Forest owner hints that deal to sell club is done
Nottingham Forest owner Fawaz Al Hasawi has dropped a series of hints that he may have sold the struggling Championship club.
Al Hasawi took to Twitter last night (Wednesday 2nd) to post a series of tweets that looked distinctly like a “goodbye” to Forest fans.
The Forest owner and chairman was reported to be close to agreeing a £50m sale to an American consortium led by John Jay Moores, the former owner of Major League Baseball franchise San Diego Padres.
Moores has long held an ambition to own an English club and held talks with Everton earlier this year but the move fell through.
Reports say that Al-Hasawi, who bought the club in July 2012, has been in negotiations with Moores for the past three months with the pair thrashing out a price of around £50m.
Forest are just one point above the relegation zone in the Championship with just four wins in 15 games this season.
That deal could have been struck yesterday, as Al Hasawi posted a series of cryptic tweets on his account that culminated with:
I hope that after the new takeover things would turn out as planned. #nffc
— @FAWAZ_ALHASAWI (@fawaz_alhasawi1) November 2, 2016
