Nottingham Forest poised to sign Portugal winger Jota Silva for initial €7m

Nottingham Forest are poised to sign the Portuguese winger Jota Silva from Vitória de Guimarães on a four-year contract for €7m (£5.9m) plus add-ons.

The deal will reach €12m if the forward plays more than 15 games and scores 10 goals and the Portuguese club also have a 20% of sell-on clause.

Jota is the sixth addition to Nuno Espírito Santo’s squad this summer after Carlos Miguel, Nikola Milenkovic, Eric da Silva Moreira, Elliot Anderson and Marko Stamenic.

Jota made 83 appearances for Vitória over two seasons, scoring 20 goals, having joined in June 2022 from Casa Pia.

Likened to Jack Grealish, the winger scored 15 in last season’s breakthrough campaign. He was called up to Roberto Martínez’s Portugal squad, winning his first caps in the March friendlies against Sweden and Slovenia.

Jota, who turned 25 on Thursday, had been the subject of firm interest from the Russian side Krasnodar and Greece’s Panathanaikos. It was thought West Ham might be a suitor but their interest cooled and they are in for Leeds’ Dutch winger Crysencio Summerville.

Jota comes in after Nuno highlighted Forest’s lack of depth in wide areas last month. “Everyone can see we need wingers,” the manager said. “The only natural wingers we have are Callum [Hudson-Odoi] and Anthony [Elanga].”