{"id":357967,"date":"2026-01-08T00:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/357967\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T00:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:09:08","slug":"nottingham-forest-transfer-news-arnaud-kalimuendo-joins-eintracht-frankfurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/357967\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest transfer news: Arnaud Kalimuendo joins Eintracht Frankfurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Striker Arnaud Kalimuendo has joined Eintracht Frankfurt on an initial loan deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Bundesliga club have an option to make the move permanent for about \u00a323m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 23-year-old moved to the City Ground from Rennes in the summer for \u00a326m but has struggled to make an impact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He scored twice, both in the Europa League, in 14 appearances, but was behind Igor Jesus after Chris Wood was ruled out in October with a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cqxy9lnp8w2o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Forest are keen on Wolves forward Jorgen Strand Larsen<\/a> as they look for more firepower in January. Sean Dyche&#8217;s side are seven points above the relegation zone after Tuesday&#8217;s win at fellow strugglers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/west-ham-united\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Ham.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Frankfurt sporting director Markus Krosche said: &#8220;In Arnaud Kalimuendo, we&#8217;re signing a forward who, despite his young age, has performed at a consistently high level in Ligue 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He has pace, makes runs behind the defence and is a clinical finisher, and he also works really hard off the ball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was important for us that he was not only a very good fit in terms of the football he plays, but also in terms of his character.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Arnaud has the ambition to keep developing, and we are confident that he has the environment here to exploit his full potential.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Striker Arnaud Kalimuendo has joined Eintracht Frankfurt on an initial loan deal. The Bundesliga club have an option&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-357967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}