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Emmanuel Dennis gets Nottingham Forest’s jersey number

Nottingham Forest has given Nigerian international Emmanuel Dennis the number 25 while also revealing the squad numbers for other recent add...

Chima Joseph Ugo
Chima Joseph Ugo - Editor-in-chief August 17, 2022
Updated August 17, 2022 at 2:48 PM
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Nottingham Forest has given Nigerian international Emmanuel Dennis the number 25 while also revealing the squad numbers for other recent additions Remo Freuler and Cheikhou Kouyate after the trio moved to the City Ground over the weekend.

After making an impression in the Premier League the previous season, Dennis moved from Championship team Watford; midfielder Freuler joined from Atalanta; and Kouyate joined on a free transfer after leaving Crystal Palace.

Right-back Mohamed Drager, 26, who has joined Swiss club FC Luzern on loan for the end of the season, wore Dennis' number 25 last year.

Players from Watford have claimed that they 'openly applauded' Dennis' transfer to Nottingham Forest.

The squad at Vicarage Road was happy to see him go, according to the Daily Mail.

After his departure, it is claimed that the dressing room "will be a considerably more amicable space."

The article also stated that other Watford players did not hesitate to express their joy once he had left.

Dennis, who just last summer joined the Hornets, scored ten goals during the relegation campaign.

Before committing to returning to the top division, he failed to score in either of his two Championship games this season.

In spite of his brief tenure with the national team organisation, the former Club Brugge player has a reputation for being contentious.

The 24-year-old controversially skipped the 2021 African Nations Cup (AFCON) in Cameroon earlier this year to concentrate on his club career much to the ire of football-loving Nigerians who demanded he never returns to the Super Eagles.

However, he was recalled by then Super Eagles interim coach Augustine Eguavoen for the Ill-fated World Cup doubled header against West African rivals Ghana in March and featured in the Super Eagles’ record 10-0 win over Sao Tome and Principe in an 2023 AFCON qualifiers in Morocco by Jose Peseiro in June where he scored his first international goal via a last minute penalty.

Dennis, meanwhile, will need to try and displace fellow Super Eagles forward Taiwo Awoniyi up front for Steve Cooper’s Forest.

The seven-cap Nigerian forward, who scored twice in the Bernabeu for Club Brugge in 2019, will have watched his compatriot Awoniyi score the winner in the 1-0 win over West Ham on Sunday.
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