{"id":632970,"date":"2023-12-22T05:53:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T10:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=632970"},"modified":"2023-12-22T05:53:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T10:53:21","slug":"nottingham-forest-gustavo-scarpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/12\/22\/nottingham-forest-gustavo-scarpa\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest Set to Lose &#8216;Brazilian Beckham&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nottingham Forest are enduring a tough week for any football club. <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/5124157\/2023\/12\/20\/steve-cooper-nottingham-forest-exit\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steve Cooper<\/a>, the manager who had seen the Tricky Trees through a multitude of hard times, was sacked on Tuesday. Now, only two days later, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1737869602372137091?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a> has reported that City Ground will no longer be host to a footballer who had been touted as a future world star.<\/p>\n<h2>Gustavo Scarpa Leaving Nottingham Forest for Atletico Mineiro<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7 Nottingham Forest have accepted bid in excess of \u20ac5m for Gustavo Scarpa to join Atletico Mineiro.<\/p>\n<p>Personal terms agreed and documents being exchanged soon. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OIdUBAZIEI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/OIdUBAZIEI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1737869602372137091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Atletico Mineiro Interest<\/h3>\n<p>The Italian journalist reported that Brazilian midfielder Gustavo Scarpa would be departing. Currently on loan to Greek club Olympiacos, the 29-year-old will return to his home nation after the Tricky Trees accepted Brazilian Serie A side Atletico Mineiro&#8217;s over \u00a34 million offer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/12\/19\/arsenal-everton-amadou-onana-thomas-partey-replacement\/\" target=\"_self\">Arsenal Considering 6\u20194\u201d Midfield \u2018Dynamo\u2019 Among Others As They Look To Potentially Replace Thomas Partey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Romano noted: &#8220;Personal terms agreed and documents being exchanged soon.&#8221; Scarpa last played in Brazil with Palmeiras, whom he joined Forest from, in the 2022 season. He spent a total of nine years in the Brazilian football league system before his short stint in Europe with the Tricky Trees and Olympiacos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch: <\/strong>The Biggest Problem with YOUR Premier League Club<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Biggest Problem with YOUR Premier League Club\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2GNhwMen_Qo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Scarpa Fails to Live up to Expectations<\/h3>\n<p>Scarpa netted 71 goals before joining Forest. When he signed on, the initial deal had him staying at City Ground until 2026. A lack of playing time, due to poor form, led to a loan move to Greece. Even with Olympiacos, though, the midfielder has been unable to assert himself into a starting role.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/12\/19\/tottenham-hotspur-jean-clair-todibo-nice-transfer-talks\/\" target=\"_self\">Tottenham Hotspur \u2018Open Talks\u2019 To Sign \u2018Very Talented\u2019 Ex-Barcelona Centre-Back In January<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Years ago, as a budding player who had worked his way up through the Fluminense youth academy, Scarpa was at one point dubbed &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/soccer\/news\/fifa-urged-to-witness-the-brazilian-david-beckham\/18iop8bg4wpj51xes908gnry2q\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Brazilian Beckham<\/a>.&#8221; A 2017 debut with his nation&#8217;s senior side suggested a spectacular future for the then-23-year-old. Now, with only ten appearances for Forest under his belt, he becomes the first departure following Cooper&#8217;s sacking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nottingham Forest are enduring a tough week for any football club. Steve Cooper, the manager who had seen the Tricky Trees through a multitude of hard times, was sacked on Tuesday. Now, only two days later, Fabrizio Romano has reported that City Ground will no longer be host to a footballer who had been touted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4764,"featured_media":633008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"1703116800","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"Forest\/Scarpa","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"300","footnotes":""},"categories":[4475,3,7188,28],"tags":[8664],"class_list":["post-632970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nottingham-forest","category-premier-league","category-rumours","category-transfers","tag-nottingham-forest-transfer-rumours"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632970","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\/4764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}