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New York Times
6 days ago
- Business
- New York Times
Nottingham Forest Transfer DealSheet: Summer window latest, key positions and available players
It will be another big window for Nottingham Forest this summer as they look to strengthen their squad for the additional challenge of competing in Europe for the first time in three decades, with Nuno Espirito Santo's side having earned a place in the final round of Conference League qualifiers. Making the league phase would mean six extra midweek games, so Forest want to add at least five additions to their squad — and are already making progress towards getting three over the line. Here, The Athletic looks at what to expect from them in this transfer window. One of the main changes in the dynamic this summer is the arrival of Edu in a senior role across the multi-club group overseen by Forest's owner Evangelos Marinakis. It remains to be seen how much of an influence the former Arsenal sporting director will have on Forest specifically, or whether his association with Kia Joorabchian will mean that the agent has any role to play in their recruitment process, but he is seen as a statement appointment. Advertisement Forest's recruitment in the past few windows has been impressive, and a lot of trust will remain with a recruitment team that is headed up by George Syrianos, the global technical director for Forest, Olympiacos in Greece and Portugal's Rio Ave. Head of recruitment Pedro Ferreira and chief football officer Ross Wilson will both also have an influence, as will head coach Nuno. Marinakis himself will have input, too. Forest want to add at least one, if not two, forwards to their attacking options, to provide competition and cover for Chris Wood and Taiwo Awoniyi. A versatile performer who could also operate across the three, as part of Nuno's favoured 4-2-3-1 formation, would be the preference for one of those additions. They will also look to sign a left-back, with no plans to renew/make permanent Alex Moreno's loan from Aston Villa and a question mark over Harry Toffolo, who is out of contract this summer. The club would like to add another winger to the squad, as well as another goalkeeper capable of being a quality backup option to Matz Sels. The injuries to strikers Wood and Awoniyi in the final stages of last season underlined the importance of adding to Forest's attacking options after they won only two of the last eight matches to miss out on a Champions League finish. Wood enjoyed a remarkable season, becoming the first 20-goal forward for Forest since Stan Collymore 20 years earlier. But he will also turn 34 in December. Awoniyi has also suffered more than his fair share of injury misfortune over the past few seasons, most recently when he ended up needing emergency surgery on an abdominal injury after colliding with the post trying to score a late winner in the draw with Leicester City on May 11. Nuno knows Forest have a strong starting XI but need to add more depth, especially as they prepare to add at least three months of midweek European football to their calendar. Forest are already close to completing their first piece of business, and it's a whopper in the form of a triple signing from Brazil's Botafogo, the current South American champions. They have initiated moves for forward Igor Jesus, left-back Cuiabano and centre-back Jair Cunha. Jesus is a 24-year-old who can also operate on either wing — exactly the brand of versatility that Nuno favours. He has scored seven goals and provided one assist in 23 games this season. He has four caps for Brazil, scoring one goal. He joined Botafogo from the United Arab Emirates side Shabab Al Ahli in 2024. Advertisement Cunha is a 6ft 5in central defender. Botafogo only signed the 20-year-old from fellow Brazilian side Santos in February, but the Brazil Under-20 international has already established himself as a first-team regular, making 16 appearances in all competitions. Cuiabano is a 22-year-old left-back or wing-back. He joined Botafogo from Gremio, another team in Brazil, in April 2024 and has scored two goals and provided three assists in 21 games this season. Forest were among the suitors for Liam Delap, who is expected to complete the final formalities of his £30million ($40.6m) move to Chelsea from relegated Ipswich Town. The club felt the 22-year-old would fit perfectly into their squad and their style of play under Nuno, but were always aware that there would be a fierce level of competition for his signature. There remains an interest in Yoane Wissa, the versatile Brentford forward Forest made an unsuccessful £22million bid for in January. Manchester City's attacking midfielder James McAtee is another who has been on the radar for some time, with Forest also holding an interest in him during the previous window at the start of the year. The 22-year-old has been left out of City's