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Marseille are interested in re-signing Nuno Tavares during the January transfer window, football.london understands. The Portuguese youth international has been out of favour at Nottingham Forest and failed to break into new manager Nuno Espirito Santo’s plans.
He has started the past two games for Forest whilst they deal with a loss of a number of players to the African Cup of Nations. Moussa Niakhate, Willy Boly, Ola Aina, Serge Aurier, Ibrahim Sangare and Cheikhou Kouyate are all away with their respective nations.
When they return, Tavares will almost certainly be back out of the side again with Aina starting the previous two matches before leaving for the Ivory Coast. The 23-year-old was signed for around £8million in 2021 but since has been pushed further down in Mikel Arteta’s pecking order after the arrivals of Takehiro Tomiyasu, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Jakub Kiwior and Jurrien Timber.
There is no recall clause in Tavares’ loan agreement with Nottingham Forest, football.londonunderstands and so the clubs would need to come to an agreement over the termination of the deal. This would be unlikely to be sorted until the East Midlands club see some of their African players return from the tournament and with a FA Cup fourth-round tie with Bristol City on January 26 it would likely be a late call.
Arsenal visit the City Ground on January 30 and Tavares would be ineligible for the game. Harry Toffolo would be the obvious choice amongst an even further restricted choice of options for Espirito Santo.
Marseille signed Tavares on loan for the entirety of last season. He played 31 Ligue 1 games scoring six goals but failing to convince OM to make the move permanent in the summer.
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