Sporting have acquired an enquiry from Nottingham Forest for centre-back Ousmane Diomande.
Sources in Portugal say they’ve acquired expressions of curiosity from the Midlands membership for the Ivory Coast worldwide, 22, however they’ve stopped in need of an official bid.
Diomande is understood to have a £68.2m launch clause in his contract however may very well be obtainable for much less this summer time.
A number of sources say new Forest supervisor Oliver Glasner is driving any potential transfer and was eager on signing Diomande when beforehand in control of Crystal Palace.
Diomande has made greater than 150 senior first crew appearances regardless of his age, together with 15 appearances for his nationwide crew and an look on the World Cup this summer time.
He was additionally beforehand a goal for Chelsea and reportedly linked with a bunch of different golf equipment in Europe.
Forest have but to make any signings having narrowly prevented relegation to the Championship final season however have offered midfielder Elliot Anderson for £116m and David Carmo to Olympiacos for an undisclosed price.
