Nottingham Forest confirms player contracts: who stays, who goes
Harry Arter remains under contract with Forest Credit: Eddie Lennon (ETPhotos)
Nottingham Forest Football Club has published its retained list for the 2023/24 season, which comes in the aftermath of the completion of the 2022/23 Premier League season.
A total of six senior players have concluded their contracts with the club, and they are André Ayew, Cafú, Jack Colback, Jesse Lingard, Jordan Smith, and Lyle Taylor.
Nottingham Forest has also parted ways with six academy players: Billy Fewster, Alex Gibson-Hammond, Ryan Hammond, Nicky Hogarth, Adnan Kanurić, and Lewis Salmon.
Meanwhile, Serge Aurier, a defender for the club, has activated an automatic one-year extension to his contract.
Conversely, three loan players, Keylor Navas, Dean Henderson, and Renan Lodi, will head back to their respective parent clubs as their loan spells have concluded.
James Clarridge and Oliver Hammond, who are aged under 24, have been offered new contracts.
Below is the comprehensive list of players who will stay with the club:
Aged 24 or over under contract:
Harry Arter, Taiwo Awoniyi, Willy Boly, Josh Bowler, Steve Cook, Felipe, Emmanuel Dennis, Mohamed Dräger, Remo Freuler, Gustavo Scarpa, Wayne Hennessey, Ethan Horvath, Cheikhou Kouyaté, Richie Laryea, Orel Mangala, Scott McKenna, Moussa Niakhaté, Lewis O'Brien, Omar Richards, Jonjo Shelvey, Sam Surridge, Harry Toffolo, Hwang Ui-Jo, Joe Worrall, and Ryan Yates.
Aged under 24 under contract:
Brandon Aguilera, Fin Back, Giulian Biancone, Connor Brown, Aaron Donnelly, Danilo, Tyrese Fornah, Morgan Gibbs-White, Ben Hammond, Riley Harbottle, Brennan Johnson, Pharrell Johnson, Ateef Konaté, Julian Larsson, Loïc Mbe Soh, Jamie McDonnell, Alex Mighten, Braian Ojeda, Detlef Esapa Osong, Jonathan Panzo, George Shelvey, Dale Taylor, and Neco Williams.
The club has also mentioned the first-year scholarship players who are currently under contract: Zach Abbott, Kevin Adueni, Danny Anisjko, Tony Gbopo, Georgios Lemonakis, Henry Lister, Elijah Morgan, Theo Robinson, Faruq Smith, Joel Thompson, Archie Whitehall, and Keehan Willows.
