{"id":635305,"date":"2024-02-01T11:28:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T16:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=635305"},"modified":"2024-02-01T11:33:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T16:33:49","slug":"nottingham-forest-set-to-sign-matz-sels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/02\/01\/nottingham-forest-set-to-sign-matz-sels\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Flying to the UK\u2019: Nottingham Forest Set to Sign Another New Player With Agreement Now Reached"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">According to\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/David_Ornstein\/status\/1753054887321973102\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">David Ornstein<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, Matz Sels will join Nottingham Forest from Strasbourg on deadline day.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Strasbourg and Nottingham Forest Agree Deal for Matz Sels<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Watch: Football Fans Are Being Lied To<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Football Fans Are Being Lied To\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hEQkQsNQGzo?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><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Belgium Keeper Will Move to Premier League Club On a Permanent Transfer<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The 31-year-old goalkeeper is set to move to Forest and become the third goalkeeper the club has signed this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Sels has made 19 appearances for Strasbourg this season, conceding 24 goals and keeping three clean sheets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Read More:<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/01\/26\/morgan-gibbs-white-newcastle-united-linked\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u2018Scouted extensively\u2019: Newcastle United Linked With Nottingham Forest Man<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ornstein confirmed that the medical is taking place this afternoon and that the goalkeeper is travelling to the UK.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Returning to England\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Sels has played in England before, when he was under contract at Newcastle United from 2016 to 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He made nine appearances for Newcastle United in their 2016\/17 title-winning Championship season, keeping four clean sheets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">However, when Newcastle got promoted to the Premier League, Sels was loaned out to R.S.C. Anderlecht on a season-long loan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The following summer, in 2018, Sels secured a move to Strasbourg, where he has played ever since.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Third Time Lucky for Matz Sels<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">As mentioned &#8211; Forest have already used Matt Turner and Odysseas Vlachodimos this season. However, both have consistently underperformed, leaving owner Evangelos Marinakis in a tricky situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Read More:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/01\/31\/nottingham-forest-players-afco\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Nottingham Forest Players at AFCON: The State of Play<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Sels\u2019 arrival will mean they have six first-team goalkeepers at the club. However, Ethan Horvath is reportedly on his way to Cardiff City, according to\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcgrathmike\/status\/1752980271765299574\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mike McGrath<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0of The Telegraph.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u2018Keen to play in the Premier League\u2019<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ornstein announced that the\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ligue1.com\/articles\/news\/2020\/07\/16\/strasbourg-achilles-blow-for-star-keeper-sels\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cstar keeper\u201d<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0has signed a three-and-a-half-year contract.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Sels is reportedly\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/live-blogs\/transfer-deadline-day-live-updates-latest-news\/3JLYksLcr8Gp\/howFkVD7Ixob\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201ckeen to play in the Premier League\u201d<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0and will be in contention to start Forest\u2019s match against AFC Bournemouth on Sunday, January 4.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Tricky Trees had looked at other goalkeeping options, such as Koen Casteels, according to Ornstein. However, they were unable to agree a deal with Wolfsburg.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to\u00a0David Ornstein, Matz Sels will join Nottingham Forest from Strasbourg on deadline day. Strasbourg and Nottingham Forest Agree Deal for Matz Sels Watch: Football Fans Are Being Lied To Belgium Keeper Will Move to Premier League Club On a Permanent Transfer The 31-year-old goalkeeper is set to move to Forest and become the third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5032,"featured_media":635336,"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":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4475,7,3],"tags":[22678,8664,4764],"class_list":["post-635305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nottingham-forest","category-ligue-1","category-premier-league","tag-matz-sels","tag-nottingham-forest-transfer-rumours","tag-rc-strasbourg"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635305","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\/5032"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}