BBC pundit Chris Sutton has praised Nottingham Forest manager Steve Cooper for handling the "outrageous" number of new signings made this season.
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After being promoted to the Premier League, the club spent big in the summer on a series of new transfers for players such as Jesse Lingard, Taiwo Awoniyi, Neco Williams, and Emmanuel Dennis. This winter, Forest then went and added even more new players to their ranks, taking their total number of incomings across the last two transfer windows to a whopping 30 (via ESPN). Despite all the chaos of players coming and going, Cooper has managed to keep the ship steady this season and guided the team to an important 1-0 home win over Leeds United on the weekend. In reaction to it all, while speaking live on BBC 606, Sutton praised the manager, saying: "It's sort of outrageous, the amount of players that Nottingham Forest have signed, isn't it? "But the end justifies the means and Steve Cooper has done an amazing job gelling all these players together."Who next?
The win at the weekend saw Forest beat potential relegation rivals Leeds, moving them up to 13th in the table with 24 points after 21 games – six points above the bottom three. Incidentally, in that game, Forest handed out a debut to one of the club's new key signings Keylor Navas who joined on loan from PSG until the end of the season.Seeing as Navas is the latest example of Cooper managing his ever-changing squad admirably, it's only right that the Forest manager earns his own plaudits from the media too.