squad for the Club World Cup this summer, having previously found his Premier League opportunities limited. Forest will not be actively seeking takers for Morgan Gibbs-White but the future of their hugely influential attacking midfielder will nevertheless be one of the biggest talking points of the summer. Manchester City are interested as they look to bolster their No 10 options. Whether a deal can be agreed that persuades Forest to allow a player signed for £42.5million from Wolves in summer 2022 to move on remains to be seen. City also have other targets. And, while other clubs will continue to monitor Gibbs-White's position, it certainly is not set in stone that he will move, with his contract tying him to the club until 2027, but what happens with him will shape the rest of Forest's transfer business. Lyon, who previously signed Moussa Niakhate and Orel Mangala from Forest, have now been linked with both midfielder Danilo and goalkeeper Matt Turner, who has been on loan at Crystal Palace. Lyon, Palace and Botafogo are all part of the multi-club ownership group that are overseen by Eagle Football Holdings, headed up by American businessman John Textor. Advertisement There are a few more peripheral players whose status will be up in the air in the coming weeks, including Ramon Sosa, Toffolo, Willy Boly and Carlos Miguel. Like Toffolo, Boly is out of contract. Jota Silva, the Portuguese winger, has also found his opportunities limited but remains determined to prove himself at the City Ground. Wayne Hennessey, the backup goalkeeper, is another whose deal expires this summer. The 38-year-old could be offered a coaching role if he is not kept on the playing staff. There will also be question marks over many of the players coming back from loan spells at other clubs. Strasbourg hold an option to make Andrew Omobamidele's move permanent, but Matt Turner (Crystal Palace), Omar Richards (Rio Ave), Lewis O'Brien (Swansea City), Emmanuel Dennis (Blackburn Rovers) and Josh Bowler (Luton Town) will all return to the City Ground. Richards, O'Brien, Dennis and Bowler are going into the final year of their contracts. Forest also signed Marko Stamenic and David Carmo last summer, before immediately loaning them to sister club Olympiacos. It remains to be seen whether they will be off to Athens again next season. Forest are excited about the potential of central defender Tyler Bindon, the New Zealand international. He was signed in a £700,000 deal from Reading in February, before immediately being loaned back to the League One side, where he won their player of the season award. The 20-year-old will join up with Forest for pre-season training, before the club decide whether another loan might be the best way to continue his development. Young B team players such as Ben Perry (Northampton Town), Jamie McDonnell (Colchester United), Dale Taylor (Wigan Athletic) and Joe Gardner (Lincoln City) all benefited from loan spells at various levels of the EFL last season and could be farmed out again to continue their development. The wheels are already turning with that potential triple signing from Botafogo, while Forest did register their interest in Delap. Forest do not actively need to sell players to remain on the right side of PSR (profit and sustainability rules), with the club reporting a pre-tax profit of £12.1million in their most recent accounts, suggesting finances are in a reasonably healthy state. Marinakis is willing to fund the additions Forest need to create the strength in depth that will allow them to compete on several fronts next season. If Gibbs-White is sold in the coming weeks, it would further alter the dynamic, with any transfer fee they get for him likely to be reinvested in the first-team squad. (Top photos of Wissa, left, and McAtee: Getty Images)
Daily Mail
01-06-2025
- Business
- Daily Mail
Nottingham Forest close in on Botafogo trio after holding productive talks with Brazilian club
Nottingham Forest have held further productive talks over signing three Botafogo players. Those players are centre-back Jair Cunha, striker Igor Jesus and left-back Cuiabano. Cuiabano was a target for Brighton. Jesus, 24, was wanted by Forest in January. All three played in Sunday's 1-0 with over Santos and Mail Sport expects the deals to be completed following the Club World Cup. Forest attempted to sign Yoane Wissa from Brentford in January and could make another move for him in the summer. Wissa scored 19 non-penalty goals in the Premier League this season, which was level with Erling Halaand and Alexander Isak, and behind only Mohamed Salah 's 20. The arrival of Edu, working across Evangelos Marinakis' clubs, will strengthen ties to the Brazilian market. And that could see Juventus midfielder Douglas Luiz become an option, according to Mail Sport's Tom Collomosse. Manchester City playmaker James McAtee, who has had few minutes at the Etihad, is another they admire.
