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Nottingham Forest plan final Bakary Sako offer

Nottingham Forest will test Wolves' resolve with one last offer for Bakary Sako over this final weekend of the transfer window.

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The ambitious Championship club, the summer's biggest spenders in the second tier, have targeted the Wolves winger as one of three targets to add to a squad charged with the task of returning to the Premier League.

Middlesbrough's Grant Leadbitter and Leicester's Wes Morgan have also been the subject of approaches this week but were also knocked back.

Forest's wealthy Kuwaiti owner Fawaz Al Hasawi has driven a coach and horses through the FFP rules in assembling the current squad – but he has refused to pay what he considers "over the odds" for manager Billy Davies' targets.

But with Wolves refusing to alter the £4m price tag pinned to the goal-scoring wide man with the ferocious shot, it continues to point towards an impasse.

Forest sources expect developments over the weekend but head coach Kenny Jackett's assertion that they were "nowhere near" Molineux's valuation the signs are good for Wolves fans hoping Sako will stay.

Jackett also revealed that the market for Kevin Doyle remains quiet."We have had no bids or enquiries," he said.