Nottingham Forest boss Steve Cooper has revealed that he's spoken to Chelsea about Andrey Santos.

The 19-year-old moved to the Midlands club, from Chelsea on loan, in the summer transfer window for regular football.

However, he has yet to appear for Forest, as he has not impressed enough to earn game time ahead of more senior players.

"He's obviously a really good young player, I had a really good chat with Chelsea actually this week. I didn't realize that some stuff had been written about him," Cooper told reporters this week.

"Like I said before, there's a lot of new players here and we're really trying to get the balance right in integrating all the players at the right time while trying to perform as best we can in every single game to get the results that we want and that's a process. With young players it can take longer than others to settle in.

"I'm not saying that he's not [settling in] it's just circumstantial with some of the games like for example, Brentford would have been a really good game for him to come off the bench and then we go down to 10 men and he's not feeling too well on the side so that went against him because he was definitely in our thinking for a change.

"It didn't work out that well because of how he was feeling and the red card so there's a little bit of bad luck as well but I'm really enjoying working with him and seeing him in training and then we continue with that process."