BBC News
23-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Arsenal executive Ayto to leave club
Arsenal assistant sporting director Jason Ayto is leaving the club, BBC Sport well-respected executive has decided to exit the Emirates Stadium ahead of the summer worked under former sporting director Edu and was promoted into the position of interim sporting director after Edu left in Ayto will leave the club in due course. Andrea Berta was appointed as Edu's successor in to follow
Indian Express
18-05-2025
- Business
- Indian Express
What is Codex, OpenAI's latest AI coding agent capable of multitasking?
OpenAI on Friday, May 16, introduced a new AI tool called Codex that is designed to handle multiple software engineering-related tasks at the same time, from generating code for new features to answering questions about a user's codebase, fixing bugs, and suggesting pull requests for code review The cloud-based, AI agent-driven coding tool runs these tasks in its own cloud sandbox environment that has been preloaded with a user's code repository. Codex has been released under research preview. However, all ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, and Team users have access to the AI coding tool. 'Users will have generous access at no additional cost for the coming weeks so you can explore what Codex can do, after which we'll roll out rate-limited access and flexible pricing options that let you purchase additional usage on-demand,' OpenAI said in a blog post. ChatGPT Plus and Edu customers will be given access at a later date, the Microsoft-backed AI startup added. today we are introducing codex. it is a software engineering agent that runs in the cloud and does tasks for you, like writing a new feature of fixing a bug. you can run many tasks in parallel. — Sam Altman (@sama) May 16, 2025 OpenAI's latest offering comes at a time when AI is poised to disrupt the software engineering sector, raising widespread fears of job displacement. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently said that 30 per cent of the company's code is now AI-generated. A few weeks later, the tech giant announced it is laying off 6,000 employees or 3 per cent of its workforce, with programmers reportedly being impacted the most. 'It still remains essential for users to manually review and validate all agent-generated code before integration and execution,' OpenAI noted in its Codex announcement blog post. With Codex, developers can delegate simple programming tasks to an AI agent. It has its own unique interface that can be accessed from the side bar in the ChatGPT web app. Codex is powered by codex-1, an AI model that is a variation of OpenAI's o3 reasoning model. Except that codex-1 has been specifically trained on a wide range of real-world coding tasks to analyse and generate code 'that closely mirrors human style and PR preferences, adheres precisely to instructions.' Its outputs have further been fine-tuned using reinforcement learning so that codex-1 can 'iteratively run tests until it receives a passing result.' In terms of performance and accuracy, OpenAI said that codex-1 fared better than its o3 AI model when evaluated on its internal SWE benchmark as well as the company's human-validated version of it (SWE-bench Verified). Codex can read and edit files as well as run commands including test harnesses, linters, and type checkers. It typically takes anywhere between one minute to 30 minutes to complete a task depending on the difficulty level, as per OpenAI. The AI coding agent performs each task in a distinct, isolated environment that is preloaded with the user's codebase serving as context. 'Like human developers, Codex agents perform best when provided with configured dev environments, reliable testing setups, and clear documentation,' OpenAI said. Users can make Codex work more effectively for them by including files placed within their repository. 'These are text files, akin to where you can inform Codex how to navigate your codebase, which commands to run for testing, and how best to adhere to your project's standard practices,' OpenAI further said. Another unique feature of Codex is that it shows its thinking and work with every step as it goes about completing the task(s). In the past, several developers have pointed out that AI coding agents produce coding scripts that do not follow standards and are difficult to debug. 'Codex provides verifiable evidence of its actions through citations of terminal logs and test outputs, allowing you to trace each step taken during task completion,' OpenAI said. Once Codex completes a task, it commits its changes in its environment. However, users can also review the results, request further revisions, open a GitHub pull request, or directly make changes in the local development environment. In order for Codex to start generating code, users need to enter a prompt and click on 'code'. If they want the AI coding agents to answer questions or provide suggestions, then users need to select the 'ask' option before submitting the prompt. When OpenAI opened up early access to Codex for external partners, they used the AI coding agent tool to accelerate feature development, debug issues, write and execute tests, and refactor large codebases. Another early tester used Codes to speed up small but repetitive tasks like improving test coverage and fixing integration failures.' It can also be used to write debugging tools and help developers understand unfamiliar parts of the codebase by surfacing relevant context and past changes. OpenAI developers are also using Codex internally for refactoring, renaming, and writing tests as well as scaffolding new features, wiring components, fixing bugs, and drafting documentation. 