If Nottingham Forest pass your vision these days only when they have a big cup tie, you will barely recognise them from this time last year. On Saturday Forest play Chelsea in the third round of the FA Cup, facing the holders just as they did 12 months ago when they played Arsenal. But just about the only things that remain the same at the City Ground these days are the colour of the shirt and the sense that things will not remain the same for much longer.
Of the players who beat Arsenal a year ago, inflicting Arsène Wenger’s only third-round defeat, just two – Ben Osborn and Matty Cash – remain at the club. Since then 24 players have arrived and, by one means or another, 26 have left. There are two names on both of those lists, the goalkeeper Stefanos Kapino and forward Ashkan Dejagah having signed but barely stayed long enough to muddy their boots.
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