{"id":656508,"date":"2025-07-04T17:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T21:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=656508"},"modified":"2025-07-04T17:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T21:13:13","slug":"callum-hudson-odoi-nottingham-forest-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/07\/04\/callum-hudson-odoi-nottingham-forest-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest Hold Positive Contract Talks for \u00a382k P\/W \u2018Complete Player\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Nottingham Forest impressed many with their Premier League campaign in 2024\/25, only missing out on Champions League football on the final day of the season. Forest <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">have<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> yet to announce any new arrivals, with <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/07\/03\/newcastle-united-anthony-elanga\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Anthony Elanga<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> linked with a potential move to Newcastle. <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/transfer-centre\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Dharmesh Sheth<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> of Sky Sports has reported that the Tricky Trees have held positive talks with Callum Hudson-Odoi&#8217;s<\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">representatives regarding a new contract.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Nottingham Forest Contract Talks With Hudson Odoi and Transfer Latest<\/h2>\n<h3>Discussions Over New Deal<\/h3>\n<p>The career of Hudson-Odoi was looking uncertain at Chelsea before he made the move to Nottingham Forest. Since moving to the City Ground, Odoi has become a key player in Nuno Espirito Santo&#8217;s squad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/06\/28\/nottingham-forest-samuel-mbangula-tim-weah\/\" target=\"_self\">Nottingham Forest \u2018Leave Negotiations\u2019 for \u2018Highly Talented Youngster\u2019 After Tim Weah Deal Collapse<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dharmesh Sheth reveals that several Premier League and Serie A clubs have asked to be kept informed of any developments in case Hudson-Odoi becomes available. Forest will be desperate to keep Elanga and Odoi, but at least one of them.<\/p>\n<h3>The Future of Callum Hudson-Odoi<\/h3>\n<p>The discussions have been described as positive, which will be music to the ears of Forest fans, with Odoi entering the final year of his contract.<\/p>\n<p>Odoi has previously been described as a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghamforest.news\/2025\/05\/13\/murillo-shares-what-hes-always-thought-about-callum-hudson-odoi-at-nottingham-forest\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">complete player<\/a>&#8221; who is earning a reported <a href=\"https:\/\/salarysport.com\/football\/player\/callum-hudson-odoi\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a382,000<\/a> per week. The pace and directness of Odoi have seen him receive widespread praise. His characteristics make him a perfect fit for Nuno Espirito Santo&#8217;s team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/06\/23\/nottingham-forests-stadium-redevelopment\/\" target=\"_self\">Nottingham Forest Stadium Redevelopment Latest Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During his time at Chelsea, Hudson-Odoi struggled with injuries, including a <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/football\/premier-league\/callum-hudson-odoi-injury-chelsea-news-ruptured-achilles-injury-how-long-recovery-twitter-post-a8881916.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ruptured Achilles<\/a> that he never seemed to fully recover from, while at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Hudson-Odoi appeared in 36 games in all competitions for the Tricky Trees, scoring five goals, while providing three assists. It remains to be seen if the 24-year-old will be at the City Ground long-term, but it&#8217;s clear the ex-Chelsea man is finally starting to fulfil his potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nottingham Forest impressed many with their Premier League campaign in 2024\/25, only missing out on Champions League football on the final day of the season. Forest have yet to announce any new arrivals, with Anthony Elanga linked with a potential move to Newcastle. Dharmesh Sheth of Sky Sports has reported that the Tricky Trees have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":654664,"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":[30,4475],"tags":[2917,9474],"class_list":["post-656508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nottingham-forest","tag-callum-hudson-odoi","tag-nottingham-forest-news"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656508","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\/4106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656508"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656512,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656508\/revisions\/656512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}