Nottingham Forest: Reds struck gold on signing who was sold for 200% more
Nottingham Forest hit the jackpot with the signing of this 5 foot 10 marksman.
Recent years have not been kind to Nottingham Forest’s astute transfer deals, with the Premier League club suffering losses as a result.
This was especially important during the previous season’s window since Evangelos Marinakis used his war chest of money like a child in a candy store, choosing anything and everything he could get his hands on.
As Jesse Lingard, Jonjo Shelvey, and Andre Ayew had a miserable time on Trentside and scored only two goals between them, the most of the staggering 30 signings that came through the door turned out to be terrible. However, the arrival of three standout players—in particular, Taiwo Awoniyi, Orel Mangala, and Morgan Gibbs-White—saved their season.
Awoniyi, the first of those three, is the one who supplies the explosiveness in the final third, scoring double figures in the top division and opening this season with three out of six.
The agreement to sign the Nigerian to the team has proven to be a successful commercial move, and the 2014 signing of Britt Assombalonga was another sniper who had an impact at the City Ground.
How much did Nottingham Forest pay for Britt Assombalonga?
The 5 foot 10 marksman, who had gone through Watford’s academy, started working there as a 19-year-old in 2011. However, it was during a loan stint at Southend in the 2012–13 season that he would become the league’s first goalscorer.
Assombalonga amassed an impressive 15 goals in League Two, which sparked attention from a number of clubs. Peterborough ultimately won the competition for his services and broke their transfer record by paying £1.25 million for the Englishman.
The Posh have made a habit out of signing undervalued strikers, developing them into goal-scoring machines and selling them on for huge profits in the future – Assombalonga would soon follow that trend.
After netting 33 goals in 58 appearances for Peterborough, proving himself a reliable presence in the lower tiers of English football, the prying hands of Nottingham Forest swooped in for the striker and took a chance on the 21-year-old in 2014, joining for a reported fee of just £5m alongside Michail Antonio.
How many goals did Assombalonga score for Forest?
A solid and reliable goalscorer in the lower echelons of the football league, Assombalonga would step up his goal-scoring prowess in the Championship, taking the mantle of being the main man through the middle.
