Nottingham Forest are delighted to announce the appointment of Simon Hunt as the club’s Head of Scouting.

Hunt held the role as first-team scout at Tottenham Hotspur, working under managers Andre Villas Boas and Mauricio Pochettino at White Hart Lane.

As a player, he tuned out for Wrexham in the 1970s and also played in Sweden with IF Elfsborg and IF Brage among others, before stepping into management in Sweden with Brage and Kalmar FF.

A former assistant manager at Southampton, Hunt also worked at West Bromwich Albion as sporting and technical director, before carrying out the same role at Blackburn Rovers, and he now joins the set up at The City Ground with immediate effect.