Former Nottingham Forest manager Dougie Freedman has told the Nottingham Post that he regrets his decision to sell winger Michail Antonio to West Ham.
With Forest in financial turmoil and under a transfer embargo, then manager Dougie Freedman made the decision to sell the player for £7m to the Hammers leaving Forest short of attacking options. When looking back on the decision, Freedman has admitted that the sale of Michail Antonio is something which he deeply regrets.
“Michail Antonio was a decision which, maybe looking back, I regret” admitted Freedman “But I think at the time, with this financial thing over our heads, we had to make a decision and Fawaz, to be fair to him, let me make the decision, and we had to sell Michail Antonio, which dented us. But the recruitment policy we put in place, with free transfers and loans, I felt was the right thing to do.”
Nottingham Forest have struggled for goalscoring form since Michail Antonio’s departure.