Nottingham Forest Player Joins

28th June 2009

Three players have officially left the club this week; one potential target has joined another club while another player is wanted by our higher league county rivals. Not a good week if you are a Lincoln City FC fan. However, after reporting all the bad news over the past few days, we can at last find some good news.

The good news is that Lincoln City manager Peter Jackson's search for a new left-back is over after signing Joe Heath on loan from Championship club Nottingham Forest.

20-year-old Heath has a fine pedigree having progressed through the schoolboy ranks at Manchester United before his release as a 16-year-old. Unfortunately, he did not warrant an academy contract at Manchester United but regardless of this, he will have learnt a lot from his time there.

After leaving Manchester United, Heath joined Nottingham Forest. However, it was a gradual progression at Forest as he had to wait a year after signing professional terms to make his debut in August 2008, which was against Morecambe in the Carling Cup. Heath was now on the fringes of a first team place but throughout the 2008/09 season, he would be in and out of the Forest first team with his twelve appearances averaging one a month; ten of these appearances were as starts.

Heath is a versatile player having operated in central midfield and central defence at Manchester United. However, it is at left-back that Forest see his future and they predict a bright future for him.

Heath joins Lincoln on an initial six-month loan contract.

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