a matchday squad.<\/p>\n<p>With Cyrus Christie, Anthony Knockaert, Luke Freeman and Cafu all on temporary deals &#8211; and possibly more loan signings expected &#8211; it will leave Forest fans wondering who will be made to make way for a new arrival.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghamforest.co.uk\/news\/2021\/january\/krovinovic-signs-on-loan\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manager Chris Hughton said of Krovinovic<\/a>: \u201cFilip comes with good pedigree and a player we\u2019ve been tracking for a while.<\/p>\n<p>We have found it difficult to get the goals that we\u2019ve needed to win more games so this is an area we\u2019ve been looking to strengthen.<\/p>\n<p>In Filip we have a creative player who played a full season of Championship last year so knows the division. This had a strong bearing in my thinking and, from an offensive point of view, he gives us more options\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nottingham Forest have announced the loan signing of Filip Krovinovic from Benfica. The 25-year-old midfielder will link up with the Championship side until the end of the season. Nottingham Forest Complete Deal for Filip Krovinovic \u270d\ufe0f Krovi is a Red!#NFFC are delighted to announce the loan signing of Filip Krovinovic from Benfica. https:\/\/t.co\/xBW7WwytiU \u2014 Nottingham [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3040,"featured_media":580044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33,4475,28,26],"tags":[687,239,1297,7389,7274,136],"class_list":["post-580036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-championship","category-nottingham-forest","category-transfers","category-west-brom","tag-benfica","tag-efl-championship","tag-football-transfer-news","tag-nottingham-forest-rumours","tag-nottingham-forest-transfer-news","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}