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Nottingham Forest have been fairly quiet in the transfer market so far, but they have been linked with numerous players. Kenny Burns says the club need proven Championship performers.

As you would expect under new owners, Nottingham Forest have been linked with numerous players already.

I see we were linked with Barrie McKay , the boy from Rangers the other day, and it remains to be seen whether the club makes a move for him.

We've also been linked with some Greek players and I've pretty much said it before that foreign players at Forest at this level haven't worked out.

The ones Phillipe Montanier signed were absolutely dreadful and even when you go back before him, there's not been too many success stories.

In fact, I would go as far to say that the last brilliant foreign player Forest signed was Johnny Metgod.

It hasn't worked out for any of them and you would hope the club has learned the lesson in that respect.

What Forest need are established Championship players who knows what it takes to succeed at this level.

It's a tough league and I would even be against signing players from Premier League clubs too especially if they are the younger ones.

Some of them come with a bad attitude and that's something which hasn't worked out either.

I remember Aaron Ramsey signing but he never did much in the time he was here.