Nottingham Forest defender Baba Fernandes is being monitored by a number of clubs in the Championship ahead of his release from the Nigel Doughty Academy.
Fernandes is set to leave the Forest academy set-up having struggled to break into the first-team set-up. The 22-year-old central defender trained with the senior squad in pre-season before the 2021/22 campaign and featured in the Reds' Carabao Cup fixtures against Bradford City and Wolves, but players such as Jonathan Panzo and Loic Mbe Soh have been ahead of him in the pecking order as well as the emergence of Under-18s defender Pharrell Johnson.
The young defender has been a fairly regular feature in the Reds' Under-23s squad this season, contributing one goal in 15 appearances, as they finished fourth in the Premier League 2 Division 2 standings and were beaten 2-0 by Stoke City in the play-offs.