'Based on learnings from early testers, we recommend assigning well-scoped tasks to multiple agents simultaneously, and experimenting with different types of tasks and prompts to explore the model's capabilities effectively,' the company said. In April this year, OpenAI launched another AI coding agent tool called Codex CLI. It is said to be an open-source, command-line tool capable of reading, modifying, and running code locally on a user's terminal. The coding agent integrates OpenAI's models with the client's command-line interface (CLI) used to run programmes, manage files, and more. Codex CLI is powered by OpenAI's latest o4-mini model by default. However, users can choose their preferred OpenAI model via the Responses API option. Codex CLI can only run on macOS and Linux systems for now, with support for Windows still in the experimental stage. In Friday's blog post, OpenAI also announced updates to Codex CLI. A smaller version of codex-1 is coming to Codex CLI. 'It's available now as the default model in Codex CLI and in the API as codex-mini-latest,' OpenAI said. The company has also simplified the developer log-in process for Codex CLI. Instead of having to manually generate and configure an API token, developers can now use their ChatGPT account to sign into Codex CLI and select the API organisation they want to use. 'Plus and Pro users who sign in to Codex CLI with ChatGPT can also begin redeeming $5 and $50 in free API credits, respectively, later today for the next 30 days,' OpenAI said.
The Citizen
17-05-2025
- Business
- The Citizen
Arteta ready to smash Arsenal transfer budget to sign striker
Arsenal are believed to have at least £100 million ($132 million) at their disposal for new players. Mikel Arteta is willing to break Arsenal's transfer budget in a bid to land a star striker to spearhead their Premier League title challenge next season. Arteta's side have now gone five years without a trophy as they approach the end of a frustrating campaign marred by injuries to key forwards Kai Havertz, Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Jesus. ALSO READ: High expectations unfair on new Chelsea, says Maresca That trio, as well as influential midfielder Martin Odegaard, all missed substantial chunks of the season as Arsenal failed to keep pace with Premier League champions Liverpool before losing the Champions League semi-final against Paris Saint-Germain. A new striker is top of Arteta's wish-list with Havertz, who has not played for almost four months, still the club's top scorer in the league with just nine goals. Arsenal are believed to have at least £100 million ($132 million) at their disposal for new players and have been linked with RB Leipzig's Benjamin Sesko, Sporting Lisbon's Viktor Gyokeres and Newcastle's Alexander Isak. After failing to lure England striker Ollie Watkins from Aston Villa during the January transfer window, Arteta is willing to do whatever it takes to get a new striker in the summer. 'The thing is that the budget is like when you have your wedding, you plan your wedding with your wife and you give her a budget and never less, and it's always more,' Arteta told reporters on Friday. 'When you build a house it's always more. Normally this happens. And you prepare for different scenarios. Then unfortunate things happen. Sometimes we want a player and suddenly we have an injury or that player gets injured. 'There are so many variables that can happen but there is a budget. There is always an idea of what we can do, what we can improve, what the priorities are going to be and then let's see if we can do it.' Amid speculation this week that Arteta and Arsenal sporting director Andrea Berta, who replaced Edu in March, have disagreed over which striker to pursue, the manager insisted their relationship is fine. 'Well, if that happens, that means that we cannot explain ourselves well enough, and we are not clear enough on what we want, and I guarantee you that hasn't happened,' he said. 'It didn't happen in five and a half years with Edu, and I guarantee you it hasn't happened with Andrea. 'We have learned a lot and some of them (transfers) have worked really well and others have not. So we have to make sure that we make the right calls. 'But we are all human beings and unfortunately, nobody has got a crystal ball here. 'But Andrea is someone who is very driven, very clear in his ideas, in his vision and how we want to achieve it.' Second-placed Arsenal, who host third-placed Newcastle on Sunday, head into the final two matches of the season needing just two points to be assured of Champions League qualification. However, with their superior goal difference, one point should be enough for Arsenal to secure a top-five finish.
