Chris Wooden is hopeful of agreeing a brand new Nottingham Forest deal – after spearheading Nuno Espirito Santo’s facet’s beautiful begin to the season

Chris Wooden is hopeful of agreeing contemporary phrases with Nottingham Forest amid discussions over the size of a brand new contract for the membership’s high scorer.

The 33-year-old’s present deal expires on the finish of the marketing campaign which means that he’s free to agree a free switch transfer to an abroad membership from January 1, if he has not dedicated himself to Forest by then.

Mail Sport understands Forest’s preliminary supply was a one-year extension, with Wooden in search of at the least two. The ahead is assumed to earn about £100,000 per week and is likely one of the highest-paid gamers on the Metropolis Floor – a standing he’s naturally eager to retain.

There isn’t a blanket coverage at Forest relating to the size of offers provided to gamers over 30, with a participant’s health ranges, standing throughout the squad and efficiency taken into consideration.

Wooden’s 10 targets have helped raise Nuno Espirito Santo’s staff to fourth within the desk and supporters are dreaming of a Champions League marketing campaign subsequent season.

Wooden is having fun with his time at Forest and believes he can proceed to play at a excessive stage nicely into his thirties.

‘Individuals are taking part in for for much longer now,’ Wooden instructed Mail Sport in an unique interview in November. ‘They really feel ripe and robust at 35, 36. It is about mentality, diet. Individuals are consuming cleaner. There was an enormous consuming tradition 15 years in the past and it is not likely there anymore.

‘Should you return the Nineteen Eighties and Nineties, gamers had been out on a regular basis – that is simply the way it was. Possibly that is why folks retired at 32, 33. Individuals nonetheless say ‘when you’re 30, you are over the hill’, however it’s simply not the case.

‘Have a look at Jamie Vardy at 37, Robert Lewandowski at 36, Cristiano Ronaldo at 39. I really feel my greatest years are nonetheless forward of me. I am not eager about stopping at time quickly.

‘The Golden Boot can be pretty. I might have a look at it come March or April if I am nonetheless within the working, although we now have Erling Haaland and Mohamed Salah who’ve run away with it prior to now.’