{"id":18147,"date":"2026-02-02T20:37:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T20:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=18147"},"modified":"2026-02-02T20:37:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T20:37:31","slug":"nottingham-forest-transfer-news-defender-luca-netz-signs-from-monchengladbach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=18147","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest transfer news: Defender Luca Netz signs from Monchengladbach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/nottingham-forest\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Nottingham Forest<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> have signed defender Luca Netz from Borussia Monchengladbach.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The left-back has penned a four-and-a-half-year deal at the City Ground on deadline day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will offer competition for Neco Williams after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c0mk38lwm2jo\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Oleksandr Zinchenko&#8217;s loan from Arsenal was cancelled for him to join Ajax. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The move comes after Forest, 17th in the Premier League, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cedw74ypqldo\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">failed with three bids for Celtic midfielder Arne Engels. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Netz said: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/nottingham-forest\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Nottingham Forest<\/a> is a great club with a unique history. The chance to play for this club in the Premier League immediately excited me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am ready for a new challenge and the next step in my career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Netz came through the academy at Hertha Berlin and joined Gladbach in 2021, playing 124 times for them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The German made his Bundesliga debut for Hertha at 17 and has 17 caps for Germany&#8217;s Under-21s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forest&#8217;s global head of football Edu Gaspar said: &#8220;A part of the model is to add talented young players to the squad that can grow with us. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Despite his age, Luca has played well over 100 times at the highest level in Germany, so we are signing a player with a good blend of potential and experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With the ability to play on the left side, Luca brings balance to our team and we are all looking forward to see him settle in Nottingham and contribute for the rest of the season and beyond.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Nottingham #Forest #transfer #news #Defender #Luca #Netz #signs #Monchengladbach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nottingham Forest have signed &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}