Nottingham Forest technical director Francois Modesto has spoken about the club’s transfer plans involving Greek side Olympiacos.
Modesto has officially been working with the Reds since the summer, and says he plans to focus more on transfer dealings at the City Ground.
The former midfielder was announced as the Reds’ technical director in the summer, while fellow Frenchman Jose Anigo was unveiled as the club’s head of international recruitment.
Modesto's focus is on the recruitment for the first-team, having a technical role, while director of football Kyriakos Dourekas will focus on the operational side.
Both Modesto and Anigo are understood to have already been working at the club for some time before their appointments were confirmed, with Modesto playing an important role in the arrival of Sabri Lamouchi and working closely with him since.
It is believed Modesto played a key role in Forest’s summer transfer window targets, and the Frenchman is already looking ahead to see how the Reds can strengthen in future transfer windows.
“For the past three years, I’ve been working with Olympiacos on recruiting, and since the president, Evangélos Marinákis also bought Nottingham Forest, I’ve been working on both club,” said Modesto in a translated interview with So Foot earlier this month.
He added: “Since January, I’ve been travelling between both, but I’m going to be [in Nottingham] more from now on.
“Everything is pretty much done at Olympiacos. We need to do the same here.
“They’re two very different clubs with different styles, but if we have a player here that isn’t at his best, we can send him to the other to kickstart things again, if that pleases both managers of course.
“We did it with Bouchalakis and Soudani already”.
Midfielder Andreas Bouchalakis joined Olympiacos in the summer of 2018 while striker Hilal Soudani also signed a permanent deal with the Greek outfit in June.
