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Nottingham Forest’s bid to sign goalkeeper Costel Pantilimon is reportedly being delayed by Watford suffering a transfer blow.

The Reds are keen to bring back the Romanian after his successful loan spell at the City Ground last season.

And his parent club are also willing to allow Pantilimon to make a permanent switch .

But any move has apparently been put on hold for the time being due to the Hornets’ plans being disrupted.

(Image: JMS Photography/Mark Fear)

Javier Gracia’s side had hoped to secure the signature of Orestic Karnezis, who spent last term on loan at Vicarage Road from Udinese, in a £1m deal.

But the Mirror claims 32-year-old Karnezis is set to stay in Italy, with Napoli hijacking Watford’s attempt to sign him – putting Pantilimon’s move to Forest on hold in the process.

The 31-year-old spent the second half of last season with the Reds, having been signed by Aitor Karanka on transfer deadline day in January, and made 13 appearances for the Championship side.

Karanka has made three summer signings so far, adding Benfica duo Joao Carvalho and Diogo Goncalves to the capture of defender Michael Dawson.

The manager had said he hoped to make more additions before his squad report back for pre-season training next week.