{"id":43087,"date":"2021-08-03T09:43:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T16:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=43087"},"modified":"2021-08-03T09:43:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T16:43:15","slug":"west-brom-nottingham-forest-race-to-sign-genk-star-mohammadi-on-free-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/08\/03\/west-brom-nottingham-forest-race-to-sign-genk-star-mohammadi-on-free-report\/","title":{"rendered":"West Brom &#038; Nottingham Forest race to sign Genk star Mohammadi on free [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>FootballInsider247.com &#8211; LONDON, <strong>Nottingham Forest, Watford, and West Brom have set their sights on signing Iran left-back Milad Mohammadi,\u00a0which Football Insider\u00a0can exclusively reveal.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 27-year-old is available on a free transfer from Gent as the Belgian outfit wants him off the wage bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A recruitment source has told\u00a0Football Insider<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>the defender\u2019s availability has drawn attention from across the top two tiers in England, as well as Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mohammadi has already turned down moves to AEK Athens and Ferencvaros this summer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full-back has entered the final year of his contract at Gent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>West Brom and Nottingham Forest both want Mohammadi to boost their Championship promotion hopes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Watford is preparing for a season back in the Premier League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hornets view the Gent star as an affordable and experienced option that could bolster their back line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mohammadi joined the Belgian side on a free transfer from Russian club Akhmat Grozny back in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has played 65 times for Gent to date, with 41 appearances under his belt last term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Able to play further up the pitch in a midfield role,\u00a0Mohammadi\u00a0contributed five assists in 29 league games last season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is also a well-established member of Iran\u2019s national side, with 37 caps under his belt so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>West Brom currently has Connor Townsend as their only recognized senior left-back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, new addition Adam Reach has featured as a makeshift left-sided defender on occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forest have both Gaeton Bong and Tyler Blackett to call on of the left-hand side of their defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Watford are looking for cover and competition for both Adam Masina and Danny Rose following the England international\u2019s arrival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FootballInsider247.com &#8211; LONDON, Nottingham Forest, Watford, and West Brom have set their sights on signing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":43088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":815,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43089,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43087\/revisions\/43089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}