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We asked for your views on what one thing needs to change at Nottingham Forest before the new campaign and why.

Here are some of your comments:

John: Keeping the group of the current team has to be fundamental to continuing the impressive last 10 Premier League matches. We cannot start over with the heart of the team ripped out. The spine needs to stay; Gibbs-White, Anderson, Murillo and Sels just have to remain. Then get that main stand replaced and construction started. This will demonstrate the club's ambitions fully!

Kevin: Avoid the chaos of last season! A settled manager, a settled squad and get rid of Edu.

Matt: Unity. We need a united front between Vitor and the club for our summer transfer strategy. The quicker the incomings and outgoings are sorted, the better our pre-season training will be. I fear this will all hinge on the sale of Anderson, who I would love to stay, but realistically we'll need the sale to reinvest in the squad and the sooner the better.

Mossy: After the whistle was blown at the last game against Bournemouth, the next sound should have been bulldozers starting up to make a start on developing the stadium, years wasted on talks with the council will cost the club eventually. Mr Marinakis should have built a stadium elsewhere in Nottingham.

Ollie: Recruitment - simply put, Forest need to get the recruitment right in the summer to drive on up the table and achieve another taste of European football. With everything that's gone on with Edu and the signings made last summer, the players signed seemed to be for a certain style, and not one that suits the current team. I'm expecting some movement with the squad, but whatever that amounts to, it needs to be spot on, with a new striker being the priority.

David: We need to get on the front foot earlier this summer and bring in players to strengthen the squad in good time to allow the coaching staff to work with the whole squad as a group before the season begins. Last year we were too slow and too late and made some questionable signings which seemed to be panic-driven.

Edward: Get all the transfer business agreed and done as early as possible so there can be a calm, uneventful and transformative pre-season. We all know what happens when that isn't the case.

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Lina Souloukou is to step down from her role as chief executive of Nottingham Forest.

Souloukou has been in the position since January 2025.

In a club statement, Souloukou said: "It has been an honour to serve as the chief executive of Nottingham Forest. I have enjoyed my time here enormously and feel that we have made incredible progress under the ownership of Evangelos Marinakis."

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The fee Nottingham Forest may eventually receive for Elliot Anderson may be "slightly deflated" because of there being a "one-buyer market" for the midfielder, says The i's chief football writer Daniel Storey.

Manchester City had had an opening bid for Anderson rejected by Nottingham Forest on Wednesday, but there is a growing expectation the 23-year-old will leave the City Ground this summer.

A potential fee could be a record for a British player and eclipse the £105m Arsenal paid West Ham for Declan Rice in 2023.

"We have created an environment to let an exceptional footballer be the best version of himself, better than anyone thought he would be," Storey told BBC Radio Nottingham's Shut Up And Show More Football podcast.

"One of the problems Forest have is they simultaneously want the fee to be as high as possible, which is absolutely right, and also would like a bit of a bidding war.

"Premier League clubs now selling at high prices generally takes out the world outside England bar two or three teams. There has never been reported interest from Bayern Munich or Real Madrid or Barcelona so we have a Premier League market."

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Storey continued: "Manchester United were really keen but they have two or probably three midfielders to buy so I don't think they can go as high as the fee would be. So, effectively, we have a one-buyer market, which is Manchester City. In a one-buyer market, it is hard to avoid the fee being slightly deflated than what you'd like as City can wait it out and do their business towards the end of the window.

"But, City may well also want to do business early and the fee, even if it is slightly deflated, I think will still be at least £90m which is an enormous amount of money.

"We know he's going, we know he has to go, but it's all about how Forest replace him. It's hard to do when he's still at the club as it shows they're really happy to sell Anderson and then the fee drops a little again.

"There has been no sense of him kicking up a fuss, he seems a really good guy, so we are now just in that negotiation phase. My gut feeling is it will be around £100m which somehow both doesn't feel quite enough but is also more than double what Forest have ever sold a player for."

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A new episode of BBC Radio Nottingham's Shut Up And Show More Football podcast is now available to listen to and download on BBC Sounds.

David Jackson talks to journalist and Forest fan Daniel Storey before he heads to the USA to cover the World Cup.

Hear his thoughts on Elliot Anderson's inclusion in Thomas Tuchel's England Squad, the prospect of his move to Manchester City this summer, and Morgan Gibbs-White's exclusion despite an excellent season.

Listen below or on BBC Sounds here - and don't forget to subscribe to get each episode into your My Sounds feed.

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Looking just at the 20 clubs that made up the 2025-26 Premier League, only this season's top three have more players at the World Cup than Conference League winners Crystal Palace (12).

Including players out on loan over the season, Sunderland remarkably have as many representatives on the global stage as Chelsea and Liverpool (11), showing just how globe-trotting their recruitment was following promotion last summer.

The majority of Brentford, Everton and Leeds' squads can put their feet up and recharge their batteries for next season, with those clubs sending just four players each.

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The 2026-27 Premier League season will be here before we know it, with the first matches taking place on Saturday, 22 August.

We have a simple question for you - what one thing needs to change at your club before the new campaign and why?

It can be a player, manager, ticketing issue, owner, or wider change.

Let us know in detail here