Nottingham Forest have completed the signing of Brazilian defender Jair Cunha from Botafogo.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old has signed a five-year deal at the City Ground until at least the summer of 2030.<\/p>\n
Cunha joined Botafogo in February and played at the Club World Cup, scoring in the 2-1 win against Seattle Sounders.<\/p>\n
He is Forest’s second signing from Botafogo inside a week after Brazilian striker Igor Jesus joined for a reported \u00a310m.<\/a><\/p>\n “Jair is a young talent who has shown quality during his time in Brazil, and we are happy to have secured his signature,” said Forest chief football officer Ross Wilson.<\/p>\n “Jair has flourished in Brazil and now has new ambitions as he moves to the Premier League. We know he will be warmly welcomed into the group here in Nottingham.”<\/p>\n Cunha started his career at Santos where he made 24 appearances for the club before joining Botafogo.<\/p>\n He has eight appearances for Brazil at under-20 level, helping his nation win the U20 South America Championship earlier this year.<\/p>\n Cunha’s arrival comes as Forest ponder exits for Anthony Elanga and Morgan Gibbs-White.<\/p>\n Newcastle have agreed a \u00a355m deal<\/a> with Forest for Sweden winger Elanga, while Tottenham are hoping to sign<\/a> England midfielder Gibbs-White for \u00a360m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest have completed the signing of Brazilian defender Jair Cunha from Botafogo. The 20-year-old has signed a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-1723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}