{"id":426260,"date":"2026-01-22T17:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/426260\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T17:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:13:08","slug":"italy-striker-lorenzo-lucca-joins-nottingham-forest-on-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/426260\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy striker Lorenzo Lucca joins Nottingham Forest on loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nottingham Forest has added some help up front.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fabrizio Romano reports Italy striker Lorenzo Lucca is set to join the team on loan from Napoli.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The loan will cost Forest \u20ac1 million and the deal comes with a \u20ac40 million purchase option that is not mandatory.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83c\udf33 Lorenzo Lucca to Nottingham Forest, here we go! Loan deal from Napoli for initial \u20ac1m loan fee.<\/p>\n<p>Buy option clause not mandatory worth up to \u20ac40m package.<\/p>\n<p>Lucca, set to travel today to England to join <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NFFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#NFFC<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O4B6LiXV97\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/O4B6LiXV97<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/2014355842653405288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of Moncalieri, Lucca was technically on loan with Napoli from Udinese with a \u20ac26 million purchase obligation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He\u2019s appeared in 23 matches across all competitions this season, scoring twice. Lucca had 12 goals in 33 Serie A appearances for Udinese last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Internationally, the 6-foot-7 Lucca has been capped five times by the Azzurri after making his senior debut in the fall of 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With two matches remaining in the first phase, Forest sits 11th in Europa League on 11 points. They visit seventh-place Braga later on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">At home, Forest is struggling this season. Sean Dyche\u2019s side is in 17th place, the final safe spot, and only five points clear of the drop zone. They return to Premier League action on Sunday with a visit to seventh-place Brentford.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest has added some help up front. Fabrizio Romano reports Italy striker Lorenzo Lucca is set to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[712,49,48,178104,178103,561,82],"class_list":["post-426260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lorenzo-lucca-sports-soccer-player-player-statscom-1283926","tag-nottingham-forest-sports-soccer-team-team-statscom-7133","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}