Daniel Munoz gives “special” reason for joining Nottingham Forest as transfer fee, shirt number is revealed

Nottingham Forest person announced the signing of Colombia planetary Daniel Munoz from Crystal Palace.

The 30-year-old has penned a three-year declaration and moves to the City Ground successful a woody believed to beryllium worthy £22m.

Munoz volition deterioration the No.27 garment for Forest and has go the club’s sixth signing of the summertime aft Liam Delap, Ousmane Diomande, Xaver Schlager, Steven Benda and Gustavo Sa.

The close wing-back reunites with manager Oliver Glasner aft winning the Conference League, FA Cup and Community Sheild unneurotic with Crystal Palace.

“I’m truly excited due to the fact that I tin spot truthful overmuch talent, Forest is simply a squad with large players, large qualities and large skills connected the pitch.” Munoz told the club’s authoritative website. “I can’t hold to get retired determination truthful I tin assistance my caller teammates and I deliberation that we’re going to bash large things.

“The archetypal happening is that this is simply a winning club. I deliberation that erstwhile this is the expectation, the mentality, some for the absorption and the method team, and for the players, this makes it special. 

“It is simply a nine that’s fought hard successful caller years, it has competed hard, it got to the semi-finals of the Europa League and I deliberation it has adjacent greater objectives for the future, and truly this is what I similar astir Forest, and that’s wherefore I decided to travel here.”

Glasner is 1 “special” crushed wherefore Munoz has joined Forest

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Sharing his thoughts successful item connected Glasner arsenic a manager and the relation helium played to transportation him to articulation Forest, Munoz added: “I deliberation that Oliver Glasner is special.

“I person a precise bully narration with him and we did large things together, it was an incredibly peculiar period. What helium did with our erstwhile club, I person a batch of respect and a batch of admiration for him.

“He’s a tireless worker, he’s a winner, and I deliberation that’s a portion of the determination I’ve made – I cognize him and I cognize however helium works, however his assistants are, and truly they each person the aforesaid mentality and I’m connected the aforesaid wavelength. I person a beardown mentality, a winner’s mentality and this is important, evidently this is thing which had a large power connected my determination to travel here.

“When I enactment with him, I ever springiness everything to my work, I springiness everything of myself. I ever privation to propulsion myself possibly adjacent beyond what I’m susceptible of, and this is truly the peculiar ingredient, moving unneurotic with Oliver Glasner, due to the fact that of the quality qualities that helium has, that his assistants have.

“When we get onto the transportation there’s thing to say, it’s his mode of working, his mode of thinking, and of people arsenic a trainer helium ever wants to instrumentality things up a notch.

“I deliberation that this volition assistance maine to acceptable into the dressing country much easily, to acceptable successful connected the pitch. As a caller player, it’s a batch easier for maine and for my household if I articulation a squad that’s steadfast and friendly, 1 that’s similar a family.

“I’m truly excited due to the fact that I tin spot truthful overmuch talent, Forest is simply a squad with large players, large qualities and large skills connected the pitch, and I deliberation that we’re going to bash large things.”

Munoz departs Crystal Palace arsenic a nine legend

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Munoz departs Selhurst Park aft making a full of 148 appearances for Crystal Palace crossed each competitions, scoring 19 goals and providing 20 assists.

Aware that Munoz had entered the last 12 months of his contract, the Eagles opened the doorway for the wing-back’s exit by signing Anan Khalaili from Union Saint-Gilloise earlier this month.

Palace are understood to person secured a important nett connected a subordinate they signed for conscionable £8.5m successful January 2024. 

“Danny has fixed america galore magical moments down the years and rightly earned his spot successful the club’s past books,” president Steve Parish told Palace’s authoritative website. “Everybody astatine Selhurst Park acknowledgment him for his work and wishes him well.”

Munoz is acceptable to conflict with Ola Aina for regular starts astatine Forest and helium could marque his debut successful Saturday’s Premier League clash with Tottenham Hotspur astatine the City Ground.